Since there is no longer moderation, this subforum is no longer a neutral space for discussion. Only today there have been multiple posts praising Matt and Automattic actions, posted with throwaway accounts with barely 1 karma.
This is only going to get worse. My advice, don't debate with those accounts, don't waste your time and energy with agents who simply want to censor the plain reality.
Others can explain it better than me, but many of us who have invested decades with WordPress have seen the value that ACF has, when WPEngine bought it I thought they were going to kill it or make it worse, but it was not the case, I was never a customer of WPEngine, I think there is much more variety at a lower cost, but I value the work they have done with ACF Pro and to see how Automattic have stolen the concept and acted in the last weeks is unprecedented, and part of a trend where the internet is becoming more and more a less collaborative and more feudal place.
Once again ignore the posts and let's do a silent downvote and mark the post in the comment as PR not karma bot.
Good luck
Edit, apparently there is another sub for further discussions, I did not know about it. But still, I am just pointing that the lack of Moderation is getting a lot of bots…
Give it some to see if wp engine kills ACF. It’s early yet.
There is nothing wrong with stating the other side.
So do you all prefer calling it Mattstroturfing or matturfing?
I think it’s time to have “Rule 15” that will be about limiting drama posts and off-topic discussion especially those that have potential to become political. Lately, it’s starting to feel more like a politics sub than a place to discuss WordPress, i call it “WordPress politics”. It just turns into a circlejerk and makes it impossible to keep up with actual web development and technical topics related to WordPress.
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Enforcing minimum karma would nip that.
Course, a mod needs to set that up.
So it’s kinda obvious that some moderation was necessary to help prevent astroturfing and manipulation of the subreddit now huh?
I’m not a Matt apologist but his opposition are just as capable of posting astroturf. Saying this sub is not neutral because of a LACK of moderation is weird.
It was never a place for neutral discussion in the first place.
Recently it’s just a bunch of disenfranchised people looking to virtue signal.