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[Mattu]

John,

You are looking at this as you do everything in life -- how it benefits you.

I'm looking at this from the benefit of iHub. I've found that I can weed out spammers, idiots, "...whizzabangs..." as you call them if they are limited to 3 posts. They make the first post and it's a RB-standard post, they are gone. No questions asked. If they make a decent, iHub post, I bump up the account.

Lately, because of the volume on my screen, I've had to forgoe some of my normal account qualifications before approval. Not so anymore. The site is growing and growing well. I want to keep the quality high and noise low.

There's a way to do that -- go back to the way I was doing it. I only see accounts that need approval after at least one post is made, which greatly reduces the number of accounts to go through, but in no way inhibits their features as a free user. I can evaulate their account information, other things, and their post quality at that point.

It does nothing but improve the long-term quality of community.

Further, this new process was incorporated today. It's not like I'm applying it just to your referrals. It applies to all new accounts...So I don't know why you are kicking up a fuss.

If you are truly interested in iHub and the quality folks that make up it, then you shouldn't have any problems with this.

I'm here for the long-term, not to win a contest.

MB

P.S. While we are being honest with eachother, I terminated a significant number of your account referrals because a ton of them were aliases for either you (or your grandkids) or your buddy Lord Ernie; or they signed up with a free e-mail account (or an acccount with a site owned by LE); or they used false registration data. My quality control works, eh?