Politico reports that influential blog RedState has banned all Ron Paul commentary from recent users who have signed up for the sight seeing their constant pro-Paul comments as spam. I for one am happy to hear it.

Hey, we’re sure *some* of Ron Paul’s supporters really are Republicans. They can post at any one of a zillion Ron Paul online forums. Those who have *earned* our respect by contributing usefully for a substantial period of time will be listened to with appropriate respect. Those who have not will have to *earn* that respect by contributing usefully in the other threads… and not mentioning Ron Paul. Given a month of solid contributing, send one of us an email and we’ll consider lifting the restriction on your account.

I love to see grassroot support but let’s be honest, this Ron Paul stuff is getting out of hand. In Internet etiquette there is a difference between campaigning and spamming just as in the real world there is a difference between campaigning and standing infront of people and just screaming “you don’t know anything, this is the way you should vote, you don’t know anything”. See the difference between being effective and annoying? These Ron Paul spammers don’t and have taken over the politics section of Digg and Fark and have flooded the comments sections of blogs all over the Web.

The announcement was made at Redstate in this post.

Sorry to be on the side of the big bad Web site machine and against the spammers here but really I cannot applaud Redstate enough.