[wp-forums] Plugin author promoting pro version via reviews

Wed Apr 24 14:14:02 UTC 2013

Well, looks like he's trying to start a "business" with his tactics and I bet he'lll be back. His site is in beta with lorem ipsum text and pages that 404: http://www.getaplugin.com/

On Apr 24, 2013, at 7:45 AM, esmi at quirm dot net wrote:

> on 24/04/2013 14:35 Jan Dembowski said the following:
>> I'm sure that I'm NOT OK with that...
>> 
>> If he wants to review and promote the free hosted version then that's
>> encouraged. Shilling for the commercial version in the same forum? Not good.
> 
> Did some more digging and this is the SECOND time he's posted a 5 star review pimping the pro version of his plugin. And he's only ever posted 4 times with the other two being responses to "how do I get the premium version" (I can't prove that he was behind them).
> 
> Pulled both pimping reviews and b-coded him.
> 
> <http://wordpress.org/support/profile/getaplugin>