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If you haven’t been to a Blogger web site on Blogspot lately, you may not have noticed a new button on the Blogger NavBar.

It’s been out for at least a couple of weeks, a way of indicating to Google that there is something offensive on a blog hosted on Blogspot. Blogger has a page with more details: What is the “Flag” button?.

There have been a few people who have started to go through Blogspot, and click on the button for blogs that are filled with spam. I’ve even seen a suggestion making a cooperative effort to join together in an international flag day.

I’m not quite sure that it’s really the intended use of the button, but from what I’ve encountered, clicking on the “next blog” button to surf randomly through some blogs I haven’t seen before, its a problem that does need a solution. Maybe an “international flag day” isn’t a bad idea.