I am not a prude by any means. Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl “malfunction” did not shock me. However, the porn photos masquerading as profile pictures for porn spammers that Yahoo allows into MyBlogLog I do find irritating.
The thing is I have to admire their ingenuity. Yahoo states quite clearly that “spam” in their opinion is solely tied to email messaging. It is not tied to profile pictures. So what does a smart spammer do? Create a robot that while active in MBL visits several hundred blogs. Thus their promotional picture shows up on the MBL widget for that community as a “reader”.
Now it would be a different matter if the site was listed as being open to adult content. However this problem occurs on sites, like here at ReveNews, which are not listed as open to adult content.
An email to Yahoo’s Customer Service has gone unanswered for three days. Not surprising since Yahoo is notoriously bad when it comes to cleaning up its own space. I am also reasonably certain that this slow response is not a record by any means.
MyBlogLog has all the elements of a really great tool. Blog owners, especially those whose content is more news orientated, will find the oversight that allows these spammers in as a poor reflection on their community.
Yahoo needs to realize that in certain cases a picture can equal a thousand words of spam. Until then actual readers can get their news and their g-string pictures at the same time.

About Angel Djambazov
Born in Bulgaria, Angel Djambazov has spent his professional career in the fields of journalism and online marketing. In his journalistic career he worked as an editor on several newspapers and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Wyoming Homes and Living Magazine. Later his career path led to online marketing where while working at OnlineShoes he earned the Affiliate Manager of the Year (2006) award at the Affiliate Summit, and In-house Manager of the Year (2006) award by ABestWeb.
For four years Angel served as OPM for Jones Soda for which he won his second Affiliate Manger of the Year (2009) award at Affiliate Summit.
Currently Angel serves as OPM for KEEN Footwear and MedicalRecords.com. His former clients include: Dell, Real Networks, Jones Soda, Intelius, Graphicly, Chrome Bags, Onlineshoes.com, Vitamin Angels, The Safecig, and Bag Borrow or Steal.
Angel is the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Publisher for ReveNews.com and ReveNews.org.
Angel lives north of Seattle, spending his free time reading up on obscure scientific references made by his wife MGX, while keeping up with a horde of cats and a library of books.
You can find Angel on Twitter @djambazov.