I can't see how Yoast needs any more exposure. They're the equivalent of Coca-Cola in the WordPress world - everyone's heard of them, most use them already.

Seems like a pretty risky move, but the owner has historically been controversial so wouldn't be too surprised.

https://wptavern.com/yoastcon-overshadowed-by-twitter-storm-...

Actually the comments indicate that the "controversy" seems to be imagined by many people. By the way, I don't know anything about Joost, so he may not be innocent. But the article is an excellent example of an inability to distinguish between consensual but obnoxious stuff and clearly non-consensual behavior.

Also read the comment by Jenny Halasz, it seems very telling: "I had the audacity to start a thread on twitter where I suggested that perhaps we should ask the women involved if they were being harassed before we leveled accusations at the supposed harasser.

For my trouble, I got called a woman hater, an enabler, and plenty of other terrible things (now conveniently deleted by the people who said those awful things: Cohen, Rayner, a handle by the name of callis1987, and Forden)"

>>Did you create this account just to do that?

Yes I did, because I don't have any other account to use on HN. I am not sure what you are implying here.