One of the issues that we knew from we'd have to deal with from the outset of building this network is how to deal with spam within the site. There is often fine line when it comes to classifying what is spam, especially on a site with a central focus on marketing. But, I think there obvious cases are where the content is blatently mislabeled or there is absolutly no redeeming value to any target audience. For example there probably has been a half dozen blog posts made in the last week filled with simply a long list a of key words and offsite links, with a clear and sole intent is to spam search engines. Hosting that type of spam on this site can have a very negative impact on this community as a whole.
In these cases where there it is pretty black and white, we will delete the posts, deduct points and notify the poster with a warning. If they continue this practice after being warned their account will be disabled.
On posts where the area is more grey we will usually notify that poster and let them know what they are doing may not be in the best interest of the network. But we also ask that members of the community help us do this if they see someone they personally know writing spammy posts.
On a side note, today we had several pranksters create false profiles on the site which we rapidly disabled. Somewhat suprisingly this is the first time since launch 5 weeks ago which we had to do that, and it is something we feel we'll be able to monitor and respond to fairly rapidly.
We would appreciate any feedback from members of this community on this issue.
-Matt Heaton (CEO)
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