[wp-forums] Ethical Obligations for WordPress Users

[Chip Bennett]

I fail to see what is "shady", "snake oil", or "spammy" about the use case?

It is nothing more than a means to allow users to "schedule" a 30-minute
block of time to do "A", while also committing to do "B". What am I missing?

Chip

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Jan Dembowski <jan at dembowski.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Andrew2.Nevins wrote:
>
> Are there any implications for persons that use WordPress to promote shady
> > business?
> >
> >
> >
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/suggestions-needed-best-way-to-take-appointments-from-non-website-members?replies=1
> >
>
> People can use free software for any purposes that they like and that snake
> oil pitch is not even the worst of it. *shudder*
>
> It a small price to pay for having a free platform. It would be nice if
> everyone's ethical compass worked but that topic shows that's not always
> the case.
>
> We're under no obligation to reply or support that nonsense. In my opinion
> that's really grey in that the user is asking how to pull that off with the
> software. Any reply from me would be basically "Seriously, are you for
> real?" which would not be helpful one way or the other.
>
> I'll keep an eye on that topic, if it gets (more) spammy then I'll shut it
> down. Or maybe another moderator will zap it, that works too.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jan Dembowski
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