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I hate spam blogs but I do not think we all should be punished.

Spinn will go the same route as Pingoat and I no longer will use the service.

But Pingoat actually calls the Google cops and reports spamblogs.  IN some degree that is a great idea, but they become judge and juror which is not always the best. 

I have yet to find out the true definition of a spam blog.  Is it up to anyone's interpretation?

Sphinn isn't so big that it cna't be monitored and I think that going nofollow only paints them as the type of people who aren't willing to work for us as their customer base.  Going nofollow free in my blog network has increased spam comments, but not by a huge percentage.  All that is required is someone reading checking submissions.  This also doesn't have to be a paid employee, trusted members would me more than happy to do it for homepage links.  Hell I would read a few thousand a day for that sort of  link juice.

All I can say about this move personally is I won't take down my sphinn buttons, but I won't be actively encouraging people to use their service either.  If someone likes the story enough to submit it, great.  If not even a front page ranking from them only draws a fraction of what I can get with mediocre digg or reddit votes.  I can also say that I am prepared to go nofollow free when we get out fot he trial phase for my pligg based ratings site mysizl.com

BTW really great posts today.  I couldn't believe how many I found I had something to say on...