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MyBlogLog knock out four (count em’, FOUR) points to spiritual nirvana

On Monday, we posted a list of ways that we were going to cut down on a
variety of spam-like issues on the MyBlogLog.  We finished off one of
the solutions yesterday and I am super excited to report that we are
releasing four more today!

The first point was releasing a Terms of Service, which is now listed at
the bottom of the each page on MyBlogLog.   It's a standard legal-type
document (but comparatively easy to read) that basically boils down to
"everyone wins when we're nice to each other."

The second point, by default you only see messages from your own
contacts, was launched yesterday.  See two posts down.

Next up, you can now view the contents of messages left on your profile
and community, in the email alert we send to you, along with links to
reply to and / or delete the message on the site.  If you switch your
message setting to "show contacts from everyone" then we'll send you
notification when anyone posts you a note, but with message management
built right into the email, that might be pretty cool.

Points four and five are actually a triple threat.  In order to reduce
the practice of making contacts and joining communities just to spread
their face around, we've instituted a limit of 15 community joins , 15
new contacts and 5 co-author requests in a day.  Straight up, this is a
quick-and-dirty approach and these numbers may not be the optimal
numbers.  We're going to rely on you to help us tweak these over time so
that it maintains a balance of usefulness to members while keeping
people from trying to game the system to everyone's detriment.

Lastly, and this wasn't part of the original plan, we patched a stupid
cookie hole that allowed people to impersonate other members.  While you
couldn't use this exploit to gain access to other members' accounts, you
could show up on other sites as someone else.  And that ain't cool.

So this week, hard as it was, ends up being pretty positive for
everyone.  The team busted their butts and made a bunch of significant
improvements to the service.  Can't wait to see what next week brings...