I really want to start with this: I think that tattoo looks beautiful and I'm in no way against people putting whatever art they want on their body.

I've used the increase of WordPress tattoos as an example of the "cult-like" mentality that's been creeping into the community over the last 2 years. In my experience whenever there is a point of contention or a discussion taking place, people are less willing to hear different points of view and then make their own mind up than they were in the past.

In my personal experience, people who have such a love for something that they have it's logo tattoo'd on their body for life, are rarely objective. A lesson I learned a long time ago from going to meet-ups (such as DrupalCon and WordCamp) was to not talk to anyone wearing clothing with the subject matter on it. For me, tattoo's fall into that camp.

@Ted Clayton -

I couldn't agree more. Obviously I love WordPress, but you'd be amazed at how often smaller agencies and development houses come to pitches with WordPress as their CMS of choice, regardless of that the job is, or if WordPress is capable of the task. WordPress is awesome at what it does, but lets be blunt, it doesn't do a lot.

Heck, even the WordPress store that was built this year by WordPress Core Devs runs on JOOMLA!!

And that's ok! We need to start looking at WordPress objectively, promote it's good points and acknowledge the bad points. For me, the "cult-like" attitude is when we start taking guidelines and making them into doctrine. When we change "you should" to "Thou Shalt", then I think we've hit a problem.

Have a wonderful New Year