Blogger Does Not Censor Comment Content

Periodically, in Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?, we see a naive query.

How do I report a person who posts nasty things, in comments, on my blog?

And the unfortunate response here is

You can't report unwanted comments. There is no comment censoring agency.

Blogger considers comments to be protected as freedom of speech. Outside of moderation for spam - which is a collaborative activity - comments are up to you, the blog owner, to treat as you please.

You, the blog owner, may choose what level of authentication to require, from each commenter.

• Anyone - includes Anonymous Users
• Registered Users - includes OpenID
• Users with Google Accounts
• Only members of your blog

You, the blog owner, may choose how to moderate each non spam comment.

• Moderate before publishing.
  • Delete
  • Publish.
• Moderate after publishing.
  • Delete.
  • Don't delete.

Those are your choices. Blogger won't censor, nor do they accept reports about, undesirable content.

Since Blogger leaves these decisions to the blog owners, Blogger also won't un censor content. There's no comment review process, similar to spam review, where they re activate comments when properly requested by the would be comment publisher.

If you post comments which are not appreciated by the owners of the blogs where you post your comments, and you end up labeled a spammer, that's your problem which you must bear.

Like blocking specific viewers, blocking specific commenters, who choose to make unwanted comments, will be as productive as a game of Whac-A-Mole. Blogger chooses to not play that game.

Moderate the comments on your blog, because Blogger won't do that for you. Moderate, and help train the filters. Don't moderate, and accept the decisions made by other blog owners.

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