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

[Francisco de Azevedo]

@ Mika: Still laughing at your email, and nodding compulsively in blatant
approval.
@ Mel & Andrea: Are you absolutely sure that those stats are not a little
higher, say, 10/90 (and I'm being generous)? ;-)
@ Les: your friend is clearly on to WP and it's evil Monsanto-like
practices. If I were you, I would suggest him/her to watch his/her back,
heehee.

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Andrea Rennick <andrea at ronandandrea.com>wrote:

> 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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