Okay, that isn’t the actual reply, this is the actual reply:
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—‘The blogger can follow the instructions in my previous reply to get Freshly Pressed. Feel free to contact us if you have any other questions.’—
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Which feels an awful lot like this…
‘The blogger’… really? That is how they refer to us??? It may have been naïve on my part to think they might actually like to get involved in this project to keep things interesting. But all we wanted was to find out what the current record for comments on one post is so we would know what number to shoot for, and they pretty much said this…
How hard would it be for them to look up the number? We didn’t beg them to freshly press the post, just look up a number, and the only number they gave us was number one…
To be honest, I didn’t contact them myself. My loyal Head Minion, Trent, from: http://trentlewin.com/ contacted them, because I am a computer moron, but that doesn’t really change the fact that this is how much support we are going to get from WordPress…
So I say we carry on with our plan. I say we try to get so many comments on one post that they have to take notice of us. I don’t think we have to take this…
We are the ones who make WordPress work… we are the bloggers… we are the ones who fill it with content… without us, this is just a big, empty space. So I say we turn that finger back around…
You can still be a part of blogging history and meet some nice new people.
And you can send a message to the overlords…
You can proudly raise the finger of revolution!!!
You do not have to turn the other cheek…
Because we are NUMBER ONE!!!
Join us! Stand up and be counted. Let’s all go down in history together!
But: ***Do not comment on this post***
The post we are breaking the record on is called: ***COMMENT HERE***
Here is a link to the post: https://pouringmyartout.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/this-is-not-a-post-about-this-post-this-is-about-breaking-a-record/
We already have 6, 492 comments.
We are going for 10,000… and beyond…
Pouring My Art Out 
They don’t care because they earned no money off of it. They only really care about people who pay for their WordPress sites. That’s why this whole platform went downhill a little over a year ago.
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Haha, Art, that picture of Fred Rogers is exactly the one I have in one of my posts.
He’s doing the “Where is Tall Man?” nursery rhyme (and as he was a deeply religious man, I doubt he’d ever really give anyone the finger), but that photo is still hilarious.
I had to add it…
That’s the one huge downfall of WP. They’re a nightmare to reach and not very helpful at all when one does get a response. It sucks!
Tell them that!
can’t reach them to do so and they won’t get back to me nor do they care. it sucks.
yup
Sadly, that’s how a lot of tech companies are… I can name Flickr as another example.
Yeah not fun
we are the people!
Exactly, and not very much that can be done about it. There’s a firewall of sorts unless an individual employee chooses and is able to help out.
That sounds like segregation… or a reverse concentration camp…
we feel so marginalized
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Okay, can you delete that please as it didn’t work 😦
I sort of like it…
That’s because you are odd 😆
it was like modern art
I have a word for modern art. And it starts with sh and finished with it and nothing in the middle lol
At the MOMA in SF, there is a stack of newspapers tied with a string… I shit you not.
OMG! So someone saw something beside a news vendor and said “I know, that’s art”. And yet if you make patterns on the walls with your own faeces, you get locked up
not where I come from
Why does that not surprise me? lol
uh…
Is that an emu serving drinks??? or an octopus with a gun…
It was supposed to be a finger
oh
That was a lot of fingers just there.
wave your fingers in the air like you just don’t care
I use paintbrushes like that
it hardly shows…. HA!
Ha!
that’s what I said
ok, you expected me to look at this and NOT comment here? cereal? I got hung up on the orangutan. I see his “hand” hands with his middle finger extended poking himself in both eyes with em, however I wonder what is in his “foot” hand? This could be offensive and get you kicked off for 4 days I hear. Or maybe I made that up. because I can’t find the question on that other post to see if you have answered it yet. I imagine you have and maybe when I have a day off I will read the entire comment part of that post. Until then I will continue to drop little pearls of wisdom there. but no more one word at a time. Although it was funny to see what you, Trent, and X did with that it was very annoying to post.
Just keep thinking that the stuff you are dropping are little pearls of wisdom… that is so adorable… meanwhile, I will have one of the minions shovel them up and add them to the pile… HA!
HA! be careful! you might get grounded again.
I just tweeted lady gaga to see if she can help us break this record… ha
you claim to be a technology moron yet you tweet. Isn’t that Contrary Mary? (sorry I couldn’t help myself) and you never told me what the orangutan is holding in his foot “hand”
I just found that on Google…
If you had any doubt of how WP feels …
It’s all about them making money and your comment record idea creates traffic which helps them…but it wasn’t their idea. “Awards”, challenges, and daily topics all linking blogs together creates more traffic and “builds more communities”? Who knows. Apparently they prefer a different direction…you’d think they would think it funny.
Timethief sometimes helps.
That is sort of what I figured.
at some point, you can’t be ignored…Buddy the Dog got freedom…you can get FP!…or maybe not…they are listening, right?…oh, sitting down quietly
Free Willy!!!!
Oh my goodness – you are so incredibly funny!! Good luck – I am going to comment on the other post now.
Yay… I need all the friends I can get when wordpress sends its robot army after me…
This is gonna be good.
I hope
Try timethief at http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/about/
She’s very helpful to us WordPress folk – knows more than anyone I’ve ever come across. Just ask her – she’ll reply. 10K!! 10K!!! 10K!!!
I will try it! Thanks.
Fair warning: Timethief can be incredibly blunt. But she is good and she likes to help people.
I’d be curious to know how the head minion’s message to WP was phrased. The reply posted here doesn’t seem to match any question that might have been asked.
Something’s being left out…
I will post question and reply on Comment Thread.
I asked her about it too… on some post called ‘are you going to be a successful blogger in 2014’
It was just a nice email explaining what we were doing and asking what the record was.
Yes… but that’s rather in the style of her technical writing (yes, she’s a technical writer). She doesn’t mince words. I’ve been in contact with her, so I have an idea. She is incredibly active on the Forums, tends to have one of the first few Likes on WP announcements– she really does want to help fellow bloggers out.
She was pretty nice… but not happy with me.
I sent her a comment on some post…
I’m on it – great tip!
tag team!
Questions away! I e-mailed her. She sounds like an authority.
Stop commenting here! Bad blogger!
ha