In high school when 5% of your class doesn’t like you it’s like 3-5 people.
Running a company of 1,700+ when 5% doesn’t like you, that’s 85 people! That fills a room.
150k followers and 5% don’t like you now you have a small stadium of 7,500 people.
It’s still 5%.
Such a solid way to look at it! Growth comes with more support but also more critics. Can’t let the numbers get to you when it’s all just part of the game!
5% is a consistent percentage, but the scale changes with the size of the group. The more people involved, the more noticeable even small percentages become. It’s a good reminder of how perception shifts with context and scale, but ultimately, the ratio remains the same.
Things is it’s now closer to 50% than 5% and if you keep going it will get to 50% of the WordPress community
Most of us are sympathetic with your issues with wpengine. But being selfish, petulant, and vindictive is not the way to bring about change.
When you look back an extra billion is not going to compensate you for ruining your legacy. Please change direction and be the leader we once admired
You should spend more time at WordCamps and in the .org community areas and less time wherever you’re getting what makes you think it’s 50%, probably X/Twitter.
As The Repository just wrote the sentiment there is way out of line with everywhere else.
The problem is that negativity is more powerful than positivity. That 5% can make your life hell and ruin your entire day. You’re just starting your morning, and someone says the most ridiculous thing about you—and worse, people seem to agree with it.
The real issue is that they call it criticism, and if you respond, they say you’re out of line. But bullying, hating, and tearing someone down is not criticism.
For example, I may not 100% agree with something you do in WordPress, and I might wish it could be better. But there are two important things:
1. You are the one who started and guided all of this, and that alone earns the utmost respect.
2. A disagreement should never justify disrespect in any way.