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.

• A quick roll-your-own carnival submission form BlogCarnival.com has become an integral part of many blog carnivals.  They were down for about a week with database maintenance.  I know that this was probably quite hectic for them as well as for all of the carnival managers that depend on the features it brings to the table. A......
• 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......
• Communicate with your hosts If you're managing a carnival then you know how important your hosts are.  They can make managing the carnival a piece of cake.  And if they volunteer to host, they likely know what it entails and will put together a good carnival for you, the carnival readers, and for the......
• Consider choosing quality over quantity Free Money Finance has started up a new blog carnival that turns its back on quantity.  The Best of Money Carnival, by definition, is limited to only ten posts each week.  FMF even throws in some perqs:  $1,000 donated to charity for the best post of the year and for......

• Two Monday Carnivals ... ... and a Partridge in a Pear Tree. The blog at You Need a Budget hosts this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction! Next week it's hosted at Savvy Saver! The Carnival of Personal Finance this week is hosted at Political Calculations. Very nicely organized carnival! Next week the Carnival......
• Music Monday - Holidays with Enya, Josh & a little Jane Enya, Josh & Jane make beautiful holiday music :)...
• 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......
• Being Frugal has posted Carnival 115 Lynnae over at Being Frugal has posted the brightly-lit Holiday World Tour Edition of the Carnival of Debt Reduction! There's a debt reduction lesson, along with several relevant posts, at each of the stops on the tour:  recognizing the problem, making a plan, make more and spend less, find support,......