Wordpress linked to spam.
The 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.
March 31st, 2005 at 18:28
Those bastards. I hope you have no troubles moving the site.
. . . Blogger . . . Since they were bought by Google, the performance has plummeted. I bet they are working feverishly . . . .
Good luck.
Me
March 31st, 2005 at 19:15
I have a comment policy that does not allow potentially defamatory comments to be published. I edited your remarks to remove the potentially defamatory material.
If you wish, I can remove the entire comment.
Thank you for commenting. I’m sorry to be a creep about this. I just need to protect myself.
March 31st, 2005 at 20:26
Everybody makes mistakes. I think Matt was just trying to keep up with the cost of running the site. Imagine spending countless hours working on something and then instead of getting paid, you actually have to pay for hosting and stuff. It’s not easy.
I don’t agree with what he did. But again, everybody makes mistakes.