I do hope that SixApart allows for feedback on false positives. While Akismet does have it’s “Mark as not spam” setting as well as the form for reporting false positives on their site, both are considered to be a blackhole by many. Also considering that Matt controls who gets Akismet API keys and can turn them off at will like he’s done previously, the service is rather questionable, at least in my opinion.

I find it most interesting that once again we see Matt give one of his “Do as I say, not as I do.” embarrassment moments up there. The removal of Akismet from wp.com blogs is one of the most requested items on the wp.com forums and has always fallen on deaf ears. (Outside of a very few responses from staff saying that there’s no plan on removing it.)

Wordpress, the blogging software is not Automattics. It is maintained by them but not owned by them per se.

Wordpress.com, the service is owned by Automattic

Now if they can just keep their bigger bloggers from being spanked by Google just for using TP.

I rarely venture out into a blog fight, but I’m personally tired of Six Apart and MT being the blogosphere’s whipping boy. If we can’t forget the ye olde charging for MT incident, maybe we should list out other grievances. There are lots of them as the industry figured itself out.