The Google thing – not discussed here?! [CLOSED]

  • Since ‘we’ are not allowed to post anything about the Google/Link thingy – please point me to an URL, forum or whatever where I can participate in this.

    This is a VERY bad way to handle this. VERY bad.

    Reminds too much of old politb??ro tactics. I also find the whole ‘Matt is out of the country’ story a lame excuse. I guess we here in Europe have no internet, no internet cafes and don’t allow strangers to use our PCs?

    No press release. No statement on the dev blog. No word on the homepage. Threads like this one get deleted/closed (talking to you podz).

    If you want to form a community and make it grow – then let is also share the tough stuff. If there is a problem – you get flamed one way or the other. BUT DO STAND UP TO IT.

    As bloggers we all know that you can’t contain such a thing – it spreads like fire (and you even developed the software for it). So let’s be real bloggers, bitch, rant, flame and blame it out.

    Earn your respects by being open about it – not by stonewalling.

    Thanks.

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  • Politics? …what? This is about money!!! And how 100,000 users were bent over a digital barrel without their consent.

    It’s wrong….got it? All those 100,000 downloads of WP meant one thing: deception.

    It’s done and it’s out and any effort to whitewash it is too late.

    Guess now that poor Terri’s gone (rest her gentle soul), we can turn our considerable vitriol to those of us among us who are still drawing breath.

    Did any of this affect the program? Your ability to blog (and bitch about it)? Then as far as I’m concerned, I couldn’t care less. As long as Matt isn’t overseas setting up a Honduran sweat shop and hiring itinerant workers to produce code, then I don’t care. I really don’t. If that makes me stupid, ignorant, moronic, or shallow, then so be it.

    I use WordPress because it does what I want it to. This so-called fiasco has altered that IN NO WAY as far as I’m concerned. Personally, I’ve got other things to worry about in my life besides this kind of nonsense. I’m very very happy that you don’t. Maybe that’s a blessing you forgot to count.

    Forgive the snark. It’s been a long day!

    Hey, I’m just glad to see a WordPress controversy arise that doesn’t involve me and podz!

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Lol, Larry, thanks for breaking monotony.

    LOL @ LarryAyers. Reminds me of that coffee mug I saw once, Larry:

    “I’m a responsible person. When things go wrong, I’m responsible!”

    joni – Honduran sweat shop!? Please, only finest of Italian tradespersons will do!

    Larry – this is less than 36hrs old, give us time. ;P

    If Matt truly wanted to be nefarious about it, the linkss would have been on every page in the WP.org site…. not just the home page.

    Tg

    I’m waiting to hear from Matt. Too bad others have decided to be judge, jury, and executioners.

    BTW, I was responsible for closing one of the threads. This is a support forum, not an amphitheater nor a speaker’s corner. I make no apologies for doing that.

    Too bad others have decided to be judge, jury, and executioners.

    We are the judge, jury and executioners. We have the powere to see what you do, judge if it was right or wrong, and then choose whether or not we want to continue using this software.

    I think there was nothing wrong with what WordPress was doing. It is great FREE software and their advertising methods had absolutly no impact on me or my opinion of them or their software.

    lol…i’m just jealous that i didn’t think of that. Get that money anyway you can man. Great product.

    Thread Starter orangeguru

    (@orangeguru)

    From a different perspective:

    As far as I can see there is no shared control or charter rulez how www.remarpro.com is run and which ‘deals’ are made in the name of the site? And nobody seems to be informed either?

    I just wonder how open this open source project is? Or was this business move somewhere discussed or even announced?

    Is there no self control / regulation in this project?

    So in any worse case scenarios Matt is the one and only guy who can ‘do’ things?

    @kmtcn, you truly lost any credibility you ever had with me by presuming to know what is in Matt’s or anyone else’s head but your own.

    We don’t even know the details of this “business move” orangeguru, so what’s the sense of all this speculation? I’m going to decide what to do or what to say after I get the facts.

    TechGnome,

    I’m leaving WordPress because this shows that the character of the WordPress leadership is suspect. I can’t trust the WordPress team anymore.

    I am migrating out of WP for good.

    Moose, you may as well delete my comment along with kmtcn’s (which I could have SWORN was right above mine, unless I’ve had too much Port wine this evening).

    Thread Starter orangeguru

    (@orangeguru)

    @nuclearmoose:

    Too bad others have decided to be judge, jury, and executioners.

    Hmmm. IMHO it would be nice to see some more shades of grey here, instead a kind of bunker mentality.

    A so called OpenSource project and a community driven website with great support (from you and many others) – suddenly has hidden advertising links to some very strange products. As far as I know nothing of this was announced or ‘discussed’ with the community.

    For example: when MeFi suddenly had nakked suicide chicks on their front page there was an OPEN discussion on MetaTalk. Sure it was nasty, often personal and ugly.

    But Matt Haughey responded quickly and personally to it all – plus he found a solution that worked for him, his community, advertisers and brought in some cash.

    So instead of polarizing this event into the True Believers of the Code Poet and the Evil Flammers of Freeloaders there should be an exchange to sort things out and find ideas to solve the situation. “Either you are for us or against us” attitude is really rather strange IMHO.

    So when people are angry about this – one should stay open. Sure it sucks that you guys do great support, coding and design ‘for the rest of us’. And I can feel your pain – it sucks when your beloved project gets attacked for something as stupid as advertising links and sponsored articles.

    If you read comments on Slashdot, Waxy and many other sides the tenor is almost everywhere the same: WordPress is a great piece of software, the support forum is really supportive and excellent – the only but is this advertising U-Boot that suddenly torpedoed the all around ‘clean’ and ‘open’ feeling for WordPress.

    So all you coders, designer and supporters: we still love you and your great work. I guess most of the Evil Flammers & Freeloaders still like Matt – although he has been very naughty and broken some community porcellan.

    But it can be fixed if we work together.

    Amen.

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