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[Update] A further email response was sent by Mullenweg to me:

My email was private and not meant for publication, thanks.

Also, negative comments are not censored, read the thread for plenty of negative feedback. Yours, however, seemed like it needed a response and it was so far down the thread and I didn’t get to moderating it for a day or two that you probably wouldn’t have seen it, hence my email. But suggesting that there are only positive comments on the wp.com blog is demonstrably false.

As for spam,

http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2007/04/09/why-wordpresscom-is-virtually-spam-free/

Finally, related links always point to the same blog/author first, and to the exclusion of anything else *if there’s enough related content on the same blog*.

Here was my response:

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Edit: Yeah, it’s censorship for sure. My comment’s been deleted, I can say for sure there wasn’t any insults and flaming in the comment.

WordPress readers will probably have heard about the issue surrounding the “related links” feature that wordpress.com and inserted into every blog unless you specifically opt-out of it.

If you want to learn about the issue and hear the opinions of a few prominent bloggers in the WordPress.com community, here’s a few links:

Internet Duct Tape: Fixing the WordPress.com Possibly Related Feature

Lorelle: Alert: Possibly Related Posts Feature on WordPress.com Blogs

Andy Beard: WordPress Possibly Related Posts With Sphere

I posted a comment on their announcement post and it’s sat in moderation for about 24 hours now. Here’s my comment(Hmm, there seems to be a few typos”: (more…)