Please bear with us as we fight the spammers that have been attacking our community for a while now. We are manually deleting the posts as we see them and as you alert us. They are a clever group and we are looking to solutions to make it harder for them.

In the meantime, the best thing you can do is ignore them.

We've seen several mentions of the strict "censorship" that we enforce in the FS community. Censorship is not what is taking place however, there is an automated profanity filter that is causing this perception.

There is a feature available in everyone's settings tab that allows you to turn on or off the filter for profanity. If you turn it 'OFF', then you will see every profane thing written within the community.

You can access the settings tab by going to your blog, then clicking on the settings tab (second from the right) . The  profanity filter toggle is located at the bottom of that page. Simply click on the 'Off' radio button and click the 'save settings' button and you will stop seeing the ####ing hash marks!

So none of over at the FOX HQ were ecstatic about the last redesign, but there were some interesting elements that we wanted to keep. So, launching very soon is a new version of the blog directory. Here's a quick rundown on the page:

• Most Interesting Blogs. Every day or so, these three spots should turn over with the most interesting blogs of the past 24 hours. What determines Interestingness, you ask? Let's just call it special sauce... ;)
• Most Popular Discussions. We've added links to blogs with recent comments as well as blogs with the most comments. Comment-spammers take note: we've added more mechanisms to prevent gaming the system!
• Tagcloud. The tagcloud is dead! Long live the tagcloud! We've killed the page-as-tagcloud thing we had going on in part deux, and kept the best part: the hot topics. So the tagcloud on this page should give you a good snapshot of what's going on in the FOX Sports blogosphere at any given time.
• Recent Posts. We brought back recent posts by category, and added an Other category at the bottom of the page for links to Soccer, Tennis, WWE, Gatorball, etc.
• Soccer! There's now a Soccer index page for your MLS, EPL, World Cup, etc, enjoyment. I'll post the link to the page when it goes live.

We think it captures what we're trying to do here: provide a snapshot of what's popular, what's new, and what's hot in the FOXSports community. Comments, constructive criticism, and suggestions are welcomed, as always. Thanks! - Kareem

We want to grow this community of bloggers to make it even more vibrant and diverse. So, we'd like to hear why YOU blog--your reason might appear on an ad campaign that will run on FOXSports.com. We're looking for things like... 101. Because Yankees fans need to hear from Sox fans 100. Because Matt Lienart was a horrible draft pick 99. Because Kobe should be the MVP 98. Because USC is over-rated 97. Because professional wrestling is real 96. Because soccer is a sport 95. Because the Texans made a HUGE mistake 94. Because the Orioles need a bullpen ... What about you? Why do you blog?

Folks... we've (and you've obviously) noticed people who assign their posts to the NFL, NHL, NBA, MLB, etc etc categories, so it would appear in multiple categories on the old recently updated blogs page. It seems that the switch to the new page has removed the need to tag posts like that, but some folks out there still continue to do it. So, the question I'm asking you is... does it create a bad experience for y'all to have people using irrelevant categories on their posts? And if so, what would be a good solution? We've got a few ideas here at the Orbiting FOXSports HQ, but want to hear you thoughts and ideas first. Thanks! Kareem