[wp-forums] Identifying company reps on the forums

[Ipstenu the Half-Elf]

You already HAVE that choice, Joost. Just document it in the readme, 
maybe make a sticky/closed post in your forum, and let 'em figure it 
out. That way the volunteers can see in the readme "Oh hey, you have to 
go here."

My major problem is people DO NOT remember to make it bloody obvious 
that they don't do support in the forums, when that is the default (and 
IMO reasonable) expectation of a wporg hosted plugin. Document it, 
we're fine with that!

I don't think having it in the sidebar was all that useful in the long 
run, given the fact that people just don't RTFM.  It wasn't obvious 
enough :/ Unless we changed the link to the support TAB (which again, 
not enough, how many people actually remember to do THAT?).

On Fri Feb  7 08:54:51 2014, Joost de Valk wrote:
> YES. YES. Finally let ME chose where we do support for our plugins.—
> Sent from Mailbox for iPhone
>
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>
>> Many moons ago, I suggested a Support URI header tag for Plugins and for
>> Themes, for just this reason: some way for WPORG personnel to verify that
>> something is the legitimate support resource for a WPORG-hosted
>> Plugin/Theme. Maybe a good time to revisit that idea?
>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Jen Mylo <jenmylo at wordpress.org> wrote:
>>> On 2/7/14 8:30 AM, esmi at quirm dot net wrote:
>>>
>>>> The comments on <http://make.wordpress.org/support/2012/11/is-your-forum-
>>>> id-a-company-rep-account/> have now been closed. Is there any new
>>>> process for company reps to get their forum ids flagged appropriately?
>>>>
>>> Probably ought to make a request over on make/meta.
>>>
>>>
>>>   Site Origin have moved at least 1 of their people over onto theme forum
>>>> support and he's already needed to ask at least one person to contact him
>>>> by mail. Just wouldn't want him accidentally jumped on for "soliciting
>>>> email contact".
>>>>
>>> It probably would be better if these people directed them to place they
>>> can contact via the company site/system rather than saying to contact
>>> off-forum by email. We could think about doing some outreach to companies
>>> in the ecosystem to ask them to do this.
>>>
>>> j
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