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."

Enough already!

[Julian Morrison]

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

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

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Lock the barnyard!

[Reaperducer]

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

Slashsplogs

[mattjb0010]

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...

Re:good for google

[Anonymous Coward]

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".

Re:Oh yeah

[JimBobJoe]

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.

Re:What unit is Cuban using?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Enough already!

[TheUz]

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.

= )

Wrong posting user

[iphayd]

This should have been posted by Roland Piquepaille.

Re:Flag Roland! Oh please, oh please, oh please!

[Anonymous Coward]

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'.

Re:Thank God for Wikipedia

[rve]

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