In a post yesterday, we covered that those in charge of WordPress didn’t know how people could appeal being banned from WordPress. That came during a question and answer stream with the new Executive Director of WordPress.org, who wasn’t selected by the community, but is instead was hired by Matt Mullenweg’s company Automattic to have that role. Similarly, the previous person in that role (under the title Executive Director of WordPress) was an Automattic employee in charge of their team that was involved in WordPress. The new Executive Director had so little involvement with WordPress before being named to the role that her account on the website was created the same day she was announced for the role. Matt Mullenweg didn’t acknowledge their employment with Automattic when announcing them in that role. WordPress is far from a meritocracy.
In a recent article on the “culture of fear” inside WordPress, the banning of community members was mentioned several times, including in this paragraph: [Read more]