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By: Criticizing or supporting trends without revealing monetary interests » Reader Appreciation Project

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:03:29 +0000

[...] the most effective way to get Matt to listen to something. Matt himself has used the word “rats” to refer to his opposers and everyone who supported the idea of having paid links in another [...]

By: Zaigham

Zaigham — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:14:40 +0000

Well done Matt!
Just wanted to say thanks for supporting the project. Its a very nice example.

By: Tom T.

Tom T. — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:19:59 +0000

Great Matt. I love happy endings! Isn’t the web wonderful? Nothing but decent people all around

(possible exception: He whose name shall not be mentioned but is known for promoting anyone who tosses a penny his way…)

By: David J.

David J. — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:25:46 +0000

A great big thank you on behalf of all of Open Source.
Matt, well done.

Now if everyone else would open their wallets along with their mouths!

By: vivek

vivek — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:35:57 +0000

Great news and I just wanna say thanks for supporting project

By: Stas Sushkov

Stas Sushkov — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:14:08 +0000

I suppose some guys should apologize this case?! Matt approved his role in Open Source development one more time! Respect for you.

By: Alex Brola

Alex Brola — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:42:05 +0000

Great work. Appreciate it.

By: Michael Beech

Michael Beech — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:34:24 +0000

Much respect Matt … I would say your mouth and money are both in a good place

By: Gerard McGarry

Gerard McGarry — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:32:54 +0000

Fair play, Matt. I had thought you were being slightly evangelical when you mentioned this initially, but to donate to a project which potentially competes with BB Press is a nice move.

It’s also nice to see that Mark also listens to what the users are saying.

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:45:07 +0000

Good move

By: Paveo

Paveo — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:30:52 +0000

Good news, thank you too, Matt.

By: Michael Hessling

Michael Hessling — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:19:04 +0000

Kudos to you, sir!

By: Incoherent Babble » Blog Archive » Vanilla: Link-Free Once Again

Incoherent Babble » Blog Archive » Vanilla: Link-Free Once Again — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:19:00 +0000

[...] Matt’s announcement that the text-links had been removed from the free Vanilla forums package, I thought it was a good [...]

By: Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:17:37 +0000

Awesome work! Thanks for the update Matt.

I’ll go ahead and remove the nofollow now

By: Lady

Lady — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:17:27 +0000

A thousand dollars? Man, I wish I had that amount of money to pay the bills. It sucks being in the red. :*(

By: sean yeomans

sean yeomans — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:10:01 +0000

lol rats, I love it!