I have a few blogs now, but I post the fewest blogs on Bloggerparty. Why? Because whenever I'm here, it seems like well over 50% of the content is SPLOG.

Some of it is just duplicate content. In fact, much of it. I see the exact same articles, word for word, by the same people, here and in my other blog communities. This wouldn't be such a big deal if it didn't pull the community down by lowering the ranking with Google. Also? It's just really annoying. I don't really want to comment on copy-pasted material, especially not to articles that are probably just paraphrases of news stories.

Don't get me wrong. I like the odd blog about new/weird news stories. It's just that the good ones always seem to actually be written by the authors, and always have some commentary or basis for further discussion.

Until today, I was pretty well under the impression that Bloggerparty wasn't as concerned about Sploggers as some of the other communities to which I belong (namely, Blogfeast). It felt as though here, it was pretty well being tolerated. Then I read Terry's Post, and although this isn't a direct call for action in this community, I am very glad to know that I'm not the only one who is bothered by it. I know there are some quality bloggers here, who put a lot of work and thought into their posts - I just can never find them amidst the splog!!