Comments on: Automatically Correcting The WordPress Mistake http://www.wptavern.com/automatically-correcting-the-wordpress-mistake Where Every Drink Is On The House Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:56:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mad Tomato http://www.wptavern.com/automatically-correcting-the-wordpress-mistake#comment-8616 Mad Tomato Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:08:52 +0000 http://www.wptavern.com/?p=4242#comment-8616 I guess I should aPologize to Matt for all the tyPos I've made. <em>Sorry, Matt. My bad.</em> :D I guess I should aPologize to Matt for all the tyPos I’ve made.

Sorry, Matt. My bad. :D

]]> By: Gil http://www.wptavern.com/automatically-correcting-the-wordpress-mistake#comment-8568 Gil Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:43:11 +0000 http://www.wptavern.com/?p=4242#comment-8568 Yeah -- it's silly. But the fact that it's SO silly and it won't be removed is what makes it really damn funny. Wrote a little blurb and produced a little cartoon about for fun... http://bit.ly/cGaFeJ - Just a fun excuse to play with STATE while poking some fun at the situation. Yeah — it’s silly. But the fact that it’s SO silly and it won’t be removed is what makes it really damn funny. Wrote a little blurb and produced a little cartoon about for fun… http://bit.ly/cGaFeJ – Just a fun excuse to play with STATE while poking some fun at the situation.

]]> By: Dre http://www.wptavern.com/automatically-correcting-the-wordpress-mistake#comment-8546 Dre Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:23:38 +0000 http://www.wptavern.com/?p=4242#comment-8546 I about lost it just now. I wasn't expecting that at 1am after a few BarleyPops! I about lost it just now. I wasn’t expecting that at 1am after a few BarleyPops!

]]> By: Justin Tadlock http://www.wptavern.com/automatically-correcting-the-wordpress-mistake#comment-8545 Justin Tadlock Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:53:53 +0000 http://www.wptavern.com/?p=4242#comment-8545 <blockquote> The capital "P" in WordPress sponsors episodes of WordPress Weekly. </blockquote> Via: <a href="http://capitalp.org/" rel="nofollow">CapitalP.org</a>

The capital “P” in WordPress sponsors episodes of WordPress Weekly.

Via: CapitalP.org

]]> By: Joshua Lynch http://www.wptavern.com/automatically-correcting-the-wordpress-mistake#comment-8531 Joshua Lynch Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:23:29 +0000 http://www.wptavern.com/?p=4242#comment-8531 Matt Mullwegg must have copy editor's blood like me. OK, maybe it wasn't the smartest move, but they do give millions of users a pretty powerful tool for free. So I think <a href="http://wpjourno.com/2010/07/07/automattic%E2%80%99s-wordpress-camelcase-filter-causes-storm%E2%80%94but-beggars-can%E2%80%99t-be-choosers/" rel="nofollow">we can let this slide</a> (or just remove it). I mean, it's not like they shipped an expensive product to millions of loyal customers that's pretty but sometimes works and other times doesn't, like--ahem--Apple. Cue the haters... Matt Mullwegg must have copy editor’s blood like me. OK, maybe it wasn’t the smartest move, but they do give millions of users a pretty powerful tool for free. So I think we can let this slide (or just remove it).

I mean, it’s not like they shipped an expensive product to millions of loyal customers that’s pretty but sometimes works and other times doesn’t, like–ahem–Apple. Cue the haters…

]]> By: Dre http://www.wptavern.com/automatically-correcting-the-wordpress-mistake#comment-8524 Dre Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:29:26 +0000 http://www.wptavern.com/?p=4242#comment-8524 The function makes sense, but M&M could have taken an all around better approach. The function makes sense, but M&M could have taken an all around better approach.

]]> By: Paul Cunningham http://www.wptavern.com/automatically-correcting-the-wordpress-mistake#comment-8522 Paul Cunningham Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:22:39 +0000 http://www.wptavern.com/?p=4242#comment-8522 Oh honestly.... Oh honestly….

]]> By: Doug Stewart http://www.wptavern.com/automatically-correcting-the-wordpress-mistake#comment-8511 Doug Stewart Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:29:12 +0000 http://www.wptavern.com/?p=4242#comment-8511 I think Andy Ihnatko's take (not on this issue, but on civility on the Internet[s]) is particularly germane: http://ihnatko.com/2010/07/07/monitoring-the-ongoing-abrading-of-common-courtesy-update-822/ To wit: <blockquote> <strong>You, personally, aren’t the most important person in the universe</strong>. You are the only important person in the universe. <strong>There can be no excuse </strong>for anybody failing to adhere to your privately-held and poorly-defined expectations. <strong>Never consider what life is like for anybody else.</strong> Filter everything that everybody else does through your own experiences and judge it against your random, ill-defined expectations of human behavior. <strong>Remember: as the recipient of the right eye of Odin,</strong> you have all knowledge of all things, instinctively; trying to see something from another perspective is just a waste of your valuable time and patience. <strong>If one of these idiots attempts to (oh for ****’s sake) defend their actions,</strong> you must react with either indifferent disdain or (better yet) outright hostility. Their so-called “explanation” can only be an attempt to bulls**t you. You’re too smart to let them trick you into double-guessing the validity of your immediate reaction to their choices; take immediate and violent offense that they even suggest that you’re not on to them. <strong>By steering the discussion away from the topic at hand,</strong> and onto the subject of how much they offended you and how they must now make amends, you’re putting the focus right back where it belongs. See point one. </blockquote> I think Andy Ihnatko’s take (not on this issue, but on civility on the Internet[s]) is particularly germane:

http://ihnatko.com/2010/07/07/monitoring-the-ongoing-abrading-of-common-courtesy-update-822/

To wit:

You, personally, aren’t the most important person in the universe. You are the only important person in the universe.

There can be no excuse for anybody failing to adhere to your privately-held and poorly-defined expectations.

Never consider what life is like for anybody else. Filter everything that everybody else does through your own experiences and judge it against your random, ill-defined expectations of human behavior.

Remember: as the recipient of the right eye of Odin, you have all knowledge of all things, instinctively; trying to see something from another perspective is just a waste of your valuable time and patience.

If one of these idiots attempts to (oh for ****’s sake) defend their actions, you must react with either indifferent disdain or (better yet) outright hostility. Their so-called “explanation” can only be an attempt to bulls**t you. You’re too smart to let them trick you into double-guessing the validity of your immediate reaction to their choices; take immediate and violent offense that they even suggest that you’re not on to them.

By steering the discussion away from the topic at hand, and onto the subject of how much they offended you and how they must now make amends, you’re putting the focus right back where it belongs. See point one.

]]> By: Mrmist http://www.wptavern.com/automatically-correcting-the-wordpress-mistake#comment-8509 Mrmist Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:02:37 +0000 http://www.wptavern.com/?p=4242#comment-8509 I think it's been the general air of contempt around this commit that has got to me. It's caused real users to experience issues (specifically those who keep images in a directory called Wordpress) and - most of them being non-technical and not following trac etc. - they'd have <em>no clue why it's happening</em>. If this had just been mentioned beforehand, all the grief could have been avoided, instead they've got a PR gaff and a whirlwind backlash. Unfortunately, the nature of some of the backlash, concentrating on tangent points and crying "revert, revert", seems to have meant that the proposed patches (which fix the bug if nothing else) are even less likely to be commited. I think it’s been the general air of contempt around this commit that has got to me. It’s caused real users to experience issues (specifically those who keep images in a directory called WordPress) and – most of them being non-technical and not following trac etc. – they’d have no clue why it’s happening.

If this had just been mentioned beforehand, all the grief could have been avoided, instead they’ve got a PR gaff and a whirlwind backlash.

Unfortunately, the nature of some of the backlash, concentrating on tangent points and crying “revert, revert”, seems to have meant that the proposed patches (which fix the bug if nothing else) are even less likely to be commited.

]]> By: Ipstenu http://www.wptavern.com/automatically-correcting-the-wordpress-mistake#comment-8507 Ipstenu Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:49:35 +0000 http://www.wptavern.com/?p=4242#comment-8507 @<a href="#comment-8498" rel="nofollow">Andreas Nurbo</a> - Aaaah! See I read 'force correct' as 'When I type in MicroSoft, Word magically flips it to Microsoft via auto-correct, and I have to pay attention and remember to switch it back.' In my mind? That <strong>is</strong> forcing a correction. You meant 'It changes it and won't let me change it back.' Which ... makes more sense now :) @<a href="#comment-8500" rel="nofollow">Raphael Mudge</a> - See, now AtD would have been the <em>perfect</em> application of this change! @Andreas Nurbo – Aaaah! See I read ‘force correct’ as ‘When I type in MicroSoft, Word magically flips it to Microsoft via auto-correct, and I have to pay attention and remember to switch it back.’ In my mind? That is forcing a correction. You meant ‘It changes it and won’t let me change it back.’ Which … makes more sense now :)

@Raphael Mudge – See, now AtD would have been the perfect application of this change!

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