What do you do with a spam blog?

In General on 30/5/2005 at 10:36 am

Hmmm… somebody’s working Blogger rather nicely with this nasty online education spamblog (rel=”nofollow” used).

What do you reckon we should do with this kind of thing? I guess there’s equal potential with WPMU, any ideas?

  1. Suggestions.

    1. Ignore it

    2. Do not link to it.

    3. Do not blog about it.

    oops, you have violated #2 and #3….

    Alan Levine 31 May 2005 at 9am

  2. I know where you’re coming from but I think this is actually a big issue, they’re using quotes from here for a commercial purpose and are essentially being assisted in this by Blogger.

    The link doesn’t count as it’s a nofollow.

    I guess what I’m asking is whether Blogger should have a procedure in place to deal with this sort of thing… as should any weblog provider (a la WPMU).

    Dontcha reckon?

    James 31 May 2005 at 9am

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