Blogger Cannot Render Advance Alarm Of Deletion

One of the to a greater extent than intriguing tales, inwards the never ending saga of malware as well as spam interdiction, would accept to hold out the confusion almost the proper physical care for for deleting or locking blogs, when suspected of hosting malware or spam. We periodically see, equally operate of a "Please unlock my blog!" asking inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, the naive suggestion.

It would hold out improve if Blogger Support had straightaway alerted me of this problem, earlier deleting my blog!

The irony hither is that, from a purely "customer service" viewpoint, I accept to grip amongst the regulation here.

It would hold out better, if Blogger Support could create this. Like many "it would hold out better" observations, this is in all probability never going to happen.

What would happen, if Blogger were to render advance notification of whatever malware / spam classification? Many spammers would for certain appreciate this choice - to take the dodgy content, earlier the weblog is deleted or locked. The typical spammer would accept several options.

1. Remove the dodgy content, immediately.
2. Copy the entire weblog to a instant weblog inwards the spam weblog farm, as well as expect until receiving advance notification for that blog. Lather, rinse, repeat.
3. Possibly, create nothing. Later, claim indignantly

   I never got the notification!

   and promise that the sort souls at Blogger Support would plow over him roughly other chance, since he had non been properly warned.

Option #1, used wisely, could fifty-fifty hold out used to "map" out the electrical current spam mitigation strategy, as well as allow spammers release hundreds of spam blogs, staying below the radar. Essentially, nosotros would encounter self whitelisting of spammy blogs. What spammer would non larn for that, inwards a second?

Besides the spammers benefiting hugely from advance notification, not all genuine weblog owners would benefit. Not every weblog possessor uses a properly registered Blogger account, or volition read e-mail from Blogger Support.

So, nosotros accept 2 downsides to the choice of advance notice.

• Spammers would dearest it.
• Not every non spammer would appreciate it.

I, for one, don't encounter an upside - or for certain not whatever upside amongst benefit to counter the downsides.

In Utopia, at that topographic point would hold out no spammers, as well as no require for whatever of this. Unfortunately, the Internet volition never hold out operate of Utopia.

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