In reply to Peter Knight (@peterrknight).

Sorta kinda,

Last night we had seven (eight counting myself) Wordpress folks at our local "Have some beer (call it suds night) get together". All forms of tech folks, java, database folks, .NET people etc. Eventually it always splinters off into clicks. I tend wander around as I am not a one technology kinda developer. I learned last week for example a ton of fantabulous resources for creating high performance database architectures.

Last night I mentioned to the seven other WP people there if they saw the info about the aquisition of Woo on the WPT. Two said, "no". One said what is the WPT and the others all wont even come here. I asked why and was told they feel they have no place here basically. I dug a bit deeper as I dont want piss anyone off, but they basically said that free flow of dialog doesnt happen. I responded to that and said, "Well, its understandable as the site is one of the main outlets of WP information". The response was generally, "Thats right. They own it so its just a metered blog of promotion."

I disagreed. Then one of the people (works for a design firm) asked me if I was aware of stack exchange. Of course. He said more useful information passes through there in a few hours than this place in a week. I told him, yes, development wise certainly.

So I told them, "look... It was suggested to me by WPT that I actually set up a Blog site as my dialog doesnt often fit WPT, do any of you care author content?". Three no's, 1 Yes, 1 maybe and two (the design firm guys) "We have to ask if we can".

Go figure. Anyone see paradoxical anything in that? LOL