[wp-forums] Ethical Obligations for WordPress Users

[Chip Bennett]

The OP isn't asking for any money. The OP is asking for a Plugin that would
facilitate a WordPress-powered web site that would allow people to commit
to two things:

1) Praying during a specific, 30-minute block of time
2) Donating $30 to the charity of the *volunteer's* choice

Let's change the context, from religion/sex-trafficking, to, say, breast
cancer. The analogous site would ask people to commit to two things:

1) Participate in a specific, 30-minute block of time for a walk-a-thon
2) Donate $30 to the breast cancer charity of the *volunteer's* choice

How about yet another context? Say: WordPress community love. The analogous
site would ask people to commit to two things:

1) Participate in the WPORG support forums for a specific, 30-minute block
of time
2) Donate $30 to the Plugin or Theme developer of the *volunteer's* choice

Where is the fraud?

Chip

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Mar Ventus <marventus.wp at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I see what's bothering Andrew about that post, and if he's right,
> it would not be a matter of morality but legality.
> If the site is just a *façade* and no money is being donated, we would be
> talking about plain fraud here. If you do the math, according to the
> information provided by the user, we are talking about over half a million
> bucks yearly.
> What is extremely odd here is that if you do a reverse image search on the
> users' picture, the only site that comes up is WP.org, which means he is
> only using his avatar on WP, even though he claims to be subscribed to or
> involved in other "tech communities".
> I have a very bad feeling about this one, but maybe it's me just being...
> well... Me, hahahaha.
> I think it would be a good idea to keep track of that thread and the OP as
> well.
> Cheers to everyone!
>
> Marv
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Jan Dembowski <jan at dembowski.net> wrote:
>
> > My take away from this conversation is this:
> >
> > So... It's possible to over do coffee?
> >
> > ;)
> >
> > I've not gotten home yet but let's just leave my response at "coffee
> > withdrawal", I'd appreciate that. :D
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Jan Dembowski
> >  On Sep 20, 2012 6:39 PM, "esmi at quirm dot net" <esmi at quirm.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > > on 20/09/2012 23:02 Chip Bennett said the following:
> > >
> > >> 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?
> > >>
> > >
> > > You & me both! :-)
> > >
> > > On the 5th(?) reading, I can see how such a premise could actually be
> > some
> > > kind of scam but I took at face value on the first 4 readings.
> > >
> > > @Jan: Have you overdone the coffee today? ;-)
> > >
> > > Mel
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