Some of you may have noticed a recent spate of spam blog posts here on the community site. This is a common problem with open social networks, as anyone can join, and spammers are looking for cheap link hits for their products from high value websites.

We are dealing with it by instantly suspending the members when they join/post, deleting their content and reporting them as spammers to Ning, who run the software that powers this website.

The time it takes us to delete a spammer is a fraction of the time they spend setting up accounts an posting, so it is a battle we will win when they get tired of doing it or when Ning finds a way to stop it. But it is a battle we will win.

So please be patient with this... these things come and go...