jensimmons
Member
Posted 1 month ago #
This plugin sounded like it would fix I problem I have. But turning it on requires registration — giving MaxBlogPress your name and email (which I did) and then confirming that email (fine) through a process that included reading down very a spammy and disgusting sales pitch for ways to improve traffic to your site or something.
NO WAY
This doesn't seem like a legitimate open source plugin to me. It seems like a infommercial-esk scam for selling crap. Now I wish I didn't give them my contact info. I'm sure I'll see spam from them.
I didn't go through the rest of the enable process. I turned it off and deleted it. And hope it didn't spam up my WordPress install or database.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multi-author-comment-notification/
I did the exact thing and I got all the spam too. I was not happy in the least.
Update: I did go to that guys site and removed myself from the lists I never joined. It seemed to work as I haven't been spammed in a day or so.
I'm really surprised someone from WP or the forums here haven't commented in this thread. If an extension that has a valid reason to have registration comes along, there is no way I will use it. Others that see this thread won't either. This harms the WP community, all for one spammer trying to pull a fast one.
jensimmons
Member
Posted 1 month ago #
Yup, the very next day I was getting spam email from them. Even though their install process PROMISED they would not use my email for anything other than registration. In other words, they lied.
This plugin should be taken off wordpress.org. The whole purpose of having a central, curated plugin repository is to keep out the spammers. This module might not have spam code (we don't know if it does or not), but it does have a scheme for spamming people.
