So much has happened and not happened around here at BlogCadre central in the last month or two, I wanted to take a moment to recognise the big stuff.

BlogCadre vacation - "thank you"
While I was busy ignoring my responsibilities and relaxing in the Philippines, heinsite really took the site under his wing and kept things moving.  rlarson also managed the thankless task of taking over editorial control and stomping spam for us.  To top it off, you guys all did your part and voted for worthy articles.  Thank you all for your help!

Server issues and overagressive spam filters
We had a bit of downtime at the start of the month when our router went down hard and needed replacing.  Sorry about that.  Also, as a few of you have noticed, we've been having problems with the spam detection system.  We get so much spam now that the filter went ballistic.  I think I've resolved the issue and registered users should no longer have any problems.  All anonymous comments will need to be manually approved, but I'm doing what I can to keep that feature and not force people to sign up if they don't wish to.

Elite Adless Edition
If you are logged in and reading this, then you probably already noticed the absolute awesomeness of an adless BlogCadre!  So that the anonymous folks don't feel left out, you guys are now getting fresh BC content with 25% less fat as well.  I completely pulled our least performing ad unit for everyone's enjoyment and since the majority of our traffic comes from organic search, I think removing ads for logged-in users will still allow us to pay for hosting and bandwidth, while offering all our members a much improved experience.

So to sum things up: thanks again everyone for making BlogCadre rock and for doing your part to push great things down the internet tubes!  ;)

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