1. Captcha, email-verification… they would all help to some extent.  But I’ve been saying for a while(link: http://www.zoliblog.com/blog/_archives/2005/8/16/1143354.html) that a combination of technical and economic means would have better chances of fighting SPLOGs.   “Free” does not have to be free .. just affordable.  Would real bloggers be deterred by a $1 fee?  The spammers who create blogs by the thousands automatically would certainly feel the impact.

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Zoli Erdos

2. Yes, I've been noticing the same thing and referred to it in my blog today:

http://www.philb.com/blog/2005/10/huge-explosion-of-splogs.htm

I've been with Blogger since you had to play money for a pro account. I paid because I thought it was a really good product, very easy to use and I liked it. I still like it; it's still easy to use, and unfortunately has become *too* easy to use. I'd happily go back to paying some money, or have some way of using it that confounds spammers. Seeing it go down the tubes would be disappointing, but it can't go on this way. Paid, captcha - anything like that is worth a try!

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Phil Bradley

3. Yup, it's filling many of my searches, and that's a real bummer. Also making search to RSS less atractive to get clients to adopt. Tag search is one remedy. I'd been taking it upon myself to spend a little time clicking thought to those blogs and flagging them as spam too. I want sliders on my search engines to let me determine the bar for a source to show up on my results. Ranging from "Never been flagged as spam "through "has been flagged as spam by less than 10 unique IPs." I really think the network effect can solve this problem if enabled, and we don't have to rely on shutting anybody down.

Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Marshall Kirkpatrick