As a blog carnival gets more popular, the number of submissions goes up, and the traffic the carnival gets goes up as well.  This is good.  Unfortunately, this popularity also attracts posts that are of marginal quality or are highly commercial.  Or, people will submit several posts to a single edition of the carnival.  Spammy is a good word to describe these posts and these submitters.

It gets annoying after a while.  BlogCarnival.com has enough safeguards that the “spam” is limited, but as of now there’s nothing to prevent someone from going down the line of carnivals and submitting the same post to every single one, or from submitting multiple posts to a single carnival edition.  Here are a few ways to handle these kinds of unwanted submissions:

• Leave it up to the host to use editorial discretion.  This has worked so far with the Carnival of Debt Reduction, but some of the hosts are beginning to complain.  And rightfully so, I suppose.
• E-mail the offending poster and ash him/her to post more normally.
• Ban the offender if the submissions get bad enough or if s/he doesn’t take the hint.
• Move the submission form off site.  The Carnival of Personal Finance did this, and the submissions still seem to be up.  The last time I hosted the spam was pretty moderate if not non-existent.  This might cause a hit in the number of submissions initially, but after a while the posting should get better.

• Easy themes your blog carnival Adding a theme to your carnival doesn't have to be difficult.  It can be as easy as looking around you and searching Wikipedia. Interspersing a few interesting facts about a timely topic, regardless of whether that topic is closely tied to the particular blog carnival, dresses it up substantially.  It's......
• An unfortunate reality of hosting a blog carnival The larger benefit goes to the people who submit to the carnivals rather than to the people who put forth all of the effort to host them. A number of bloggers I respect have figured this out already, and they're fairly reluctant to host a carnival anymore. They understand the......
• Empower your hosts Managing a blog carnival can be really easy if you have great hosts.  Great hosts write inventive posts for the carnivals and help to promote the carnival.  It's their edition of the carnival, so a good reflection on them is a good reflection on you. My Carnival of Debt Reduction......
• Carnival of Personal Finance cutting the BlogCarnival.com cord? Last week when I tried to submit my article to the Carnival of Personal Finance over at BlogCarnival.com, I found out that this carnival was "inactive." At one point the carnival I manage, the Carnival of Debt Reduction, was in danger of becoming inactive over there because I hadn't updated......

• Carnival #53 is up at Journey to Financial Freedom Thanks very much to Journey to Financial Freedom for hosting this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction!Sixteen articles in this week's carnival -- thanks to everyone who submitted! Ones that I especially liked:Gratitude and debt.  Instead of looking at what you don't have, look at what you do have, and work......
• Debt Hater has posted the Carnival! Thanks very much to Debt Hater for hosting this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction!Tricia at Blogging Away Debt has a good post about differentiating between debt reduction and deprivation, which could mean the difference between staying debt free and bingeing her way back to debt.Sometimes, though, the odds are stacked......
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• Two carnivals for this week's CoDR submissions! The current Carnival of Debt Reduction is up at the Frugal Duchess! Sharon is doing a serial carnival, just like the first time she hosted.  This means that she's taking submissions for the rest of the week, and posting them as she's getting them! Next week's host, the Wandering Indian......