[wp-forums] Outstanding Forum Problems

[Michael B]

My 2¢ and one of the 16 sides of the coin is this- if the powers that be
don't have a problem with plugin issues going into plugins forum, and the
threads are gettin tagged semiological, red alt, etc, and the plugin author
is coming in to support, then that is a good thing.  I generally ignore any
of the semiological threads, as I know Denis is very good about following
up, let's me look for threads where I can help, and someone won't be by
shortly to answer.
I have no problem with authors who are producing useful/popular  plugins and
supporting them via the forum getting a little "juice" for the hard work.


On 1/19/06, Vicki Frei <vkaryl at localnet.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/19/2006 3:46:44 AM, Podz (podz at tamba2.org.uk) wrote:
> > Michael E. Hancock wrote:
> >
> > > 3.  The forum tag feeds
> > aren't working--reported by Denis
> >
> > I have been wondering about this - and I just realised.
> > 'semiologic' is a tag, and it's
> > one I have been wondering about for a
> > while - why is it a tag ?
> >
> > Answer - I think - is that users of anything Semiologic are asked to
> > post any problems to the forum where the tag feed for 'semiologic' is
> > being pulled by Denis. Result is that semiologic users _may_ get more
> > help (given that on Denis' site he states that extra help is 'for
> > hire')
> > but that semiologic gets a much higher profile. Much higher.
> >
> > Tagsploitation ?
> >
> > I certainly see this as an abuse of tags, but then I jump to views very
> > quickly. It would be odd if I posted on my help pages that any problems
> > should be tagged 'tamba2' or 'Podz'
> > The argument that "it helps users get help" can be easily countered with
> > "install a forum".
> >
>
> I tend to agree with your assessment.... this isn't the venue for a rant,
> but I
> do feel it's exploitation.   And - light thickens - I had been wondering
> how he
> showed up to handle questions very shortly after their postings, duh!
>
> How about landing anything to do with semiologic, denis etc. in the
> stopwords list?
>
> V
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