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

[Andrea Rennick]

I have had this exact convo! It was also laced with the sense that using a
plugin was caving in to pressure or stooping to a new low, but whatever,
Code Merlin. (him, not you. :P )

I also made an auto-fill text that says "There are over 18,000 plugins
available in the official repository. No one can guarantee compatibility
with all or even most of them."

It comes up. ;)

a.

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Les Bessant <les at lcb.me.uk> wrote:

> Add in the belief that "WordPress" is some kind of (probably evil)
> Corporate Entity and it all gets a bit too much.
>
> I had a discussion with a friend who is an IT Director and usually quite
> sane, who was moderately outraged that a point release of WP didn't come
> with warnings about which plugins in the repository might have issues with
> it. His confusion seemed to flow from the notion that WP was a "commercial
> product" and that presence in the repository was some kind of official
> approval.....
>
> --
> Les Bessant les at lcb.me.uk
> Losing it[1] - http://losingit.me.uk/
> Me on 500px http://lcb.me.uk
>
>
>
> On 15 Mar 2012, at 22:22, Mika A Epstein 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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