First, for those of you who have not read it, here is Otto's apology for his comment. I will not be removing him as moderator. If you do not agree that's fine. Otto is aware that I do not like the language used and he apologized for it. Bluesix and I do not believe his comment was meant to be taken as a literal physical threat. If you do not agree, that's fine. That's your opinion and you are entitled to it. However, my decision stands.
Second, everyone has been worked up over all the news for the past couple weeks so tempers have flared. A bunch of you do not want the megathread. You feel this is censorship when I and the other moderators and plenty of others here do not agree with that sentiment. That said, you've asked for it so you've got it. No megathread. In fact, for the next week (maybe two) ALL posts are allowed here. If the WP/WPEngine news is going to be about the software then so is hosting discussion, theme recommendations, blogging, hacked sites, promotions, list posts, code snippets, site critiques, you name it. If WordPress is involved in any way then post away! But wait! There's more! During this period the moderators will do no moderating other than unflagging posts that get caught in the spam filter or removing posts that violate the only 3 rules that remain listed in the sidebar. On top of that, Automoderator will also not be responding to any posts here.
Our new subreddit rules:
- No url shortening/shortlinks (this is reddit policy)
- No links to nulled themes or plugins
- No abusive language of any sort in posts or comments. No posts or comments that personally attack any member of this community, mod or otherwise. Violation results in a one week ban for the first offense.
At the end of a week or so, we'll revisit with a poll or something to see what changes might need to be made permanent.
>That said, you’ve asked for it so you’ve got it. No megathread. In fact, for the next week (maybe two) ALL posts are allowed here.
I remember Bluesix saying something about how much spam there was from people linking to their unrelated WordPress blogs before y’all put a lot of work into getting it under control. I tip my hat to you on this Work To Rule moderation policy.
FFS. This is a deeply pathetic, childish response. If you don’t want to be mods, just resign and let other people do it. Throwing a temper tantrum is why this community is struggling right now.
You went full Mullenweg, man. Never go full Mullenweg.
This sub as you can see from both my comments and my posts is a second home to me.
Some people drink, some people do drugs, some people watch sports, some people like the night scene and I this sub is my vice. Out of all the WordPress subs across social media and I mean all of social media. This one is the strongest by far and the most useful and helpful.
OMG – are the mods so incapable of finding the middle ground? What happened to common sense? So they choose to go to an extreme now which puts this whole sub’s integrity into question.
I just wanna know how to customize the Gutenberg HTML output.
Downvote the hell out of this post. This is nonsense. If we did what Otto did we’d banned and suspended from reddit, for good reason. In fact what otto did was a direct violation of the rules written in this post in the first place.