Perspectives With Sé Reed  🔗 **Source:** [Perspectives With Sé Reed](https://share.snipd.com/episode/9e0180ae-8da1-4dcf-a6ae-8c1b72e0f63b) ## Highlights - **Account Deactivation Then Jubilee Reactivation** - Sé Reed described being deactivated from WordPress.org and later reactivated during the Jubilee, calling the experience “shocking” and damaging to her reputation. - She noted lack of notification at deactivation and that she was told not to discuss certain reasons, which left her isolated from some community activities. Transcript: Jonathan Of being one of the few people to be identified for account deactivation by Matt Mullenweg. Luke We're just getting right into it. Sé Reed Okay. Softballs, we don't need you. Jonathan So when I think about who might have a unique perspective on WordPress, both as an ecosystem, the project, the community, you've been pretty high on my list for a while. So I wanted to bring you on to Crossword and learn and talk about your perspective. Figure out what's going on over there. So I'll start with this one. When Matt did his post about JK Press, which was an interesting piece for a number of reasons, and your name was referenced in that post. It was. What was that experience like for you? Sé Reed That sucked is what it did. And it has not been great since, honestly. It was shocking. Shocking is kind of the best word. Interestingly, when that post came out, my account had already been banned. Jonathan Okay. Sé Reed Uh that post uh came out and said i uh said that the accounts of yo scream myself heather yes and uh morton rand hendrickson would be banned um i i have the time stamps of the bannings so. So you'd already been deactivated before the post. Yes, I had already been deactivated before that came out. And I had no idea that was – I don't believe it was related. Yeah. I don't believe that that was like, oh, now we're going to write this. So I was just kind of shoehorned in there. But, yeah, two days prior I had been deactivated and I had messaged and been like, oh, what's up? I didn't use any clown emojis, so I'm not sure why my account's not working suddenly. You know you're on Slack. Well, you probably don't know, actually. So I'll tell you how it is. You're on Slack and you've got, you know, all your little icons open on the left, you know. Yeah. And then suddenly one just gets a little, like, alert, like a little warning symbol. That's what happens. Just a little, like, blip. And it it gets that little like. Your account's been deactivated. Jonathan Yeah. Sé Reed Yeah. And I click over and I was like, oh, you're no longer logged in. And it's like. So I had gotten no notification or anything. Jonathan So that was in January of 25. It's now well into Are you still deactivated? Hmm. Sé Reed Well, glad you asked. So I was reactivated with the rest of the, uh, folks in that, well, I don't actually know if Heather. Yeah. During the Jubilee. Exactly. I don't actually know if Heather and Morton were reactivated. They had already left the community prior to that, multiple years prior to that. But I was reactivated in May of 2025 with the Jubilee. I was one of the Jubilee recipients. ([Time 0:04:00](https://share.snipd.com/snip/a17ae90f-6ce0-481e-8cd8-f546db7a6b37))