[wp-forums] Put 'itsjustathought' on mod-watch

[Andrea Rennick]

Also a numbers game with percentages. :) Let's say 0.5% of users like to
complain. More users out there, then there's more actual complainers.

"Why did all these people show up?" Makes more sense when you realize
X-thousand new users just started using it in the past few months. ;)

a.

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org> wrote:

> It's cyclical.
>
> Release a new version. Everyone hates it, we suck, we're evil, blah blah
> blah.
>
> Things calm down. This version isn't so bad, here we go moving on,
> changing, yay!
>
> It's quiet. We relax.
>
> Someone can see RC on the far, far horizon. Reports of what's going to be
> including pop up.
>
> Anger rises.
>
> We're not fixing 'things.' (Because there's a new version coming? Because
> they're impatient? Hard to say.)
>
> Beta comes out. OMG! You broke my plugins! How dare you use a new version
> of TinyMCE, even though we've been clamoring for a new version with fixes
> since dinosaurs roamed the earth!
>
> Beta 2 - Why is there a SECOND Beta? You suck!
>
> RC1 comes out. OMGWTFBBQ?!? My world has shifted!!!
>
> RC2-n, repeat ad. nauseum.
>
> Finally 3.4 is released and everyone hates us again.
>
> On 15 Mar 2012, at 5:15:38PM, Francisco de Azevedo wrote:
>
> > Is it just me or are people on the forums getting increasingly more rude
> in
> > the past few months?
> > In my opinion, they seem to be loosing perspective of what WP is all
> about,
> > and of the fundamental forces that drive this platform and its forums.
> > At the same time, WP is slowly but steadily becoming the single most used
> > CMS on the web.
> > So, it kind of makes me wonder if this problem with overall user attitude
> > could be related to a quantity vs. quality perspective?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-cms-your-comment-link
> >>
> >> I don't really care that he's calling me names. This is one of those
> >> accounts that shows up and is narky about the things that don't matter
> with
> >> plugins (readme's aren't right etc etc). But when you shift into
> personal
> >> attacks to folks, that generally means you're not here to be helpful
> but to
> >> show off your smarts.
> >>
> >> $20 says his next post is something about how I suck for closing that
> post.
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