Comments on: I expected Matt to be Smarter than That http://www.johnon.com/271/matt-wordpress-spam.html I think there's an opinion on that subject lying around here somewhere.... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:40:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: John Andrews http://www.johnon.com/271/matt-wordpress-spam.html#comment-9798 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:02:24 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/271/matt-wordpress-spam.html#comment-9798 Thanks Matt but I'm not sure I see your point. Is it "sponsored posts" that are bad, or the way it is being "systematized"? I can see Wordpress.com not signing a deal with a broker, but are you saying sponsored posts are spam? Or maybe just sponsored posts with links are spam? ReviewMe is sponsored PR (no links required). I didn't see any requirement for links in PPP either, although they allow the sponsor to dictate such details. Thanks Matt but I’m not sure I see your point. Is it “sponsored posts” that are bad, or the way it is being “systematized”? I can see Wordpress.com not signing a deal with a broker, but are you saying sponsored posts are spam? Or maybe just sponsored posts with links are spam? ReviewMe is sponsored PR (no links required). I didn’t see any requirement for links in PPP either, although they allow the sponsor to dictate such details.

]]> by: Matt http://www.johnon.com/271/matt-wordpress-spam.html#comment-9764 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:20:07 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/271/matt-wordpress-spam.html#comment-9764 It's not a matter of money, in fact a company in this space offered a guaranteed 7-figure deal if we supported them and we turned it down. I screwed up in this area in the past, and it was a huge mistake, and now companies are forming around systematizing what I already learned 2 years ago was a horrible idea. If anything I'm uniquely positioned to have an opinion on this issue having messed up before, and since then leading web anti-spam with Akismet. It’s not a matter of money, in fact a company in this space offered a guaranteed 7-figure deal if we supported them and we turned it down.

I screwed up in this area in the past, and it was a huge mistake, and now companies are forming around systematizing what I already learned 2 years ago was a horrible idea. If anything I’m uniquely positioned to have an opinion on this issue having messed up before, and since then leading web anti-spam with Akismet.

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