The Saga of Harassment by Way2Enjoy:
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(Last Updated 22 May 2025)
January
Starting in January, Mr. Tiwari primarily targeted Mr. Mullenweg, taking advantage of the increased hostility between Mr. Mullenweg and WPEngine (a web hosting company). As other leaders in the WordPress community spoke up, and were subsequently banned from WordPress.org, Mr. Tiwari took to calling Mr. Mullenweg bipolar, and Mr. Wood ‘[Matt’s] pet dog’.
![‘[Matt’s] pet dog’](https://halfelf.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/IMG_0887.jpeg){kind=link}
In a post Mr. Tiwari made on Reddit, he started a poll asking if Mr. Mullenweg was a revengeful kid:
After 7 people voted ‘no’, he posited that those votes were from Mr. Mullenweg, Mr. Wood, and Mrs. Epstein:
Mrs. Epstein did not vote in his poll.
February
February continued with his ongoing complaints, replying to anyone who mentioned Mr. Mullenweg and the ongoing court case with WP Engine.
March
Mr. Tiwari continued his complaints on Reddit.
April
On Easter Sunday, 20 April 2025, Mr. Mullenweg issued what appeared to be a blanket amnesty to all banned accounts on Twitter:
Shortly thereafter, Mr. Mullenweg posted about a ‘Jubilee‘ on WordPress.org saying:
As I said, we’re dropping all the human blocks. Community guidelines, directory guidelines, and such will need to be followed going forward, but whatever blocks were in place before are now cleared. It may take a few days, but any pre-existing blocks are considered bugs to be fixed.
There was no explanation nor elaboration available for the specifics on what merited being unblocked.
Five days later, Mr. Tiwari asked if he would be unblocked, and claimed that Mrs. Epstein was not only still ‘harassing’ him, but also not suffering.
Perhaps it is the existence of this document that is considered to be harassment. Certainly Mr. Tiwari is aware of either this site, or follows Mrs. Epstein on social media, as he has begun to cite her public complaint about the ‘Jubilee’ (in short, a blanket amnesty is dangerous as some banned people are dangerous).
Posted on April 25th on Reddit:
Mrs. Epstein (and Mr. Wood) both received what was determined to be a credible death threat in 2017, resulting in an armed security guard being present at her talk. She is not the only person who has faced such things. There have been criminals and harmful individuals banned from WordPress events. Allowing “all” banned users back without any limits is asking for disaster.
May
On May 1st, WordPress.org posted a clarification of the ‘Jubilee’:
In short, it limited the unbanning to those banned since August 2024 (the month before WordCamp US 2024), and only those who were in compliance with the Code of Conduct and other WordPress.org guidelines.
Even so, Mr. Tiwari could not understand why he remained banned:
Respectful words like:
You have disrespect the Lord Balaji and Lord Shiva, You will get hardest punishment in coming days.
January 2019
and
u destroyed my life and i ll destroy urs.
February 2019
and by his own admission:
My apologies that I used some filthy languages to mika in past bit after 6 months and two times rejection of new fresh plugin I lost my patience.
March/July 2019
Regardless of the demonstrably disproven claim of always being respectful, his banning predates August 2024 by years.
When the restoration of accounts was completed on 21 May, Mr. Tiwari remained banned from WordPress.org.
