In my previous post, someone pointed out that I should flag the offending blogs. I hadn’t previously been aware of this feature. But here’s the interesting thing.

The blogs that are doing this (at least the few I’ve looked at) have no flag. Somehow, they’ve come up with a way to disable it. And it seems to me that that could be their undoing. Now all that Blogspot has to do is autosearches of all their blogs and see which ones’ flags are disabled, and zap them.

Am I missing something here?

I may reenable blogspot comments later today, just to see if they’ve given up on me yet, but I hope that the folks are Blogspot are working this problem. I’m dismayed that I’ve not received a single response to several emails to their abuse address.

[Update a few minutes later]

Well, what I’m missing here is that there’s no requirement to have a flag, and only the blogs that are using some variant on the out-of-the-box template seem to have them. For example, Arcturus doesn’t have one. So I guess that won’t work. I knew it was too easy to be true.

But that answers the question about flagging them…

I also note that when one goes to www.blogspot.com, there’s no obvious place to report abuse, so if they don’t respond to emails to abuse@blogspot.com, I’ve no idea how to report these things.

Once again, I recommend that serious bloggers get off of Blogspot.

[Update about 10:15 AM EST]

I’ve reenabled blogspot to comment and ping, and so far, so good. It may be that after I shut them down yesterday, they’ve gone off to greener pastures.