[wp-forums] jerk of the day award
Andrew2.Nevins
Andrew2.Nevins at live.uwe.ac.uk
Tue Apr 16 01:15:03 UTC 2013
I was going to write a question here about how to deal with people that have high expectations of support.
It seemed like I was overlooking it at the time, but now that we're on the topic, how do you guys deal with it?
Do you purposely not respond to them immediately, so they realise they're on the same level as everybody else who are also asking for help?
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:19:55 -0600
From: Mark Ratledge <mark at markratledge.com>
Subject: [wp-forums] Plugin authors flogging their own plugins
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Should plugin authors reveal they are the author of the plugin they are flogging?
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-get-4000-comments-a-day-of-spam-why?replies=2
He is, of course, flagged as the author in the plugins subforum, but that flag doesn't appear in other subforums.
-- mark
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:45:29 -0500
From: Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>
Subject: Re: [wp-forums] Plugin authors flogging their own plugins
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If the reply is relevant and helpful, I don't have a problem with it.
Most likely, they're searching for topics to post links to their
plugin into. As long as they don't start going too far back (months
and such), then I wouldn't worry about it in small doses. If they
mass-spam the forums with their posts, then that's an issue.
-Otto
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Mark Ratledge <mark at markratledge.com> wrote:
> Should plugin authors reveal they are the author of the plugin they are flogging?
>
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-get-4000-comments-a-day-of-spam-why?replies=2
>
> He is, of course, flagged as the author in the plugins subforum, but that flag doesn't appear in other subforums.
>
> -- mark
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:47:01 +0000
From: Andrew2.Nevins <Andrew2.Nevins at live.uwe.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [wp-forums] Brute Force Sticky
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I added a link to Matt's blog post regarding the Brute Force attacks within the forum sticky, however it seems to have confused a person http://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-tab?replies=4 .
As Matt's post points out troubleshooting steps for WordPress.com, should this be removed from the sticky?
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:48:12 -0700
From: Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org>
Subject: Re: [wp-forums] Brute Force Sticky
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No. It's fine.
We can't help the fact that they named the sites .com and .org and about
every day someone demands to know why there's no plugins page on their
site ;)
Andrew2.Nevins wrote:
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> I added a link to Matt's blog post regarding the Brute Force attacks
> within the forum sticky, however it seems to have confused a person
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-tab?replies=4 .
>
> As Matt's post points out troubleshooting steps for WordPress.com,
> should this be removed from the sticky?
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:07:28 -0700
From: Christine Rondeau <christine at bluelimemedia.com>
Subject: [wp-forums] Theme updates best practice
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Not sure if this is the best place to ask this question, but the Theme
Review team doesn't have an IRC chat time, so I thought I would post here.
I've been asked if one of my themes will be converted to responsive
version. I'm wondering what people's thought are about this?
Should I update it to make it responsive or submit a separate responsive
version of the theme. I have noticed in the forums that some folks would
like the option to turn off the responsiveness.
I guess I could investigate a way to have the responsiveness as an option.
I do know that some themes release a lot of updates while others don't and
I'm just not sure what the best practice on this matter.
Any thoughts?
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:17:27 -0700
From: Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org>
Subject: Re: [wp-forums] Theme updates best practice
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Personally I won't use a non-responsive theme. The footprint for the css
is smaller than the PITA of a plugin, IMO.
But it's really a personal thing. I can see some people wanting to turn
it off (which ... well I suppose a checkbox to include the fexible css
code would do it).
> Christine Rondeau <mailto:christine at bluelimemedia.com>
> April 15, 2013 11:07 AM
> Not sure if this is the best place to ask this question, but the Theme
> Review team doesn't have an IRC chat time, so I thought I would post here.
>
> I've been asked if one of my themes will be converted to responsive
> version. I'm wondering what people's thought are about this?
>
> Should I update it to make it responsive or submit a separate responsive
> version of the theme. I have noticed in the forums that some folks would
> like the option to turn off the responsiveness.
> I guess I could investigate a way to have the responsiveness as an option.
>
> I do know that some themes release a lot of updates while others don't and
> I'm just not sure what the best practice on this matter.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:29:44 -0400
From: Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
Subject: Re: [wp-forums] Theme updates best practice
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Christine,
This question would be perfectly valid for the theme-reviewers mail-list.
Discussions about best practices are welcomed and encouraged!
Thanks,
Chip
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Christine Rondeau <
christine at bluelimemedia.com> wrote:
> Not sure if this is the best place to ask this question, but the Theme
> Review team doesn't have an IRC chat time, so I thought I would post here.
>
> I've been asked if one of my themes will be converted to responsive
> version. I'm wondering what people's thought are about this?
>
> Should I update it to make it responsive or submit a separate responsive
> version of the theme. I have noticed in the forums that some folks would
> like the option to turn off the responsiveness.
> I guess I could investigate a way to have the responsiveness as an option.
>
> I do know that some themes release a lot of updates while others don't and
> I'm just not sure what the best practice on this matter.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:41:02 -0700
From: Christine Rondeau <christine at bluelimemedia.com>
Subject: Re: [wp-forums] Theme updates best practice
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Thanks Chip.. I didn't know there was a theme-reviewers list.. :P.. will
post there,
**Christine Rondeau
Bluelime Media
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> Christine,
>
> This question would be perfectly valid for the theme-reviewers mail-list.
> Discussions about best practices are welcomed and encouraged!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chip
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Christine Rondeau <
> christine at bluelimemedia.com> wrote:
>
> > Not sure if this is the best place to ask this question, but the Theme
> > Review team doesn't have an IRC chat time, so I thought I would post
> here.
> >
> > I've been asked if one of my themes will be converted to responsive
> > version. I'm wondering what people's thought are about this?
> >
> > Should I update it to make it responsive or submit a separate responsive
> > version of the theme. I have noticed in the forums that some folks would
> > like the option to turn off the responsiveness.
> > I guess I could investigate a way to have the responsiveness as an
> option.
> >
> > I do know that some themes release a lot of updates while others don't
> and
> > I'm just not sure what the best practice on this matter.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> >
> > *
> > ****
> > *
> >
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:34:30 -0700
From: Jennifer Roberts <wpyogimail at gmail.com>
Subject: [wp-forums] jerk of the day award
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http://wordpress.org/support/topic/hot-topics-or-recent-tag-activity?replies=12
I really wanted to say something smart -ass back about basic search skills - LOL!
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