sé reedI filed my first #WordPress Code of Conduct violation report today, after 11 years of being in the WordPress community.
I wrote about it, and published the report itself, on the @WPwatercooler site.
Seth 🎙️
@sereedmedia I'm in full support of you filing this. He is being evasive at best and downright dismissive and even slanderous at worst.
This puts a bad taste in my mouth about actively participating in the project as well.
Your thread was just one of a few where Matt went off the rails. It's not a good look.
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🇺🇦 Anna Filina@sereedmedia The way he's attacking and insulting people on Twitter is scary. It only takes a few of these tweets to see that he's a bully who is abusing his position. I'm sorry for what you're going through.
Javi A.@sereedmedia the gist of all this is that y'all are starting to see the Matt those in automattic are used to see internally. My theory is that all those years of increasingly being a petty tyrant to his employees has made a dent on his personality and it's finally showing up outside.
@sereedmedia when I started in a8c, we used to joke there were two Matts: townhalls Matt, who were a charming people pleaser, and team-call Matt, who was harsh, scary and kind of rude. As time went by, the rude Matt started to show up in public events more often.
@sereedmedia "what do you mean with harsh": I was part of the jetpack leadership team between 2016 and 2018, and we had a recurrent call with M every two weeks (or monthly? Can't remember exactly). His role in the call was to be there stone-faced, and every time someone shared something positive, interrupt them to remember how we were still failing because jetpack wasn't reaching the grow level he expected.
@sereedmedia We were growing 30% yoy, but his expectation was 40%, so he was so nice to remind us how utterly we were failing every time he spoke with us. "us" being either "the leads" or "automattic at large" (every time jp was mentioned in any company-wide call he was so nice to remind everyone how the jetpack team was still failing). In my time there I didn't see him saying one single positive thing about anything the team had done. It was all dismissive comments and thinly veiled menaces
@sereedmedia so yeah, it looks what's going on here is that the community is finally getting the same version of Matt automatticians have been getting for years 🤷
Gina Peter Banyard@sereedmedia I've always had opinions (™) about WP management.
But one must love the hypocrisy of Matt considering:
> it's a good reminder that we can debate ideas and direction vigorously while not making it about the person, we should always search for deeper understanding, and we can disagree and commit and still work together the next day.
As always, rule for some people and other rules for myself does run supreme.
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Ivan Maljukanović 🏳️🌈I'm really saddened by this kind of behavior in the #WordPress community, by those who should be the most constructive part of it.
I've been listening to the #WPwatercooler podcast for years now, and I've never gotten an impression that you were anything but opened for a friendly discussion.
Change in the leadership of the .org project is long overdue. The only alternative to their bad behavior is to organize ourselves and take full advantage of the #openSource license!
@Imoptimal i appreciate your kind words. i am saddened by this too. I don’t want to lose my community, and I wonder if perhaps you are right about the alternative!