@bnrstnr said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
@quixoticjeremy yours is about the only one. Anybody joining the community has no idea what SAM has vested interest in. Everybody here suggests products, it would be much better to be able to tell who sells what they're promoting. I can't remember the name of the company, but the WordPress provider convo last week was ridiculously long and heated trying to figure out the truth, when in fact it could have all been easily avoided if there was somewhere that listed who sells what...
Well no, not in that case. If you looked, there was no recommendation. That was a disgruntled ex-community member making things up to make trouble. The "making recommendations" part of was made up. That the web host wasn't public yet was the issue and I had made a joke about it and he seized on the fact that it was mentioned to try to make it look like I was making loads of recommendations (he never produced any) and that I was hiding something (I was, I was hiding the company completely because the website wasn't even done yet.) So that would not resolve issues like, unfortuantely.
Funny enough, that Hostadillo thread was going on during a Sodium announcement.
What would have been handy would have been if the person making the fake accounts had said who they were. That was the actual part that was hidden. They were using a VPN to hide their location and make fake accounts under fake names and never admitted who they were. That's the bigger issue, really, that they had someone making false claims (he / she claimed to work for Grove Social in the past, but had not) and never admitted who they were or who they represented.