[wp-forums] Outstanding Forum Problems

[Vicki Frei]

On 1/19/2006 10:21:42 PM, Podz (podz at tamba2.org.uk) wrote:
> Link from the Semiologic site:
> "As a rule, I am for hire and you are on your own.
> Email sales @ semiologic.com if you are interested in paid support.
> The WordPress forums if you are not."
> 
> The words "WordPress forums" are linked as:
> <p>The <a href="http://wordpress.org/tags/semiologic"
> title="WordPress
> forums"
> onclick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outbound/wordpress.org');"
> class="external">WordPress forums</a> if you are not.</p>
> 
> That's where the tag is from.
> The tagging is nothing whatsoever to do with helping users when compared
> to the commercial aspects - it isn't
> rocket science to figure out.
> 
> Now - why should this commercial use be treated any differently to other
> stuff which we routinely edit ?

Podz, I'm in agreement with you on this one.  Contrary to Matt's previously 
stated "it's not fair" - THIS is not fair.... besides the scraping aspects of 
pagerank, there's also the fact that this way Denis doesn't have to "be 
bothered" with actually supporting his plugins on his own site, which is fairly 
silly since his site is in no way unusable for support I would imaging, like any 
other site.

And personally, considering the "semiologic theme" alone, I feel (having tried 
it myself) that it's actually a fork of wp.  Since we refuse support to users of 
K2 for this reason ("it's not a theme, it's a fork of the program"), it would 
seem that allowing Denis to use the wp support forum for his purposes should 
fall for the "semiologic theme" at least under the same restriction even if Matt 
wants to allow him to scrape pr etc. by using the wp forum for the rest of his 
plugins.

V

[Sorry - I don't think promoting ANY commercialization of wp for ANYONE but 
Matt/other devs and wp itself is a good idea on the forum.  Perhaps an unpopular 
attitude, but then that's life.]