{"id":342,"date":"2007-04-27T06:03:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T22:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/social-traffic\/mybloglog-on-the-spam-trail\/"},"modified":"2007-04-27T06:03:53","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T22:03:53","slug":"mybloglog-on-the-spam-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/social-traffic\/mybloglog-on-the-spam-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"MyBlogLog On the Spam Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was somewhat happy (in a perverse way) when I saw this message in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mybloglog.com\/buzz\/members\/andreww\/\" title=\"mybloglog andrew wee\" target=\"_blank\">MyBlogLog<\/a> message center. It read:<\/p>\n<p><em>I am the granddaughter of the General Abirudhdklf and recently $20 million has come into my possession<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A-ha! Had the MyBlogLog guardians fallen asleep?<\/p>\n<p>Granted it&#8217;d fallen into my &#8220;Messages from Everyone&#8221; box (which is less filtered than regular messages).<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;d been about to highlight this infiltrator which had slipped through the spam detection cracks when I noticed that the message has mysterious vanished when I checked the account.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the profile has been deleted.<\/p>\n<p>So kudos to Eric and the MyBlogLog development team.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder though, clicking on the &#8220;Report Spam&#8221; button to report a spamming MyBlogLog user results in a &#8220;mailto:&#8221; command which pulls up your email client to send an email to MyBlogLog&#8217;s customer service.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This seems rather clunky. Wouldn&#8217;t it be easier to flag the user and have their username show up in a queue for user review?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps MyBlogLog could keep this in mind for their next incremental or version upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was somewhat happy (in a perverse way) when I saw this message in my MyBlogLog message center. It read: I am the granddaughter of the General Abirudhdklf and recently $20 million has come into my possession&#8230; A-ha! Had the MyBlogLog guardians fallen asleep? Granted it&#8217;d fallen into my &#8220;Messages from Everyone&#8221; box (which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[76],"tags":[636,354,635,1807,634],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}