Comments on: Wrong Thinking: Accusing Blogroll Links Not Sploggers

By: Blogrolls Gone in WordPress. How to Save Your Links. « Lorelle on WordPress

Blogrolls Gone in WordPress. How to Save Your Links. « Lorelle on WordPress — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:42:59 +0000

[...] WordPress sites including the official WordPress site. In 2006, some people became sensitive about these default WordPress recommended links pre-installed as an example of a blogroll and Matt Mullenweg and WordPress developers eventually [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:33:49 +0000

I get a lot of this not because of the links, but people assume I’m personally responsible for every WP blog in the world. It ranges from the ignorant, like Alex quoted, to lawyers, to the FBI. It used to bug me but I’ve mostly gotten used to it.

By: UKStevieB

UKStevieB — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:55:31 +0000

I think the confusion is understandable to a certain degree, but the attitude of some of the people seems a little extreme. It is a shame that someone who has given so much to the WordPress community should now have to suffer because of it.

By: Hameed Khan

Hameed Khan — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:01:21 +0000

It’s not about common sense, think it other way. What if you haven’t heard about WordPress? How would you know that these links are from default installation of WordPress? No one can be blamed of all this except those spammers. Those people who are abusing Alex are just frustrated of seeing spams on their favorite Yahoo! Answers.

By: Lovedeep Wadhwa

Lovedeep Wadhwa — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:35:27 +0000

I think these people blaming wordpress guys don’t have any common sense..

By: Kristin K. W.

Kristin K. W. — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:05:13 +0000

This is like arresting the neighbour of the thief instead of the thief himself.