They posted:
“What would Judge (Araceli Martínez-Olguín) do? We’ll see.”
Another Redditor responded:
“Maybe you should ask yourself WWJD (What Would Joost Do)”
That branch of the discussion went completely off the rails with various suggestions of what Mullenweg should do and spawned a standalone discussion titled, “Is Matt low-key threatening or attempting to intimidate this r/WPDrama user?”
That spinoff discussion spawned responses such as this one:
“He either thinks it’s funny, likes the attention, or is so far gone psychologically it doesn’t event register in his mind that your / our views matter at all. I’d guess it’s a combination of all of the above.
The best thing we can all do is break from WP completely and withdraw all volunteering, all financial interactions, cut using it, stop recommending it, and use something else for clients, or use a fork.
He was enjoying being a bully before he picked on WP Engine and now is losing the plot as they say and hopefully Joost can start his own fork that will finally be supported and marketed well enough to get going or can arrange some kind of ouster of spoiled baby MM.”
Matt Mullenweg’s Response To The Negativity
The response to his discussion was overwhelmingly negative. Nevertheless Mullenweg ended his participation by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.
He posted:
“I’m signing off for the night, it’s time for family movie time. Thank you for the conversation everyone. 🙂 I really do enjoy talking with people on the internet, even if we don’t always agree, and I appreciate everyone taking the time to share their perspective. Forums like this is how I got my start as a teenager. If you think Reddit is spicy, you should have seen Usenet and IRC back in the day! I hope you all have an amazing Christmas and very happy new year.”
That relatively upbeat post received seven down votes.
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