The dead of a big Community?

I think that all Bloggers know DotNetJunkies (DNJ), one of the biggest .NET-related communities on the web (my old home), and I'm always sad when I see people that are planning to leave the community.

Reasons to abandon a big community could be a lot (stop blogging, moving on a new community, a decision to host the blog by yourself) but seeing that lots of bloggers are planning to leave the community only because it's terrible affected by spamming is incredible (and in the last days the migrations are growing more and more).

Where are the administrators? I remember that Donny Mack was an active guy when I've started blogging on DNJ, but now? Why not take an urgent remedy against spamming and stop the migration phenomenon?

All communities around have now taken a remedy against blog spamming and different solutions are shared between people. It's not difficult to stop spamming on DNJ, it needs only some minutes to work and the voluntee to do something. Destroying a big community like this only for not having time to do something is terrible... I'd like to do something for DNJ but my helps (and other helps too) are always not listened.

What will be the final result? DNJ will be a poor community? I hope not... but remedies must be taken, soon, or the DNJ building will definitely fall down.

Print | posted on Thursday, June 30, 2005 10:21 AM

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I know this is at least your second request to help the DNJ community and what worries me, and finally caused me to jump ship, is that there is no response from Donny or anyone else releated to the DNJ community. This is not a good sign. I agree with you, I really like the DNJ community, but it seems to me that they are going in the wrong direction. I hope somebody wakes up over there and replies to all of the requests for support out there.
Left by Kevin Blakeley on Jun 30, 2005 3:48 PM

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Yes Kevin, I can't undertstand all this silence from the DNJ administrators. Spam is a big noise but remedies are here to be used. However, congratulation for your new community (just added to my favourite blogs) and good luck for your new adventure. Maybe you'll replace DNJ
Left by Stefano Demiliani on Jun 30, 2005 6:32 PM

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