Before we go out flagging we need to come up with some guidelines that we can agree on.

At Blogebrity Nick mentioned what we are targeting for Flag day:

"Be careful not to flag merely dull, sweary, or ugly blogs. I'd say an abandoned one-post blog is worth flagging, but I'm open to other guidelines."

At A Whole Lotta Nothing Matthew said:

"... collectively cruise blogspot through the "next blog" button, flagging all the spam blogs that contain 10 links to a single site in every post, loaded up with keywords."

To me almost all splogs are very obvious, but when I am unsure I don't flag it. Unless the one post to a blog was nonsense or spam I don't think we want to flag it. Remember we are aiming at getting splogs removed, not just taken off the Next Blog ring. The more accurate we are the better chances of Blogger actually removing them. We don't want them to have to review sites that are not splogs or otherwise objectionable. I don't even flag blogs with a few photos with artistic nudity though they could be objectionable to some people. But if the blog is pure porn I think that should be flagged. I have seen at least one blogger who was really worried that people were going nuts flagging would flag his blog thinking it was a splog. I really didn't think it looked like a splog at all, but it was a very unusual blog. Our wiki has more of what I have written about Splogs.

My suggestions would be:

1. no legitimate content (nonsense sentances)

2. unusual percentage of links to a small number of sites

3. no content other than links (though I have seen a couple legit link blogs)

5. subdomain beginning with numbers and/or including lots of dashes or underscores

6. lots of posts with identical or nearly identical titles or content

7. blogspot member with unusually high number of blogs

I think every splog I have seen meets more than one of those conditions.

(Joe Chongq)