Welcome Lockergnome Readers!
Well, lookee here! I’m now linked to from Lockergnome! Does that score me major geek points or what?
Last week, Laura Brown wrote about Blogger’s new word verification system for “potential spammer blogs”, and I directed her to the applicable Blogger Buzz articles. This week, she gave me a hat tip. Thanks, Laura!
Just by way of clarification, I’m not entirely sure a visitor flagged her blog, but it seems to be the most likely possibility. Blogger’s spam-flagging system is so vague (it’s just a button that says, “Flag?”), new users may think they’re clicking on something that will “flag” the blog for their own future reading—the way it works in an e-mail reader. “Oh, look at that! I can flag this blog, and maybe Blogger will list it in a “must read” page for me! That’s so nifty!”
Perhaps Blogger ought to clear up the meaning of that button a bit…
EDIT: Well, it looks like Blogger has cleared it up! Now there’s a little tooltip-style menu that appears when you hover over the link. It says, “Notify Blogger of questionable content. What does this mean?” which is much clearer. Thanks, Blogger staff!
