Well I guess maybe a year and a half old ToS is pretty close to two years old. (Maybe we complained about not having one for what seems like almost two years) Too bad it’s just another example of where Automattic can’t get it’s policies all together on the same page.

I mentioned a little while ago that BrowseHappy.com, a site operated by WordPress (.org? Automattic? Unclear…) had a Google affiliate ad for Firefox with Google Toolbar; the person who publishes said ads gets a dollar or so each time someone…

Maybe Matt will now add an IE7 section to BrowseHappy so he has an excuse to keep plugging his silly little fansite

End users don’t see the internal politics.

True, but while over the years Matt has become more adept at spinning his errors of judgment so that he comes out looking better than ever, one day the team’s ineptness at dealing with customers is going to turn around and bite them. Hard. The Turkey thing died down because Americans don’t care about Turkey, and the few who do were happy to frame it as a free-speech issue with wordpress.com as the plucky little bloghost standing up against Teh Evil Oppressor. The more pertinent questions of whether the initial complaints were in fact ignored and whether the blogs were in fact libellous were brushed aside. It might not be so easy to handwave those things next time round.