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I could have sworn that picture is from 4chan. I downloaded a torrent containing it a rather long time ago.

My question about all this is what to do with the previous themes that aren't GPL'ed. Do they automatically become GPL'ed even though their designers say they're not?

Matt's been caught spamming before. This isn't the first time and I seriously doubt he'll learn from folks pointing it out to him this time.

Done. While I have a laptop, I know someone who could use this.

Thaks,
-drmike

Thanks for these links

They do this every so often. It requires a credit card to verify and they send you promo (ie spam) emails to get you to buy additional services.

He's done it before. When he booted the themes with sponsored links, he was caught doing it on his own sites. Not once, not twice but in fact there's links there now.

Sounds about right. Vaporware is a problem with every type of programming, not just PBBG.

@Jonathan Bailey - It's lots of fun from the other end as well. Best money I ever spent was for three Apple XServe Raid backup boxes. Saved my butt many times over.

As an aside, what's the plugin here that does the "reply - quote" links? It's very handy.

Jonathan, sorry to hear that you had such issues. I am glad you were able to restore the site. Just shows the importance of keeping up to date on backups.

Actually both Akismet and Typepad's Antispam have their servers as closed source.

My issue with it all is Matt using Akimset as his own personal censorship tool.

Only 1 questionable on wordpress.com? That seems low to me. I found just under 100 on Sunday in about an hour using Goolge's blogsearch and a few common terms typical of splogs. (ie Make money fast, the domains that cj.com use, etc.)

I've reported them but as of right now, they're all still online.

While I feel sorry for their clients who have been down, I don't feel that bad for the company. We have large portions of their space blocked at our routers due to continued spam and other abuse that never seem to get resolved or dealt with.

Dr. Mike Wendell's last blog post..If the grease doesn't get you, watch out for the booze

I’m sure they’ve contacted current users via email

Not until 7 days before their change over date. I lost about 20 gigs of files since I live on a disability check, it was the end of the month and there was no way for me to upgrade.

Details here

Hi Jonathan.

We've had them blocked now for about two months now at the firewall of our racks. I don't mind the service that they offer but allowing "their" content to be indexed and found by Google is a show stopper for us.

Another concern for us and our clients is that it appears that they are scrapping sites instead of just displaying what sites their users are viewing. I know that folks have used Workfriendly in the past to view my own personal blog but I seriously doubt they've viewed all 1k+ pages within it which is what WF had indexed of it.

Thanks for noting this,
-drmike

Was wondering about that. We were getting tens of thousands of these every day.

Thanks,
-drmike

Looks like LP finally announced a winner.

Test comment again as it appears that comments are being eaten when I leave a link.

Wordpress.com is not adsense free. Automattic runs it's own adverts on the site. I'd give a link but I'm trying to get a comment to show up here.

Please kindly do a Google search for 'Wordpress.com google adsense' and look for an article on the pascal.vanhecke.info site. It's currently the 6th one down on the first page of results.

I agree with Momofgrownupkids's comment. If they're old enough, give them a budget for the entire vacation. Make it a learning experience.

And, of course, yet again I don't get an answer. Why doesn't that surprise me?

Please explain to me why i should take this up with those over your head? You're not willing to deal with the complaint.

Matt, you've asked me nothing. Heck, an example of this was how you dumped the position on me without asking. I've even pointed that out to you a number of times and yet again you never replied.

However that 1/4th of the support was causing 90%+ of the complaints we were getting from users

That's interesting as I only ever received one complaint passed down to me that that was from Andy about not moving a single thread into the correct subforum. And he made that about 2 minutes after it was posted. Considering that I was doing it usually a dozen times a day, i just passed it off as he not having a clue as to what was going on. (And seeing his recent comments towards Rain, I think I was right.)

I've pointed this out to you a number of times as well but you've never responded. Kind of strange that you feel no ill will towards me but yet you couldn't take 2 seconds to send me an email saying that there was an issue. (I think I've pointed that out to you as well in the past and you've blown that question off as well.)

May I also ask why there has never been any follow up with my complaints? I find it rather strange that you'll bend over backwards for an enduser but yet could care less about those answering questions for you and covering your ass. (I think I've pointed that out as well and asked for a responce.)

I don’t bear any ill will towards any of you

That's funny Matt as last time I saw, you were making raciest and bigoted comments towards me. Oh, and Toni, thanks for ignoring that complaint. So glad you feel comfortable with hatecrime.

perhaps one of my resolutions should be to stop participating in these bash threads.

By the way, how come everytime someone disagrees with you, it's "bashing"? How about seeing both sides of the story as Mark recently suggested in the forums?

May I make some suggestions? How about working on stop lying? How about backing up and supporting your volunteers? How about answering emails? How about actually answering questions posed to you instead of spinning the topic? How about learning the words "please" and "thank you" How about watching the bigoted comments you recently made to me? How about actually listening to your end users like you say that you do?

you were sent emails from Mark and myself around when your mod status was removed

I received a single email from Mark which i copied and pasted to the forums along with my reply. There was never any follow up and my questions went unanswered. I received a single email from you asking why I appeared to be in a bad mood which I answered by pointing you to the forum thread and noted that I still was in the dark as to why I was removed. That went unanswered as well. Additional emails and questions about the situation have done unanswered as well by you. My complaint with Toni from back in June about your rudeness towards me has also gone unanswered.

The fundamental difference of opinion seems to be the quality of support people were getting on the forums.

If that is correct, please explain to me how you feel comfortable with your employees getting answers wrong to questions posed in the forums. Please also explain why you feel comfortable with Andy's recent rudeness as well.

Ditto. I wasn't asked. You blocked my forum account, Matt.

While I'm thinking about it Matt. I'm sitting here looking at the answers that Hanni and Telly give folks. Here's one for example. The answer is incorrect, shows that Hanni did not understand the question given, and I've got to question if she is even familiar with the software. I say that as this is not the first question she and Telly have given to be incorrect recently.

Please explain to me why you and Automattic feel that receiving an incorrect answer is acceptable and better than receiving a correct answer from a volunteer?

And would some please follow up on her incorrect answers?

Says they start voting on the 7th.

udreamofJanie

THAT'S THE ONE!

I was trying to remember which blog that was. Thanks.

They also seem to be closing more threads in the forums as well. While I hinted about the anal beads thread, Timethief"s one about her Akismet issue got closed and marked as resolved as well.