Comments on: It’s time for Google to act on Blogger

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» Surrending to spam blogs? The Blog Herald: more blog news more often — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:10:43 +0000

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» Beware of Blog Apartheid The Blog Herald: more blog news more often — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 03:44:22 +0000

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By: Amit Agarwal

Amit Agarwal — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 05:47:09 +0000

John (Syntagma)

Yes, thanks for pointing that out.

Blogger added a new feature and broke my layout.

Bad QA.

By: John (SYNTAGMA)

John (SYNTAGMA) — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:42:52 +0000

Amit, go to Blogger Buzz, there’s a quick fix for that ~ a long term solution is on the way.

I set up a new Blogger blog a few weeks ago and had to enter what I call “rubber words” (can’t recall the tech term). Doesn’t that prevent auto-spam?

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By: Amit Agarwal

Amit Agarwal — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 05:23:48 +0000

And now Blogger is inserting div clear tags in blogger HTML code which just screwed up my blog layout.

I wrote to blogger but got no reply

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/06/blogger-template-inserting-div-clear.html

By: site admin

site admin — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 02:45:34 +0000

Just on note of the “its not limited to Blogger” comments, no its not, but as far as I’m aware there are no programs that can auto-spam using Spaces, and any attempts to set up a spam blog on Spaces would have to be done manually: sure some might but for the vast majority of these cretins why would they do it manually on Spaces if they can do it automatically on Blogger? There are programs that auto-spam to WordPress and MT blogs, but both require paid hosting so aren’t nearly as popular amongst spammers as Blogger.

By: John (SYNTAGMA)

John (SYNTAGMA) — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:31:41 +0000

Biz Stone recently wrote that Google are working on a Business Blogger. They’ve also added a 300Mb photo hosting facility to Blogger and new rich-text editing gizmos are appearing all the time. It doesn’t seem like they’re planning to dump Blogger in the foreseeable future. It would be interesting to see the profit and loss account of Blogger with everything rolled in, including spin-offs. As a Blogger blogger I’d be very disappointed if they scuppered the whole thing. It would cause uproar around the world, and Google would be left with its mojo dripping down its corporate chin.

By: Itinerant Librarian

Itinerant Librarian — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:28:12 +0000

I am sure the problem is not limited to Blogger, but Blogger is as bad as they come. That detail of trying to use the blog tools surf feature to locate other blogs is just awful. I gave up on using it after a while, getting tired of just finding spam blogs. As for using them, well, what can I say? Easy and free for someone starting out, but as soon as I can afford to, I will likely move. What does disturb me are the thieves stealing content from legitimate blogs.

By: Greg Linden

Greg Linden — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:37:31 +0000

Is the problem really limited to Blogger? I've seen many spam blogs on Typepad and MSN Spaces as well. Do you think that the over 10M weblogs created on MSN Spaces in the last six month are all legit? That the problem is limited to Google's Blogger?

By: Comic Strip Blogger

Comic Strip Blogger — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:12:38 +0000

I wanted to add that blog in question included explicitly defamatory/libel statements to be seen with naked eye – they were not vague.

By: Comic Strip Blogger

Comic Strip Blogger — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:09:33 +0000

On top of spammer blogs there are also libel/slander blogs on Blogger. Interesting Google refuses to remove such blogs. In other words: you can publish totally defamatory blog about anybody and you will be sure that it will not be removed if placed on Google’s blogging servers. And their suggestin “contact somebody by email” is nonsense because obviously people who defame are not publishing any emails. See below email from Blogger suport team.

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Thank you for writing regarding content posted on blogspot.com. Although
we host that site, we are not in a position to adjudicate whether the
content is defamatory or not.

Accordingly, consistent with section 230(c) of the Communications Decency
Act, Blogger does not remove material in response to allegations of
defamation. In cases where a contact email address is listed on the page,
we recommend working directly with the author to have this information
removed or changed.

We are sorry we cannot assist you further at this time.

Sincerely,
Blogger Support Team