Yesterday we noted how a moderator of the WordPress Support Forum was getting in the way of people looking for help dealing with the exploitation of a fixed vulnerability in the plugin Simple 301 Redirects – Addon – Bulk Uploader. Today, when we went back to the topic that was the source of that post we found that many of replies on that topic, including almost of all the ones we had quoted, had been removed. In total, only 3 of the previous 11 replies remained. Some of those removed pointed out how what the moderator was doing was bad for the WordPress community. The moderators replies were also removed. You can see the replies at that time of previous post here and what is there at this moment here. That is in line with the kind inappropriate behavior by those moderators we have seen for years and had led to us starting a protest against it nearly a year ago.

You can get a better understanding of the mess that is moderation and related poor handling of the Plugin Directory from the message left earlier today by a moderator, Ipstenu (Mika Epstein), who also leads the six person team running the Plugin Directory (with our commentary inserted): [Read more]