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Spam-a-lama-dama

Have you ever gotten this message:
    

     Hey, love your site, check out mine at http://spammer.com/spamalot

Sure, we all have...  And most of us are quick to report the obvious spam (and rightly so).
The challenge is that while many of us are quite annoyed about these sort of messages, some users like the give and take of these exchanges.  We've seen communities grow and actually flourish by these seemingly impersonal 'spam-like' intros.  In fact some of these have grown into communities that bounce personal communiques back and forth hourly. 

So we begin to see sites that you and I may be uninterested in checking out are getting widespread membership and full-fledged communities are borne.
So, what to do?

There are a few methods we are investigating, even as I write, that could help us weed out members who consistently game the system.

One such method we will be employing today.  The way that it works is to put a cap on the number of messages a user can send per day.  The caveat here is that if that user receives a message back, which of course denotes conversation, the person's daily limit will increase.  For us, this seems a worthy method to try.

The limit will be 20 initially, and if we see that it is just not enough then we'll increase it.  Again, your feedback on this is vital for us to know if the message cap method is successful.  Please do not hesitate to tell us if we are off our rocker.  Don't hold back (I know you won't) because we need the help of our users more than you realize.

MyBlogLog is first and foremost a community.  We exist to serve you and we need to know how we are doing there.  I look forward to hearing how we are doing.  Just be gentle, remember, I'm new here.