tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24069595.post7009692986423414195..comments2024-03-27T04:17:20.550-07:00Comments on The Real Blogger Status: Google+ Comments Lack Controls For Moderation And NotificationNitecruzrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08069634565746003311noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24069595.post-10891957892858736532013-06-24T03:25:59.614-07:002013-06-24T03:25:59.614-07:00D.B.,
Google+ is not Google's first attempt i...D.B.,<br /><br />Google+ is not Google's first attempt in the battle of social networking.<br /><br />Prior attempts included Buzz, Orkut, and Wave. Which came first, I can't remember. I looked at all 3, long ago - and found no real interest in either one.<br /><br />Google+ is much better than all 3 - and one which has had obvious influence on FaceBook, the <b>current</b> social networking leader. Both Google+ Circles, and Google+ Stream, are features which FaceBook had to add into their design.<br /><br />I really think that Google+ has a future, which far exceeds the future which Buzz, Orkut, and Wave ever had, combined.<br /><br />I similarly think that Blogger has a future - and will complement Google+, for a long time. You can do so much more than Google+, in a blog. As long as WordPress - and similar blogging platforms and personal web space building platforms - are around, Blogger will be too.<br /><br />MHO, anyway.Nitecruzrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08069634565746003311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24069595.post-14418374538795999482013-06-24T03:12:10.647-07:002013-06-24T03:12:10.647-07:00D.B.,
That is an intriguing issue - and one which...D.B.,<br /><br />That is an intriguing issue - and one which should be explored, at length, in <a href="http://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!categories/blogger/something-is-broken" rel="nofollow">Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken</a>.<br /><br />I briefly mentioned the effect of a team blog membership, in my discussion of <a href="http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2013/03/google-circles-is-replacing-following.html" rel="nofollow">Google+ Following</a>. I think your scenario is even more interesting - and <b>really needs exploration</b>.<br /><br /><a href="http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2013/03/google-circles-is-replacing-following.html" rel="nofollow">http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2013/03/google-circles-is-replacing-following.html</a>Nitecruzrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08069634565746003311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24069595.post-18571570543848770682013-06-23T20:31:48.717-07:002013-06-23T20:31:48.717-07:00One big disadvantage to using Google+ comments is ...One big disadvantage to using Google+ comments is that it turns your blog into a closed system: only people with Google+ accounts can leave comments. Everybody else gets to wail and gnash their teeth.<br /><br />I've always allowed anybody to comment on my blogs (with moderation turned on), but I'm in a group blog (which I founded) where one member has elected to use her Google+ account as her Blogger identity - and has inadvertently switched the commenting system to Google+. Now I can't switch it back (without switching over my own Blogger identity to my Google+ identity), and she can't seem to figure out how to switch it back herself without doing some damage of some sort. I'm in a bit of a pickle - our blog is intended to be accessed and commented upon by people with a wide range of technological know-how, not just those in the Google+ club. But until we can figure out how to undo this safely, we're stuck.<br /><br />On top of everything else, I'm just waiting for the day Google announces that Google+ is going the way of Google Reader. At that point, all these blogs tied into Google+ will have a problem. (Unless, of course, Blogger goes the way of Google Reader first.)D.B. Echohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01797128570217627410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24069595.post-60226939285437673692013-06-23T19:01:17.711-07:002013-06-23T19:01:17.711-07:00D.B.,
You ask several interesting questions.
The...D.B.,<br /><br />You ask several interesting questions.<br /><br />The advantages to Google+ Comments would be any advantages which come from further integration of our blogs into Google+. These advantages can be debated further.<br /><br />I have not moved this blog to Google+ Comments, because I don't appreciate the <a href="http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2013/05/comment-moderation-in-blogger-blogs.html" rel="nofollow">lack of comment moderation</a>, and other control options, such as described above. I like the dashboard based comment moderation wizard. Other blog owners may agree with me.<br /><br />Of course, even as this blog remains with Blogger Comments, I know that anybody may be sharing this article, and others, from this blog - and I have no way of knowing what's being shared, since I am not in everybody's Circles.<br /><br /><a href="http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2013/05/comment-moderation-in-blogger-blogs.html" rel="nofollow">http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2013/05/comment-moderation-in-blogger-blogs.html</a>Nitecruzrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08069634565746003311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24069595.post-32113495076281646902013-06-23T15:58:12.932-07:002013-06-23T15:58:12.932-07:00Sooo...how DO we deal with spam comments now? Do w...Sooo...how DO we deal with spam comments now? Do we just need to patrol all of our past posts, one at a time, to see if any of them are being clogged up with spam or links to undesirable sites?<br /><br />What advantages actually exist to using Google+ comments? ...and for that matter, why aren't you using the Google+ format on this blog?D.B. Echohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01797128570217627410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24069595.post-76314953678746923552013-06-22T23:29:01.721-07:002013-06-22T23:29:01.721-07:00I'm the one who asked on blogger help forum (y...I'm the one who asked on blogger help forum (you replied) about handling the Blogger spam folder, because I get about 200-300 spams auto-placed into the spam folder but thn for some time I've been getting 150-200 "posible" spams per day that that "await moderation." <br /><br /> I looked for you to find a way to thank the developers who suddenly found a fix for this. <br /> Instead of 200 possibles in a day that I had to read through (bad for eyes and mind), I am -- as of 2 days ago -- seeing only maybe 5 a day! <br /><br /> That's a huge change. Instead of just writing when I have a complaint, I just want to let them know this work was noticed. Any way to do that? Or maybe you can pass it along...<br /><br /> As for what you describe with G+ comments in blogs, yes, it's really a concern, and I'd asked about the seeming lack of moderation before they're published. Then I opted out of using it for that reason. <br /><br />But, am very happy about the way blogger 'possible' spam comments needing moderation by the blog owner have been cut way down by Blogger team.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.com