Spammers, etc.

ahhh, in my younger days...

Um, I think it is a direct corrolation to the site traffic. Many more people = many more assholes, blog whores, spammers and dumb Anon Fanatic comments

Well, those comment spammers...like the guys who put up comments about this BS or that (website stuff...or something about online games, i dunno) have just been banned As for Blog "whoring" as you call it, that's relatively new...

I remember the days when a blog whore faced immediate castration. The good old days.

Ya like Jut said about the founders, it's all relative. Compared to the number of regular and quality active conributors in the community there is a small amount of trouble. Many sites who attempt to be AGM or similar are overrun with crap, you know like that site about the Joker in Chicago.

bobbyjim's toilet bowl article got linked on SI.com today

The problem is that a lot of the admins are either busy with real life, the founders who are busy making sure the site continues to function, or students. I think it might be time to add another couple of admins to the pool

That's what happens when you get popular....

As the site grows you will find spammers and hackers and other BS to deal with. There is no way to shut them all out, just have to suck it up.

The chair is falling victim to their own success. But as AGM Linebacker I will take every step possible to insure that spammers are put in their place.

Clearly global warming is the cause.

Honestly, the amount of blogwhoring is probably down -- it's just that now, we don't ignore it as much as we used to.

Spam -- well, it's probably message board spam. I don't get much if any, which is weird. When I noticed Caro11, I banned him.

Weird anon comments... uh... well:

• Some of it is you guys logged out, trying to be funny. (Yes, we can tell.)
• MOST of it is because of incoming traffic increasing. It's not me recruiting -- it's the articles getting linked and the search engines finding our stuff better.

Spam? Bloody vikings.

This site just gave me an idea.

Honestly, it's probably just because traffic is up. Didn't one of the articles get on SI.com? Why do you allow Anonymous posting? Make them log in and register at least.

also because articles are getting put on sites like fark: http://www.a...of_Beers#end

Perhaps a spam bot is required? Just for obvious stuff?

I blame the Republican Party