@Chip Bennett -

I would love to hear the context for that statement

At a WordPress un-conference in the second half of this year, [one of the Core Team] opened their presentation with a slide on who they were, and their second slide was on what makes the WordPress community great. That second slide had 4 boxes in it, one of the boxes was "Vocal Minority", and the quote was:

“Never listen to the Vocal Minority – even if they’re right.”

For me the whole conversation was a real eye opener.

Sitting next to Mike Little (WordPress co-creator from Stockport, England) and one of the someone wearing a "WordPress: Made in Texas" T-Shirt (so not cool it's unreal), as this core team member dismissed any issues from the last year as simply people looking for things to moan about (capital P, bbpress, backpress); it finally sunk in. We're not a community of people with different opinions anymore, we're very much in an us and them mentality.The funny thing, the lack of that mentality is what attracted me to WordPress in the first place.