The fight against splogs!

If you have ever done any 'next blog'ing (clicking the 'next blog' button at the top right to see random blogs) you will know that so many of the blogs out there are full of junk. Often the blogs have just been created to generate more links to company sites to try and increase their ranking on Google!

These blogs are called spam blogs or splogs, and Blogger is apparently one of the worst offenders!

To try and stop this problem they have introduced a couple of new features to Blogger.

The first is the 'flag' link on the top navbar. This allows users to flag objectionable content, and I guess if a blog gets lots of flags they will look at removing it!
The second feature is trying to stop spam comments. You'll now have to enter the string from one of the verification images, so that automated systems wont be able to add comments.

More info here on blogcritics.org.

These both seem like good features to me (especially as I've already had to delete spam comments from this blog), but I think it's probably just the first steps on the road to removing the spam completely!

And by the way, don't you go clicking my 'flag' button :)