Another day of stochastic harassment for old time’s sake
Y esterday got…weird. My plans to spend a quiet lazy Saturday in the campus library, mind-mapping the structure for my MSc dissertation, were gone before I’d ever rolled out of bed.
In addition to having more pings than I could scroll through, my bleary eyes went straight to DMs from the friends that matter:
Apparently, “he” published a blog post on the official WordPress blog, not his personal blog, announcing to the world that he had cancelled my WordPress.org account.
Which I haven’t logged into since February 2020 – almost a full five years ago – which was when I retired from WP and all open source involvement, specifically because of the primary and secondary harassment that he threw onto me.
And which I haven’t even thought of logging into since then, because I have not been a member of the WP project, or any OSS project, since then.
Now the kicker here, folks, was the context. The blog post was about a proposed fork of WordPress which hasn’t actually been proposed, but facts don’t matter here. He was implying that forks are in the planning and that I am part of the team planning them.
