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Check The "Adult Content?" Setting For Your Blog, When NecessarySeptember 1

Occasionally, a blog owner may find his blog prefaced by the well known and hated warning

Content Warning

The blog that you are about to view may contain content only suitable for adults. In general, Google does not review nor do we endorse the content of this or any blog. For more information about our content policies, please visit the Blogger Terms of ServiceThis may not always be a warning set by Google. When subsequently reviewing the blog, and finding nothing objectionable, Blogger will declare the blog acceptable - but their finding will not override any setting made by the blog owner.

If the blog owner has to request review of the blog by Blogger, and wait until Blogger can conduct a review, that is time wasted. And if Blogger finds nothing objectionable, they will reset their own flag - but the owner selected flag - Settings - Basic - "Adult Content?" - will remain, and the Content Warning interstitial will remain also.

If you find your blog prefaced by a Content Warning, first check your settings - then request review after you have verified that your "Adult Content?" setting is not enabled.

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Spammers, And The New Comment Moderation SystemAugust 30

The new Blogger commenting system has been in place in many of our blogs for just over two weeks. Some bloggers, who moderate using the new system, have started to notice a marked decrease in spam, hitting our Published, and Awaiting Moderation, queues, as the filters are trained. Other bloggers, who do not moderate, are observing the opposite.

Since the new commenting system was started, my blog is getting twice as much spam as before.

Oddly enough, both results were predictable. As we identify spam comments, found both in our Awaiting Moderation and Published queues, we are helping to train the collaborative spam filters for everybody. This causes the first result, the decrease in spam.

However, the spammers will not go away without a fight. Nobody wants to return to their day job

Can I super-size your order?

once they have found the (current) path to easy riches as an Internet affiliate marketing consultant. So what to do?

The solution for some spammers is to work harder. Since not every blogger has elected to moderate comments, not every blog is using the new comment moderation system. Those blogs remaining, which are not moderated, are easy targets for the spammers. Just turn up the heat, and

Opportunities Presented By The New Commenting SystemAugust 23

Now that the new commenting system is a reality, many blogger are learning that the filters provided in the new system need training. Until the filters are trained, we will continue to see unwanted comments in our "Awaiting Moderation" folder.

Before the new system was provided, many of us who moderated comments may have gotten used to simply moderating when we had nothing else to do. We would let comments "awaiting moderation" pile up for days, before selecting and "Publishing" or "Rejecting" each one, in turn.

With the new system, what we decide may make a difference to someone else. If enough of us "vote" a given comment to be spam, other folks, later receiving the same comment, may see their version of the unwanted comment go straight to their "Spam" folder. That's how a heuristic moderation system should work. Conversely, other folks, promptly moderating their queue, may cause some of our unwanted comments, later received, to go straight into our "Spam" folder.

The bottom line is that, the sooner we moderate and click "Spam", the sooner that other bloggers will see relief. And thus encouraged, other bloggers should do likewise.

The thing to remember is that the total amount of work done, by each of us, will be the same - however we moderate. Moderating 100 comments will take us the same amount o

Diagnose Blog HijackingsAugust 22

Occasionally, content that we don't recognise may show up in our blogs. There are several different ways that the bad guys may have, in getting their unwanted contributions into our blogs.

If you read the latter article, don't find an explanation to your immediate problem there, and conclude that your blog has been hijacked, try not to panic. First, verify who has control of the blog in question. Go to Settings - Permissions, and examine the list of blog members. Do you recognise every administrator and author on the list?

If you have access to the Permissions list, and have the "Add Authors" button, you still have control of the blog. If so, the blog has not been hijacked. Now, you have to find out what has actually happened, and ensure that you retain control.

If you see an unknown administrator listed there, did you install an accessory improperly? If you see an unknown author, did an invited author maybe create a second account or invite a friend, without your permission? Can you trust all of your administrators?

Try to do better, in th

Blog*Spot Connectivity In JordanAugust 21

A few bloggers in Jordan - apparently customers of the Orange ISP - are reporting inability to access Blog*Spot URLs, with no apparent problem with non Blog*Spot, Blogger, or Google.

We have a problem rollup in Blogger Help Forum, where the problem is being explored.

If you are affected by this outage, please confirm your location, the name of your ISP, and the scope of the outage. Explicit confirmation of each individual detail, by each blogger with a problem, helps Blogger Engineers to focus on the problem - and not on speculations.

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