Read all about it at Waxy.org. Basically:

I discovered last week that since early February, he’s been quietly hosting at least 168,000 articles on their website. These articles are designed specifically to game the Google Adwords program, written by a third-party about high-cost advertising keywords like asbestos, mesothelioma, insurance, debt consolidation, diabetes, and mortgages. (Update: Google is actively removing every article from their results, but here’s a saved copy of the first page of results. You can still view about 25,000 results on Yahoo. Here’s an example of some results in MSN.)

Interesting. I would have considered donating some cash because the wordpress software is fantastic. But now I’m glad I haven’t and definately won’t. I don’t really care that he was doing it, but search engine spamming is a bad thing. The software continues to rule though, so unless hidden code is uncovered in it that is doing something awful, we’ll continue to use it here. The internet is still debating whether this was a really bad thing to do, a bad thing to do, or just a way for him to get some cash together to fund the project. We’ll leave them to it.