Many visitors to Hadithuna have expressed interest in how the “Blogs of the Moment” feature on the homepage is calculated. While the technical details of how it comes together is a different story, the ability to be one of the featured “Blogs of the Moment” is something every Hadithuna blogger should understand. 

On Hadithuna we have four different types of classifications of Blogs. Blogs can either be Public, Private, Mature, or both Public and Mature. You all will recall when you signed up that Hadithuna asked whether you wanted your blog to be private or “indexed by Google and listed throughout this site.” If you selected “yes” your blog will have been marked Public, and if not, then Private.

The distinction is of course an important one. Private bloggers may be writing for selected eyes only, while Public bloggers may be itching for that extra exposure. So why aren’t all Public bloggers automatically being featured as “Blogs of the Moment” on this site? They would be, if it weren’t for Spam Artists.

The problem is Spammers always create new blogs and mark them public, in an effort to get as much exposure as possible before getting caught. One way we’ve managed to circumvent the issue of spam being featured on our homepage has been to only allow those blogs that have been marked as both Private and Mature to appear there. 

In this context Mature obviously does not indicate pornographic or sexually-related content, it simply means “public-ready.” Hadithuna admins regularly scour the new (and old) signups at Hadithuna to check for whether the blog is non-spammy, thoughtful, and predominantly in english. If it fits all of the above then the blog is flagged as Mature and content published from it can be featured on the homepage and in our sitewide RSS feed.