The Exchanges

Every argument clarity score on this site is built from rows on this page. Each question and answer was assessed with names hidden, the host's own answers included, on four things from 1 to 5: directness (does it answer the question asked), coherence (do the ideas follow), precision (concrete details and clear references), compression (says a lot per word). The weighted mix (30/30/25/15) is the exchange score. A person's published score averages their exchange scores on raw tape only, at least 8 of them, shrunk toward the cohort mean. Full method →

Matt Mullenweg no published score: only 2 usable exchanges on raw tape, and a fair score needs 8+ record → ← everyone

Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Answered raw tape D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q I just think it's sometimes it's, it's complicated where to draw the line, isn't it? Where to draw that line on monetizing when you've got this broad base. I don't know that the answers are always obvious.

A I always go back to the customer, and we're really getting value. Yes. We do a lot of really hard, complicated things. Some which are invisible to users, some which are visible. And I love business models, which are subscription models, where the user's paying for something they get value out of. I don't love it where I'm like, I don't love advertising models or other things where I'm like trying to gather a lot of people and then sell them to someone else. We do that as well. We're business. It's a good business model for some of our things, but what I prefer and what I cherish is that direct one-to-one subscription, that relationship with the customer, that sacred act of them taking out their credit card and saying, Hey, I value what you make. And I'm going to pay you for it. And what I want to build is a business of as many of those subscribers as possible.

AI assessment note: “what I prefer and what I cherish is that direct one-to-one subscription”

Answered raw tape D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30

Q for a while. You've been blogging for a while. You've been blogging. You've had a birthday post for 20 years. It's 43% of the web, but is blogging what it was? How do you think about what? Cause I'm still all in on blogging, right? I've got three blog, three pieces of content a day for 11 years. But is blogging on the decline? How do you think about that?

A So blogging did decline for a while. Yeah. And why did the tick? Why? Because Distribution got really fragmented. Spam. Websites got bad, right? There were all these pop-ups and there were slow load and everything like that. We fixed all that. So now it's cool to see it coming back where people, what they want, what a blog, what people loved about a blog was that person's voice. Yeah. Their story. They're like that, that authentic connection to someone like yourself that has something, some wisdom they want to share, a story they want to tell. That Is timeless. That will never go out of style. That will outlive both you and me. And so every single person has like a birthright to have a place where they could put their stuff. Yeah. That will be there forever. And that's what we try to create with WordPress and, and it should be fully open source. And that's what we do. And that personal website, the most awkward part of this is the domain, but we try to make it easier on wordpress.com to like get it all set up and started.

AI assessment note: “blogging did decline for a while. Yeah. And why did the tick? Why? Because”

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