[wp-forums] Dhoppe at it again

[Chip Bennett]

Actually, per the current, detailed
guidelines<http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/guidelines/>,
admin advertising is NOT allowed [*emphasis *added]:

*In general, things like banner or text link advertising should not be
anywhere in a plugin, including on its settings screen.* Advertising on
settings screens is generally ineffective anyway, as ideally users rarely
visit these screens, and the advertising is low quality because the
advertising systems cannot see the page content to determine good ads. So
they're best just left off entirely. Putting links back to your own site or
to your social-network of choice is fine. If the plugin does include
advertising from a third party service, then it must default to completely
disabled, in order to prevent tracking information from being collected
from the user without their consent. This is the method commonly known as
"opt-in".


I'm sure there's some gray area there; I'm also quite sure on which side of
that gray area these particular Plugins fall, if they solicit multiple
support topics from end users.

Use that as you will; personally, I think his disrespectful attitude toward
the community - and especially toward his own end users - has no place in
the WordPress  community.

Chip

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org>wrote:

> Advertising IN the plugin admin is allowed (if asshattery IMO).
>
> But GPL vio... Can you point to one specifically?
>
> ----
> Mika A Epstein (aka Ipstenu)
> http://ipstenu.org
>
> On 14 Mar 2012, at 10:07:46AM, Francisco de Azevedo wrote:
>
> > From the research I made, it seems that several of his plugins (past and
> > present) have violated GPL, included very spam-like ads in the admin
> > section, and asked for very expensive compensations for premium versions.
> > In a word, his attitude is not very wordpressy, so blocking him would not
> > constitute a huge loss for WP users, IMHO.
> >
> > Marventus
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-associated-posts-lite-spam?replies=7&view=all
> >>
> >> Basically he's insulting people who use (or want to use) his plugin.
> He's
> >> done this before. Seehttp://
> >> lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-forums/2011-June/007085.html
> >>
> >> At this point, he's basically being an ass. I'd block him, but he has
> >> plugins... Should we just punt him? He's not helping anyone.
> >>
> >>
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