[wp-forums] jerk of the day award
Mika A Epstein
ipstenu at ipstenu.org
Tue Apr 16 01:19:46 UTC 2013
I stop replying and walk away. Tweet about how stupid people are. Then I
go to the gym, come home, and laugh about it.
You can lead the horse to water...
The one legit part of his question was 'How do I make a tag cloud?'
though. WP comes with one :) Not as its own page, but it has a widget.
While sometimes they are remarkably silly people, try to aim for
answering the underlying question. And if you don't know, it's really
okay to leave it alone :)
> Andrew2.Nevins <mailto:Andrew2.Nevins at live.uwe.ac.uk>
> 15 April, 2013 6:15:03PM
> 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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> 1. Plugin authors flogging their own plugins (Mark Ratledge)
> 2. Re: Plugin authors flogging their own plugins (Otto)
> 3. Re: Brute Force Sticky (Andrew2.Nevins)
> 4. Re: Brute Force Sticky (Mika A Epstein)
> 5. Theme updates best practice (Christine Rondeau)
> 6. Re: Theme updates best practice (Mika A Epstein)
> 7. Re: Theme updates best practice (Chip Bennett)
> 8. Re: Theme updates best practice (Christine Rondeau)
> 9. jerk of the day award (Jennifer Roberts)
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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
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> He is, of course, flagged as the author in the plugins subforum, but that flag doesn't appear in other subforums.
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> -- 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:
>> 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
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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
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> I really wanted to say something smart -ass back about basic search skills - LOL!
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