Wordpress has updated its code of conduct with a new rule: if Matt DMs you something unhinged, you can’t leak it.

[jacob@social.jacobian.org]

Wordpress has updated its code of conduct with a new rule: if Matt DMs you something unhinged, you can’t leak it.

I’m _barely_ joking: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/protect-private-conversations/

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@jacob "No, you see, this is for your protection. And also for my protection. But also for your protection"

[flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange]

@jacob The next CoC change will be:

[mahryekuh@fosstodon.org]

@jacob This rule might already be superfluous in GDPR areas.

Not that this change has to do with privacy, we all know that here.

It's telling when someone can dish out but doesn't want to receive.

[onepict@chaos.social]

@jacob someone needs to temporarily remove Matt from all machinery, surrounded by trees and no wifi for a month.

Or like the naughty step I don't mind. Where's supernanny when you need her?