[wp-forums] dealing with fundamental CSS, PHP, and HTML topics?

[Mika A Epstein]

My issue with that is two-fold.

1) You paid for it. You should get support.

2) If it's a pay-for-support deal, we're making it harder for people to 
earn a living in WP.

The second reason is really why I do it. I love ThemeHybrid, and the 
code is free, but Justin asks you to pay for support. It's not a huge 
amount, and if this is really your 'life!' (tm the guy I argued with 
last week), then FFS, pay the $25 and grow up. Justin deserves to be 
able to make a living.

Also in the cases where premium themes eff off and refuse to help, well, 
that's good too. Why? They get people running away in droves.

> Mar Ventus <mailto:marventus.wp at gmail.com>
> October 4, 2012 1:00 PM
> Hi, guys!
> Since you opened the "what should be added to the Forum Welcome" debate
> (and yeah, it is too late to back down now, heehee), what do you think
> about reinforcing the "no support for premium themes" rule? Lately, I've
> been noticing a lot of users with premium templates and plugins trying to
> get support on the forums. I suspect that some of them are even fully 
> aware
> of the rule, but still post nonetheless without sharing a link to their
> site (i.e., so that you can't tell what their themes are).
> More concretely put, what I was thinking was expanding the "Include as 
> much
> information as possible" paragraph and explicitly ask users to post a link
> to their sites (whenever possible). IMHO, said changes should help users
> better abide by the "What not to do" section.
> Cheers!
>
> Marventus
>
>
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> Jan Dembowski <mailto:jan at dembowski.net>
> October 4, 2012 5:09 AM
>
> +1 for adding a couple of sentences.
>
> Some of the questions are acceptable such as how do I remove "Leave a
> Reply" or modify the margin or padding and I think those aren't bad at 
> all.
> I don't think those necessarily should get "See a CSS forum" right off the
> bat.
>
> But a couple of sentences in the Forum Welcome page along the lines "CSS
> customization is outside of the scope of these WordPress software support
> forums, for more generic formatting support see a CSS forum" wouldn't 
> hurt.
> If a topic started getting deep into CSS customization (again) then that
> could get pointed to as a reference.
>
> Jan Dembowski
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> Michael Stolze <mailto:alchymyth at gmail.com>
> October 4, 2012 4:30 AM
> there is a substantial amount of topics which are primarily about
> formatting (or other rudimentary skills) which often get the usual 'please
> use firebug..and ask at a css forum' answers.
>
> I suggest to add a sentence or two to the forum rules (not that anybody
> ever reads them before posting) to set in more details what questions
> should (or should not) be asked in this forum (similar to what they 
> have at
> the WPSE http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/faq )
>
> I am looking forward to hearing your opinions about this,
> cheers,
> Michael
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