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    Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?

    (torment-nexus.mathewingram.com)
    154 points davidandgoliath | 11 comments | 17 Oct 24 18:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.194s | source | bottom
    1. nfRfqX5n ◴[17 Oct 24 21:05 UTC] No.41873784[source]▶
    Way too early to tell, but the way everyone is piling on this guy and saying he has mental problems makes me believe he will end up being in the right on this
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    2. jeltz ◴[17 Oct 24 21:16 UTC] No.41873885[source]▶
    Because you are contrarian just to be contrarian? That is a very lazy thing to be, arguably even lazier than blindly following the masses. It is a way to feel superior without having to think.

    Why don't you read up and form your own opinion? It is just like 15-30 minutes of research.

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    3. ceejayoz ◴[17 Oct 24 21:17 UTC] No.41873895[source]▶
    Eh, for every "they said he was crazy but he was a bona-fide genius" case, there's a few million "nope, just crazy" counter-examples.
    4. nfRfqX5n ◴[17 Oct 24 21:31 UTC] No.41874016[source]▶
    My opinion is both parties are in the wrong, but everyone is piling on this guy and calling him mentally ill
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    5. Lalabadie ◴[17 Oct 24 21:33 UTC] No.41874046[source]▶
    That's a survivorship bias of astronomical proportions
    6. jrflowers ◴[17 Oct 24 21:39 UTC] No.41874092[source]▶
    This reasoning is how you end up believing the earth is flat
    7. jjulius ◴[17 Oct 24 21:56 UTC] No.41874223{3}[source]▶
    >... [I] believe he will end up being in the right on this

    >My opinion is both parties are in the wrong...

    So you feel which way, now?

    8. pessimizer ◴[17 Oct 24 22:12 UTC] No.41874329{3}[source]▶
    My opinion is very similar: both parties are in the right, but one is calling up a mob to pile up on this guy and call him mentally ill.

    Automattic has the right to cut off use of its trademarks and infrastructure for any reason, and the hedge fund has the right to whine about it because they got used to the generosity.

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    9. jeltz ◴[17 Oct 24 22:44 UTC] No.41874572{4}[source]▶
    Matt tried to call up a mob against WP Engine. For example with his talk but also the things he wrote in the admin panel of all WordPress users. It backfired and the mob turned on him.

    As far as I know WP Engine has not tried to call up a mob. The mob was entierly Matt's own creation. So you agree that he is the one in the wrong?

    10. gitaarik ◴[18 Oct 24 04:05 UTC] No.41876253{3}[source]▶
    Not everyone, I see a lot of people with civilized, mature, intellectual comments. But yeah strong actions also result in strong emotions in people, so it's not surprising to see a lot of strong reactions.
    11. vundercind ◴[18 Oct 24 13:15 UTC] No.41879153{3}[source]▶
    Missed the thread where he was posting over, and over, and over, in here, including some stuff that looked materially interesting for a lawsuit, while everyone was either begging him to both talk to his lawyers and listen to them when they told him to STFU, or else toasting marshmallows over his self-immolation? It was not well behavior, and that's just stuff visible in his comments on this site, let alone others.