Matt Mullenweg effectively is the ‘owner’ of both, yes. Though the term ‘owner’ isn’t necessarily precise, it effectively conveys the idea.
Matt Mullenweg effectively is the ‘owner’ of both, yes. Though the term ‘owner’ isn’t necessarily precise, it effectively conveys the idea.
Completely separate entities besides the owner being the same.
The open-source software from WordPress.org is great for blogs. It becomes the worst when you try it make it do more than that. Even worse is WordPress.com which is very different and uses a very locked-down and restricted proprietary version of the WordPress software. They charge $25/mo for the tier that lets you add custom CSS.
Additionally, Automattic gets a free pass of violating the WordPress terms of use for the WordPress name and logo to intentionally trick people into thinking the paid platform at WordPress.com is the same as the free and open-source software from WordPress.org. They get to leverage the non-profit’s name and likeness and gets preferential treatment to funnel business to their for-profit company.
I made no claims about my comment being perfect. I meant no disrespect or anything, even though I didn’t articulate myself perfectly to display that. Making a comment about an article’s title does not break any rules.
But none of that is the point here. Moderators are held at the very least the same standard as anyone else. As a moderator, they handled such a mild situation very poorly and lashed out, which is already evidence of being unfit to be a moderator. After being downvoted a handful of times they deleted their comment. Then later deleted my comments to even further hide it. My comments broke no rules. Someone else asked what happened and I responded with an answer of the situation, and they deleted that comment as well. They were absolutely abusing their admin to hide their embarrassment.
It has nothing to do with “being hurt”. They showed the kind of scummy person they are.
They showed that if they were willing to go this far to try to hide this, then that shows how low the bar is for them to try to manipulate things to their favor and liking with the trust that was given them as a moderator.
I don’t like the idea of that kind of person reaping the benefits of their site being linked to on the platform they tried to manipulate.
I don’t like the idea of people not facing the consequences of these kinds of actions.
I think people should know who this person is, since they showed their true self and then tried to hide it.
Bye kiddo
What you are doing is pathetic
Don’t bother.
Conveniently leaving out quite a bit of important information there to twist the narrative.
Why are you so adamant on trying to attack me throughout this thread? Do you really not have anything better to do? Get a life.
Me: occasionally brings up information for people to be aware of whenever I happen to see the website linked.
You: constantly tries to berate me with terrible logic and even admits to harassment.
Yep. Totally the same.
Your argument is “they only committed a little bit of mod abuse. You need to let it go!”
The facts are presented as neutral because they exist and are neutral.
The moderator deleted messages to hide their negative response, including messages that broke no rules citing a non-existent rule for the reason. They found out that the mod logs are public after they were called out for misusing their moderator powers by deleting messages that broke no rules. Then immediately deleted their account and complained about it on mastodon, very clearly stating that their issue was that mod logs are public.
If you think that those facts somehow change because of the context, then that’s on you. You’re just flat wrong.
Also it’s “bury the lede” 🙂
So, the facts are somehow not facts because of the source they came from?
You’re insane.
I don’t agree with you, but you can think all you want about how annoying or pointless my comment was. That is no excuse for their response, then they doubled down and tried to hide it by abusing their moderator powers. That’s the only part of this that matters.
Then based on that logic you’re harassing me. You can’t even follow your own logic.
Lol your argument is that the mod abuse is somehow okay because it wasn’t against someone else?
Why should any amount of mod abuse be okay, forgotten, or ‘let go’?
You’ve spent way too much time arguing a shitty position that really has no effect on you. Then you say I need to ’ let it go’?
The irony is too sad to be funny. I feel sorry for you.
So, because I copied my messages from before explaining the situation in an attempt to educate people about the toxic behavior of the website owner? Should I have wrote a whole new comment instead? Should I just keep quiet and let toxic people not reap the consequences of their actions?
Okay, bud.
No snark was intended, but I can see why people could interpret it poorly. I won’t claim to be perfect at communicating over Lemmy comments.
Seems like the the whining on mastadon about transparency was more because this guy is following them around harrassing them via public modlog screenshots
Baseless accusation. Got any proof?
Just slap the “Linux” onto any post and immediately get more upvotes on Lemmy.