[wp-forums] The subtle distinctions between self promotion and assistance

[ipstenu at ipstenu.org]

Marking him as a bozo for now will make it easier to ... monitor? For  
lack of a better term.

My issue is that lately he's taken to just replying to people "My  
plugin will fix it!" when that's actually not the case.  He says he  
wants to help, and his track record really does indicate that, yes,  
he's a good guy at heart, but he's ... trying to hard?  I'm not sure  
how else to say 'Dude, your plugin isn't the solution for EVERYONE.  
Listen to what they're saying, understand THEIR problem, and solve it  
for them. Not you.'

And this post was 100% shameless self promotion:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-new-tool-for-blog-developers?replies=1&view=all#post-2054183

There were a couple others I've deleted that were just ... He was  
acting like an annoying API bot on Twitter 'You said Communist! Red  
Scare Bot will tweet at you, now!'

That was why I pointed out that if you're on the forums to support  
your plugin, fine.  But if you're here to HELP, then you need to be  
altruistic and provide help WITHOUT just pimping your stuff.

Quoting Mark Duncan <wp-t31os at ntlworld.com>:

> Been having a read through his site and support topics and i think  
> he has well placed intentions for the most part, i'd love to see a  
> positive solution in place of adding another user to the long list  
> of spammers..
>
> Perhaps someone could outline the issues we have, and give him  
> directions on what to do to correct those problems, this at least  
> gives the user an opportunity to turn a negative reaction into a  
> positive one..
>
> Just my .2 ..
>
> Mark / t31os
>
> On 13/04/2011 12:20, Jane Wells wrote:
>> On 4/13/11 7:19 AM, Mika A Epstein wrote:
>>> If no one has by the time I'm off the train and in the office, I'll
>>> strip his links.
>>>
>> On second thought, in light of the post esmi linked to, let's just mark
>> him as spam.
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