[wp-forums] Outstanding Forum Problems

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Michael B wrote:
> 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.

I do - and here's why.

First, I would very much favour some way for a plugin / theme author to
be able to tag their work (all of it with a single tag) and for that to
be a feed. If a plugin author is after feedback, this is a way to do it.
And for that tag to be concealed from all - including Google.

My problem though relates to success.
If I wrote a very useful plugin, I wrote an excellent readme, and I took
time on my site to answer comments left to the point that I served my
users extremely well so they did not need the forums, where is my 'wp
juice' ?
On the other hand .......... my cup would overflow.

This is NOT to say that was the original thinking that prompted my post
- far from it. I just expanded on the "juice" sentence.

P.