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why is there so much tribalism in WordPress community

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    Michael
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    has the WP community become so big, and people so desperate to make money online, they are willing to trash all competitors who are not part of their affiliate link tribe? this atmosphere seems to pervade WP community for years already.

    #5187 Reply
    Sharon
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    IMO this is like asking “why is there so much tribalism on Facebook?” or any other monopoly type of community. WordPress is cool, but the software and logic is not amazing, they got in the market at the perfect moment like Facebook and so everyone started using and learning WordPress, and many competitors (even better ones) died.

    So when there’s so much market saturation, it’s more just asking like “why do humans trash each other so much to get ahead”

    and that’s a big question above my pay grade I think

    #5188 Reply
    Daniel
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    The leadership of WordPress doesn’t make it better though. They actively play favorites with people like Awesome Motive and Yoast, while censoring others and banning users from wp.org they disagree with

    Also, trying to suck up to power brokers like Google.

    #5189 Reply
    Ralph
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    – play favorites
    – censor and ban people they don’t like
    – suck up to rich and powerful

    why do you think Mark Z. is Matt M. favorite idol 🤣

    #5190 Reply
    Rebecca
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    WordPress community is miserable, a bunch of beta male PHP coders trying their damnedest to pretend they are political moderate Snowden geniuses on one side, and affiliate bros on the other side who couldn’t write some CSS lines if their life depended on it

    #5192 Reply
    Christine
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    because humans are self-serving beasts

    #5196 Reply
    Richard
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    #5197 Reply
    Victoria
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    Several good posts exploring this problem, on WordPress.com no less!

    Tribalism, the biggest problem in engineering?

    and

    How about more tribes and less tribalism?

    #5650 Reply
    Gabriel
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    easy, just ask Matt.

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    Sarah
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    #8246 Reply
    Gerald
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    cuz this lil b***h is our benevolent dictator

    Matt Mullenweg trash talking FOSS contributors on Twitter

    #8271 Reply
    Louis
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    Matt Mullenweg has created the worst software community in history. Petty insults when people make suggestions, trashing people who volunteer, and acting like a douchebag who never grows up and matures. It’s sad really, so much lost potential.

    #8272 Reply
    Christina
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    acting like a douchebag who never grows up and matures

    the Benjamin Button of dbags 😂😂

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    Debra
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