Shankar Ganesh

Earlier, Yahoo! announced that they will be bringing major changes to MyBlogLog, a social networking portal that was acquired by them earlier, to get rid of spammers and other offensive stuff.

And they’ve begun with a little step…

Did you login to your MyBlogLog page today? If so, you should have seen something new on your profile page like this:

The MyBlogLog Blog has an long introductory note on this feature. So here’s what’s new:

From now on, people on [tag]MyBlogLog[/tag] can tag you when they visit your profile pages. For example, someone can tag me as a “blogger” by using the “Add tag” option visible on my profile page.

Your will be able to see the tags that other people used on you. If you hover over a tag, you’ll find who’s tagged you with that tag. You can delete a particular tag used on you by using the red button that appears when you hover over the tag.

People can also tag the blogs you own with this new tagging system. If you want to get rid of this tagging feature, you can use the option available under settings.

Find anybody spamming around? You can tag the person as schmoe (Social Media Optimizer ). Even if a user who’s been tagged schmoe by others deletes the tag, the MyBlogLog team will still be able to identify them and will investigate their behaviour around MyBlogLog.

You can also tag a person as a Hot Member, and if a person gets tagged frequently as a hot member, he’ll get featured.

Wading through tags is possible. To find people and blogs tagged as, for example, design, you can use the URL http://mybloglog.com/buzz/tags/design to find out. Cool.

MyBlogLog

Do you think this will keep spammers off the bay on MyBlogLog? Share your views in the comments.