Wordpress linked to spam.
Thursday, March 31st, 2005The software that runs this web log, Wordpress, is hosted by the site at wordpress dot org. It was revealed today that that site is infested with spam intended to secretly enrich advertisers through manipulating search engine results. Slashdot has the story. (*) There is no excuse for this disgraceful behavior by the parties responsible.
I had no idea this was going on until today. The Wordpress leadership team can no longer be trusted. I will migrate this site away from Wordpress and to another system as soon as possible.
In the meantime, I have removed all hyperlinks to Wordpress dot org.
While andrewhagen.com has never intentionally participated in any spam campaign, I wish to now take all necessary steps to completely disassociate myself and this site from Wordpress.
I encourage all bloggers using Wordpress to abandon that software permanently.
Update: 2007.03.02. Long ago, the person stopped the practice. (†) Since then, Wordpress has not been in a position of intentionally spamming.