1. I am being bombarded with loads of comment spam at my old blog http://ls-l.blogspot.com I now get about 15 comments every day!

I made a blog post about this
http://linuxlala.geekybodhi.net/index.php?title=google_blogger_time_for_another_spam_sur_2&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

I am all for the death of blogger.

Posted at 4:52AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Shashank Sharma

2. BlogSpot? I don't think Google is investing any thing more in blogspot now. The platform is so old-fashioned compared to the other competitors.

Posted at 4:52AM on Dec 19th 2005 by yi

3. i think they are already doing what they can. The blog flag automatically makes a word verification on sites.
Although this will probably pit one splogger against another and they will constantly flag each other's accounts.
google is in a tight spot with all the spotlight on them. Tough to be fair and not censoring.
I think tags will help with search reulst if blogger search incorporates them.

Posted at 4:52AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Steve Media

4. Google manages to filter Pr0n pretty good from the web search, so they probably can if they really wanted to build some automatically spam detection in it, but it would probably take a human to look it over before actually deleting a blog.

Posted at 4:52AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Tak

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Posted at 4:52AM on Dec 19th 2005 by A smart Christmas: nice present, great idea!

6. Kill blogspot? Uh, no. Maybe their tech folk can get up off their asses and find a way to eliminate these stupid fake blogs? And while their at it, they could design a spellcheck for blogspot users that actually fucking works?
Well, that's a longshot.

Posted at 4:52AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Nate

7. The comment filtering for blogger was one of the best things they could have done. If you are genuine, and even if you add comments to promote your site, I think it's going to be more worthwhile for a real human being to do it, and to make it a real comment on the content. That way it'll be read, taken seriously, and then a link will be followed. Spam is being filtered so drastically anyway... if Google hasn't started filtering spam out of Blogspot, they're probably not going to, considering how aggressive they were about it in Gmail and Blogger.



Just my two cents!

Posted at 6:08AM on Dec 28th 2005 by Stephanie McKern

8. I used to have a blog at blogspot, but it became too much of a headache to delete all the comment spamming I decided to move onto using Joomla. It's an excellent CMS with all the rss syndication we are used to. I think recently, blogger has implemented some kind of a trigger so when the blog is posted to too often, it puts all future posts into Draft. Then the blog owner has to submit their blog in for review to remove the image verification. One program that can tip the trigger is rsstoblog.



Chris

Posted at 11:27PM on Dec 30th 2005 by Chris