Spam blogs in tag surfer
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Am I the only one finding a reasonably high number of spam blogs in tag surfer? I find it pretty frustrating to the point where I’ll probably stop using it. I spend half the time on that page reporting spam. It’s like blogger! *shudder*
I suppose there’s nothing the staff can do, which is why I’m just posting it here so I can vent.
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And the key word in Mark’s reply is “reported”. If you see a spammer when surfing, then click on the “blog info” in the right of the blue wordpress bar at the top of your screen and select “report as spam”.
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Well sacredpath, as pointed out in my post, I spend half the time on that page reporting spam”. It’s just that I don’t find it worth my time in the long run to spend the rest of my tag surfing days reporting spam. Sours the experience, ya know.
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I love the tag surfer because it brings the splogs forward where I can see them and report them.
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We do a lot of work to prevent and remove the garbage.
I certainly appreciate every report even though I cannot reply with a thanks to each and every email.
It is a problem we are actively addressing – we want it gone too.
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I really hate to bitch about this again, but in the WP.com Tag Surfer if there’s a link next to the blog name to mark a blog as spam, then there should also be a link to mark a blog as Mature. I am not interested in gifting this person’s blog with a hit by going to the site and then clicking on the Admin Bar at the top of the blog.
If you need particulars, you’ll find her under the “Knit” Tag. (NOT work safe, to say the least.)
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It won’t actually matter if you give her a hit if the blog is deleted before midnight GMT, when you think about it. Meanwhile, there it is, still gathering many, many hits because you didn’t report it.
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@rc-OK-then let me be more clear about this. Call me a prude if you like, but for the good of WP.com or no, I’m not interested in surfing pron.
The WP.com Tag Surfer is no longer part of my surfing experience. Fini
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I see; it was my understanding that you’d already seen the blog in question through your tag surfer, so clicking to report it wouldn’t have exposed you to anything you hadn’t already seen, it would just have prevented you from seeing it in future. My mistake.
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Technically, you are correct. But since I mentioned that the Tag Surfer is no longer a part of my WP.com browsing experience, I won’t be seeing it any more anyway.
Peace.
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Basically spam blogs or splogs are blogs that post garbage and are either created to promote affiliated sites or to increase standings in search engines like Google. Usually they’ll link to sites associated with the splog in some way to make money, and you’ll often see them running lots of ads and scraping other blogs’ content (taking large samples or an entire article and posting it on their blog). If you think of them like leaches, you’re not far wrong.
If you ever stumble across them at WP.com, report them via blog info > report as spam… we all keep watch for them, but every pair of eyes helps.
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Hi Cjwriter~
Sorry I was away for the entire day.
In my idea, a blog is just some web space for us to write anything. Haha…
Spam blog…?
I have to confess if I were to see one, I’d not know how to differentiate.
When I go to other blogs, I usually read abit, pick up some idea, and make myself visible through comments.
Guess I’d rely on you experts to deal with Sblog.Scope.
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Hello Sacred~
What’s Wikipedia???
Never mind. Other than my blogs and some forum and basic google, yahoo and such…
You have to understand, that there are those who are virtually not-bothered with IT that much beyond enjoying the kicks of it. Haha…And I’m one of those. My line is not in the IT.
Though, I bravely started one forum… waliao and it kena technical problem. :(
Sad…For fun! And for socialise!
Scope.
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Wow. I’m not sure what you guys did Mark, but I’ve been through my tag surfer twice today and — no spam blogs! Woo! It was great. Thanks so much for doing whatever you did.
@sacredpath
I see, I see. Sorry for my short response, then.
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