The other day I found a new WordPress plugin that caught my eye: Easy Expand. It creates a bit of AJAX to tweak the way WP uses the special <!–more–> tag and it seemed pretty interesting.

So I visited the site only to find the download corrupt. I wanted to leave a comment notifying the author of this but comments are only open to registered users. Registration is open, so I signed up. After logging in I discovered something quite curious. The administrator has blog set so new users are automatically at WP's Author level. Which means that I unexpectedly found myself with the ability to write my own posts on her blog.

I resisted the temptation to write a post like, "You're a tool. Check your security." I left my comment (which was moderated) and went about my day. This morning I had a chipper e-mail response informing me that the corrupt download was fixed. I then told her about the unusually high new user level.

She told me that's exactly what she intended, encouraged me to write as many posts as I please and suggested I read her other posts to learn why. So I did. She's got a grand total of three posts. One is about the plugin and the other two are about making money with Google Adsense.

So I wrote my post about blocking web ads, including Adsense ads, with Firefox. I somehow doubt this is what Ms. Something-or-other had in mind. I'm curious to see if she lets the post stay.