Category Archives: forums

Hair trigger: the epilogue

I had emailed ma.tt (formerly Matt) about the vanishing posts, and asked if it was now policy for staff to cover up forum mistakes, or if this was just a rookie (although it is reported that mtdewvirus has spent a lot of time in the .org forum) mistake.
Ma.tt implied that it was not policy to [...]

Moderator has a hair trigger

The new WordPress.com moderator (with the telltale staff-yellow background) who shall remain nameless (OK, a hint: virus) obviously doesn’t like to be corrected in the forums when he makes a mistake.
The moderator in question had mistakenly told a blogger that he was self-hosted when in fact the blogger had domain mapping to his own domain [...]