Thursday, August 4

Pop Ups and Spam

Just a quick operational note to everyone.

Apologies to anyone who was subjected to a barrage of pop up advertisements. I have shut down the "Invite or Seduce?" flash poll (the trend was pretty obvious anyway!) because it was this Bravenet tool that was the culprit. Because LCB is entirely volunteer and operates with no financial support we seek out free resources. Unfortunately, most of these come at a price of advertising being pushed through your website. I will continue to work to keep this to as unobstrusive a presense as possible. If you are aware of any free web-based tools which are also advertising free, please let me know.

In addition, if you run across any spam comments, please drop me a quick note by hitting the "email the Blogmeister" link in the sidebar. I found 14 spam comments this morning throughout LCB. Fortunately they were fairly benign in content, but I may have missed 1 or 2. Scouring through the comments in Blogger is not easy.

Thanks everyone! Now I can get back to reading all the great discussions you all have been posting in the last few days! WOW! Keep it up!

Dave
Your humble blogmeister.

2 comments:

Harold Jarche said...

I know what it's like - after a long weekend I had 150 comment spams waiting for me :-(

Momgen said...

I have been rejected of one site that i submitted my blog and they said:Unfortunately, we are unable to accept your entry at this time because it contains pop-ups. If you would like your blog to be considered, please remove these pop-ups from the blog and resubmit. Can you please tell what is it? I did not know that i have pop-ups.