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Google Reacts to Splogs

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the spam-is-everywhere dept.

labnol writes "Recently, Mark Cuban of Icerocket made the accusation that Blogger is by far the worst offender when it comes to Spam Blogs. Now Google Blogger is introducing Word Verification for user comments to prevent comment spam and another feature called Flag As Objectionable where users can report blogs with questionable content. Google appears to be listening."

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  1. Enough already! by Julian+Morrison · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please neologize without sounding like you're spitting on the floor.

    1. Re:Enough already! by TheUz · · Score: 3, Funny

      For people like me with a week vocabulary:

      That should be weak, my friend.

      A week is seven days. This post, correcting your misuse of the word, "week," is weak.

      = )

      --
      ^..^
  2. Flag Roland! Oh please, oh please, oh please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It doesn't get much more spammish or objectionable than that!

    1. Re:Flag Roland! Oh please, oh please, oh please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Flag Roland! Oh please, oh please, oh please!

      Given the rest of the subject line, it's kinda obvious why I misread the first word as 'Flog'.

  3. Lock the barnyard! by Reaperducer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lock the barn. Hide you farm animals. The pigs are nervous.
    This could lead to more cases like this one.

    --
    -- I'm old enough to have lived through six different meanings of the word "hacker."
  4. Slashsplogs by mattjb0010 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mark Cuban of Icerocket made the accusation that Blogger is by far the worst offender when it comes to Spam Blogs.

    Mark Cuban of Icerocket, allow me to introduce you to Roland Piquepaille of Slashdot...

  5. Re:good for google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The number of such blogs is enormous -- most counts put it between half and 2/3.

    I'm not sure I'd call any number less than one "enormous".

  6. Re:Oh yeah by JimBobJoe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Take a look at this this for example(don't want to go there with IE, BTW)

    I have never wanted to go to a website so much after I saw that warning.

    After I submit this post, I'm restarting Mozilla, as that site has caused it to memory leak worse than the Exxon Valdez.

  7. Re:What unit is Cuban using? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Consider that each relatively new (as most Splogs are) blog takes up on average 3 KB of space on a hard drive (size of average e-mail text spam, which is then uplaoded to Splog),

    and based on the fact that Blogger.com uses Maxtor MX830HA hard drives with an average surface capacity of 300 MB per platter (x20 = 60 GB),

    each platter being 212 tracks,

    so each track holds 1.4 MB, and take the radius of 3 inches times 2pi to get circumference of approx 19 inches, which is 48 cm, or about 500 mm.

    So you have 500 mm holding 1.4 MB, which means 0.0028 MB per mm, or 2.8 KB per mm.

    So 1mm = ~ a single Splog.

  8. Wrong posting user by iphayd · · Score: 3, Funny

    This should have been posted by Roland Piquepaille.

  9. Re:Thank God for Wikipedia by rve · · Score: 2, Funny

    When i posted the link, it redirected to the page for 'Penis' !