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

[Mika A Epstein]

He's also 'updating' his plugin with new features that are just editing 
his readme.

Yeah, I'm on it.

Mark Ratledge wrote:
>
> 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:
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>>
>> 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>
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