[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #3931: "proudly powered" is too much, really. And the link to XFN, too.

[WordPress Trac]

#3931: "proudly powered" is too much, really. And the link to XFN, too.
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 Reporter:  dllmain         |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  low             |   Milestone:  2.2      
Component:  Administration  |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:           
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 Please take a minute to think about this:

 By default any Wordpress installation comes with:
  1. the footer saying "proudly powered by !WordPress"
  2. the sidebar linking to the Xhtml Friends Network.

 Both is bad and here is why:

 1.) !WordPress is great but not because you say so but because it is.
 People use !WordPress, people like it but they sure are not proud
 of it. I guess the devs are and have reason to but not the users.
 You put that in their mouth and you should not do that!

 2.) Same here again: Do not put words in the mouth of your users.
 If you want to promot XFN do it on your site. This is abusing the
 user - don't do this.

 Linking back to !WordPress itself is fine but these two are
 way too much. Please think about this. XFN has enough links now:
 please remove it. I have two fix these two by hand each update
 and I'm sick of it. Now is the time to do the right thing.

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