A few days ago, I
wrote about a splog over on wordpress.com that I had reported a number of times that, after a pair of "Report as Spam" and a support ticket still remained online. It took three hours after blogging about it but it finally came down.
Folks have
written that
wordpress.com is as spam free as possible. In fact,
Matt Mullenweg recently
commented that they've removed over 800,000 such sites from the service, 24% of all blogs created on that site. (I agree with the commenter. The math is off.) That number seems rather low to me considering that numbers between
50% and 77% get used all the time.
I've
questioned this in the past a number of times as it really sounds like PR coming from
Automattic. (And if you haven't figured out yet that anything coming from Automattic should be questioned, you may want to give that some thought.) Simply going around the site with their Next Blog link in the admin bar will usually show a number of splogs. I've always reported them in the past.
Here's something else I've been doing. I've bookmarked every splog reported since the middle of January, 2008. I have a list of 917 splogs located on wordpress.com that, having just checked a large random sample of them, appear to be mostly still on line. Nearly a thousand. You would think that a site that's going around and stating how anti-spam they are would have deleted them a long time ago. Guess not.
Here's a sampling from that list. These are 70 that were reported this past weekend that as far as I can tell are still online as of today. They've all been marked with nofollow and noindex so they won't get any credit from me.
I wonder how long it'll take for someone to catch up on these. I also wonder what the problem is this time.
edit: Here's another
one.
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