No Sponsored Links in Themes? Fine.
Weblog Tools now says it won't show sponsored themes. That's fine. I just thought, good for them, when I read it. Then ol' Matt nuts everywhere and jumps on the bandwagon. Then ol' shoey says fuck matt. And now I've had to form an opinion about this. Dammit. I didn't feel like doing that today.
All links in my footer are now gone. That includes that nice little link to wordpress.org. Hey, I guess you're sponsoring all the themes, and since we can't have sponsored links, it's gone. Link to the theme? Also gone. Link to the famfamfam icons? Also gone. But the last two don't have to worry, I added them to the about page.
Now, they might be meaning just the themes sponsored by Joe Shmoe Auto Care that has nothing to do with the theme or wordpress. But you know what? Fuck it. All the links are benefiting someone. The theme makers gets links back to their site, which could make money by showing some advertisement. Wordpress gets exposure so more people might sign up for a wordpress.com account.
But I'm not going to discriminate against links. Either all or none are there. Even though I'll never download and use a theme that's advertising for Janson's Brother's Funeral Home, some people might. But if they're censored like this, very few people will.
And it's not that I condone those kind of sponsored links, I would just rather do it out of spite toward Matt. There's just something about him that just makes me hate him.
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