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Subscribing to youtube channels can be cumbersome, and not everything is on YouTube. It'd be nice to browse all the good talks in one place. I'm thinking of building that place, but maybe I'm missing a piece of the internet and someone has already built that?
So I decided to let WPExplorer know, and tweeted @WPExplorer. Soon after, I discovered, that WPExplorer is actually following me, so I deleted the tweet and sent a DM on Twitter instead.
The next day, suddenly @WPMUdev on Twitter wakes up and starts asking me to provide the link of the article to "further investigate the accusation". To which I politely declined a couple of times. At the time I didn't realize that the link has been long cached in archive.org and I wanted to give WPExplorer time to decide on his own what to do about that before WPMU "inspects" the issue.
I'm very disappointed seeing such behavior from a huge site like WPMUdev. I was under the assumption that copy pasting articles was what low level "SEO hacking" sites do, not the "big guys".
Isn't this shameful amongst blogs and websites ? Is it okay to publish "inspired" ( or copied ) content without mentioning the original author ?
As @TimothyBowers said, I could have emailed them directly, but instead I started a public conversation ( https://twitter.com/TimothyKBowers/status/666362562666172417 ). Because of it I guess I am obligated to provide WPMUdev with all the details that they require or they won't leave me be on Twitter. Well - You wanted it public, you got it.
Twitter conversation: https://twitter.com/justnorris/status/666363207557189632 Link to the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20150421051207/https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/10-drag-and-drop-page-builders-wordpress/
p.s. I am by no means a writer, so excuse my writing style and form. Thank you for reading through my public rant :)