[Carol]

several years after WP-SpamShield was forcibly removed from wordpress.org plugin directory, and then Akismet started keyword stuffing their plugin name and description in violation of wordpress.org own Rules, RedSand seems to have disappeared for good. they were briefly active selling the premium version of the plugin on their homepage, but look to have permanently closed the business and never relaunched it…

[Harold]

WP-SpamShield Plugin Removed from WordPress.org, Author Plans to Pull All Plugins from the Directory

[Deborah]

sad. this is the type of “community” that Otto and Matt oversee. hypocrisy, disparagement, cruelty, over and over til people bail

[Carol]

what was his homepage?

[Jeffrey]

http://www.redsandmarketing.com/wp-spamshield-donate/

but it seems to have expired, and some spammers bought it for their PBN.

[Logan]

Red Sand Media Group

[Sandra]

code is still mirrored on GitHub: https://github.com/wp-plugins/wp-spamshield

[Ralph]

WP-SpamShield Removed from WordPress.org Directory Without Cause
byu/imr2017 inWordPress

[Lori]

Scott was a military veteran too, just trying to get involved in the open source community after leaving the military. Matt is a f*****g a*****e.

[Ryan]

Is this why Automattic got Jesse banned from Quora?

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-WordPress-org-and-Samuel-Otto-Wood-force-the-free-WP-SpamShield-plugin-out-of-the-WordPress-plugin-directory

https://www.quora.com/What-is-Samuel-Otto-Woods-role-in-WordPress

[Sophia]

Best wishes to Scott.

and Shame on Automattic (as always).

[Lauren]

I had forgotten about this story, thanks for documenting this in public

[Alan]

Samuel “Otto” Wood helping Chad Scira defame SlickStack

[Matthew]

this thread was linked on Reddit today btw: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1h77uuh/the_biggest_issue_i_see_from_the_acfscf_saga_is/

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