Ok, so nobody is seeing it from the outside, but we’ve been hit with about 1100 spam hits behind the scenes.  As a response, I’m disabling comments in all articles.  You’ll just have to go to the other place to comment now (I say it that way so I don’t use the magic spambot keyword).  I’m working on approving legit people as quickly as possible.  I’m working to find a plugin that will fight the spam, then I’ll enable comments again.

So, in the space of the last couple of hours, we’ve pretty much been spam-bombed.  I’ve got most of it cleaned out, but an unfortunate side effect is that you can’t post unless you have a comment previously approved.  I’ll do my best to keep on top of that, but it just has to happen for now.

Before speculation goes around as to why changes are happening, I’m just going to address them now.  We started out this show trying to become the official podcast for Game Crazy.  We’ve been thrilled that we’ve been able to help some people get taken care of through back channels.  However, it’s become pretty clear that we will never be the official show.  There are no hard feelings, but we’ve also accepted the reality that it isn’t going to happen.

Then, Mo ended up having to move to Lousisiana.  Like we’ve said, he’s still part of the show and will be back on once he gets settled.  Now, due to circumstances that won’t be discussed, Mike has decided to leave Game Crazy to pursue other opportunities.

I’m very happy with the group that we have doing the show and we now have people assuming that since the show has the name Game Crazy, they have a right to be on it.  All of these things happening have led me to the decision that it is time for a change.  We’re going to roll with the name GameCrazy Radio for the time being until we decide on a new name.  We’ll be getting a new domain, a new logo and hopefully a redesigned site in the future.

Anyway, I just wanted to let everyone know what’s going on.  We’re not going away, we’re just changing a bit.

I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that there are changes coming to GCR.  The first you’ll notice is in our disclaimer.  More changes will be coming this week and we’re hoping to get back to production soon.

I just wanted everyone to know that we finally have an RSS feed up and running.  It looks a lot better than the old crappy one, too.  I’m in the midst of having the feed put into iTunes.  If you use the Zune store, iTunes or another rss service that requires you to search for the title, put in “GameCrazy Radio” without a space between Game and Crazy.  If you can just put the feed into your podcatcher, the feed is located at http://feeds.feedburner.com/GCR.  Most importantly, I put in our mascot (who we have named Flame Dude) into the feed as well.

It has been brought to my attention that comments haven’t been working all that well for everyone.  I’ve since disabled the requirement that you create an account to post since the site isn’t letting everyone create an account.  Now, in order to post, you just need to put in your name and e-mail address.  The address shouldn’t show up, but if it does, I’ll figure out how to disable that.