This is kind of a follow-up to the previous post. I have researched the issue of Bloggr’s new “flag” button a bit deeper and this is what I’ve found out.
First of all, although formally Blogger is owned by Google these are two separate entities more or less independent in their operation – so a blog getting flagged and unlisted by Blogger doesn’t mean anything as to it getting indexed/ranked in Google itself. Secondly, as the Blogger’s help article on the Flag button points out,
This means the blog won’t be promoted on Blogger.com but will still be available on the web — we prefer to keep in mind that one person’s vulgarity is another’s poetry. Or something like that.
After some more reseach, I have noticed that the “Flag” button indeed only appears on the newly updated blogs, while those that haven’t been updated recently still don’t have it in their toolbar. Which of course means that all the abandoned blogs are there to stay – well done Blogger folks. If you were running out of space and cancelling blogs for that reason (like I suggested in one of my previous posts), this is definitely not a solution to your problem.
Meanwhile, the Blogger folks leave it to themselves to decide your blog’s life if they choose to do so:
For more serious cases, such as spam blogs or sites engaging in illegal activity, we will continue to enforce our existing policies (removing content and deleting accounts when necessary).
As a sidenote, imagine some eejit with a bit too much time on their hands just browsing from blog to blog clicking “Flag” on each one – how will Blogger handle that?
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