Matt Mullenweg trying to change /r/Wordpress to /r/WordPress

25 pointsposted 12 hours ago
by rob
(old.reddit.com)

14 Comments

solardev

11 hours ago

That's one way to increase your capitalization.

claudiulodro

12 hours ago

The title of this somehow makes it sound nefarious, but if you read the linked thread, the mods themselves say they tried before and the Reddit admins said they couldn't do it. Matt went to spez and got special approval, so this is actually helping the subreddit, no?

CtrlAltDelete51

11 hours ago

My concern is why does Matt care all of a sudden? The timing is … suspicious. Especially with the trademark dispute — this feels like Matt trying to shore up a defense or something.

Lalabadie

11 hours ago

To have a history of trademark enforcement would be my guess, but I think we're all learning that Matt is way over his head, probably from before the whole WPE situation. There's no consistent strategy or narrative.

What I got from other sources is that Automattic's finances in general are not looking too good, and this is just one very public occurence of a flailing, under qualified CEO trying to be hands-on to solve the situation.

chomp

10 hours ago

I’ve worked with Matt’s team while I was in the hosting industry- Matt has always cared very deeply about it being called WordPress. I’ve written recursive web crawlers to alert us on miscapitaizations for this specific issue, even 10 years ago.

echoangle

11 hours ago

It would be hilarious if it’s to get a history of trademark enforcement, I don’t think you can do that after 10 years of no enforcement and after already being in litigation.

Lalabadie

7 hours ago

If that's what he's doing, I eagerly look forward to the judge's choice of language.

claudiulodro

11 hours ago

The simplest non-conspiracy theory is that he didn't regularly visit that subreddit until recently.

infecto

11 hours ago

Seems correct but the timing is interesting

tiffanyh

11 hours ago

I imagine that if you’re suing one company over trademark infringement, you need to demonstrate that you aren’t solely singling just one party out.

sccxy

12 hours ago

Next step is 8% of each self-hosted WP revenue.

user

11 hours ago

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yurishimo

11 hours ago

You know what, it’s about damn time! Seeing how Matt has always been about small communities it’s wild to me that this didn’t bother him sooner.

But really, this doesn’t affect anyone negatively. Live and let live I say.