[wp-forums] Hmm...

[Michael Bishop]

Why exactly is that? There's a donate link on the plugin pages. I agree
that soliciting paid support or offering to pay by the hour to fix
something should be discouraged, but general donations to plugin devs
should if anything be encouraged.



On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org>wrote:

> If anything the OP needs a gentle 'Hey, don't offer to pay' nudge.
>
> On Jun 19, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Michael Bishop <miklb at miklb.com> wrote:
>
> > That's not a solicitation from the dev. Is the concern that he reminded
> the
> > person of their offer?
> >
> > That is a very popular plugin and looking at it's support forum, 39/44
> > threads have been marked resolved.  So obviously the dev is helping
> users,
> > and quick glance I didn't see any other mentions of donation from dev.
> >
> > I honestly don't see anything wrong with the reminder, but that's just my
> > opinion.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Kathryn Presner <zoonini at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>> I don't see any solicitation in that thread, just "looking forward to
> >>> getting" as if in some other exchange the user the dev helped said he
> was
> >>> going to make a donation.
> >>>
> >>> Is there some other mention?
> >>
> >> Yup - right in the original post:
> >>
> >> "I promise I will donate if that plugin will work finally as I hope it
> >> can!"
> >>
> >> kp
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