[wp-forums] hostile forum

Stuart Matthews stuart at islogistics.com
Fri Sep 28 14:35:01 UTC 2012


I am finding this email list to be quite hostile, due to philosophical 
disagreements. Therefore, I'm out faster than I joined it.

Wordpress deserves a free-as-in-beer CLI. Since it looks like I can't 
get wordshell, If I find wp-cli to not be good enough, I'll work on it 
to make it so.

- Stuart

On 9/28/2012 7:29 AM, wp-forums-request at lists.automattic.com wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:16:17 -0500
> From: Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org>
> Subject: Re: [wp-forums] copy of wordshell
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> I am mod :)
>
> And I don't think saying 'Don't be a jerk' is ban-worthy. The other
> words (which yes, I was thinking) are. But I really can't think of
> another way to get the point across of how mean that is. I could very
> easily argue that what Stuart is asking for is theft. Given the context,
> I wouldn't even flinch if I saw that in the forums.
>
> If you think I should be castigated for saying jerk, well, I disagree
> that it's 'that bad' of a name to call someone. You can't completely
> neuter people's languages and expect them to still be able to express
> exactly how wrong something is. There's a time and a place for strong
> language, and talking about ripping off someone's livelihood is it.
>> Daniel Fenn <mailto:danielx386 at gmail.com>
>> September 27, 2012 8:25 PM
>> No pun intended, isn't Ipstenu mod on the forum? Maybe I'm mistaken
>>
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>> Mar Ventus <mailto:marventus.wp at gmail.com>
>> September 27, 2012 8:17 PM
>> *@Stuart:*
>> Ipstenu is right: you should ask the dev instead of going behind his back
>> and ask for the software on a public e-mail list (he/she might even be
>> subscribed to!).
>>
>> *@Ipstenu:*
>> I think you have a good point. However, name calling? Is that something
>> anyone want to open the door to on these lists or on the forums? If a user
>> behaved like that on the forums, he would probably get banned or b-tagged.
>> Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
>>
>> Good night to the both of you.
>>
>> Marventus
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>> Mika A Epstein <mailto:ipstenu at ipstenu.org>
>> September 27, 2012 7:54 PM
>> There's free and then there's free.
>>
>> Can you? Yes.
>>
>> Should you? No.
>>
>> The guy's selling it. Ask him about it, but if he doesn't have a free
>> version, don't be a jerk and include it in free ports.
>>
>> Stuart Matthews wrote:
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