Andrew Grant

I’m a great fan of your service. You have a growing number of competitors, but I find they often cast the net too wide and don’t match your signal-to-noise ratio.

But there’s a problem.

Nearly every frickin day my subscription to your RSS feed for “Media Center” contains several pieces of worthless spam with the title ‘Philippine Condo Hotels or Condotels “Open The Door To Lifestyle Real Estate”‘.

If you can’t block a piece of spam that has a consistent title, then what hope do you have when tag-spammers move from stuffing posts with tags to something a bit cleverer?

Please fix it.

Signed,

A Usually Happy User.

Since late last night the Technorati search feed I use for Wordpress news has been filling up with hundreds of posts from sites. The vast majority of these posts have nothing to do with Wordpress, and most don’t even include Technorati tags!

For example this is the site that’s currently at the top of the search feed; http://www.aggiegeeks.com/wordpress/?p=57

It seems clear something has become broken with the method Technorati uses to catalogue sites. This is backed up by the Technorati Graph that displays the number of posts that are tagged with Wordpress. There’s a spike that begins on the 17th and has increased today.

I wonder if Technorati is attempting to catalogue posts based on their content, and as a result pulling in all sites that contain a “powered by Wordpress” comment. Whatever the problem, it’s very annoying and my finger is hovering over the unsubscribe button