[Jonathan]

seems the more plugins Syed acquires, the angrier the WordPress community becomes

This entire thread is so cringe. Let's bait our followers into a social convo and then just promote our own products (with zero disclaimer that they own the product they are pushing)

SeedPro is the #1 page builder? lolol ok. https://t.co/mz9YrmmYOo

— Brad Williams (@williamsba) March 7, 2023

[Ethan]

I mean he has a point, the fraudulent marketing tactics have been a huge problem in the WP scene for a very long time

it never really seems to improve….

[Noah]

🥴

how can it improve when Automattic is the biggest scammers in the community lol

[Bryan]

I’m so old I remember when Syed “gifted” the WP.org domain name to Matt… you know, like a “donation” to a “non-profit organization”

[Randy]

loooollllll damn I didn’t know that, what year was that?

[Andrea]

loooollllll damn I didn’t know that, what year was that?

2016 apparently, Matt even made sure it got coverage:

Syed Balkhi Donates WP.org to The WordPress Foundation

[Michael]

The bribe before the mass-acquisition of WordPress plugins began… and many agreements were signed with companies like EIG hosting.

Remember, Bluehost is one of Matt’s biggest investors

[Diane]

too many dbags to count ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Christina]

So wait… Brad, that is the same guy who moderates ProWordPress subreddit and banned LittleBizzy just because Otto asked him to, is the Twitter comment accurate.

[Grace]

Brad, that is the same guy who moderates ProWordPress

The same.

[Karen]

– former U.S. Marine
– flaming hypocrite
– censors other web developers on Reddit while pretending he’s on the moral side of FOSS

did I get this right? 🙄

[Juan]

WordPress community in a nutshell

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