Google Reacts to Splogs

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."

Comments

Re:So what happens when Rush Lambaugh gets flaged?

[goldspider]

I'm sure you'd love nothing more than to see Limbaugh and other conservative radio personalities silenced.

But wait, I thought free speech was good, and censorship bad!

I had exactly that thought when I read this article. People are going to start reporting blogs with which they disagree as spam in an attempt to have it shut down. I'm surprised (ok, not reallt) to see this kind of sentiment show up here.

useless

[nazsco]

now the spamers just have to use 'bots' to flag every blog. the noise ration will be so high it will be the same as monitoring every one as it was before the flag feature.

yep, i'm that optmistic