[wp-forums] Answer to why WordFence got so many plugin reviews rcently

[Otto]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Ipstenu the Half-Elf
<ipstenu at halfelf.org>wrote:

> Jan noticed this earlier: http:// pic.twitter.com/Q4DquiYNRT
>
> Now I know why! They sent this email (and yes, it linked every single time
> to the review page):
>
> Dear WordPress Publisher,
>
>
It does not bother me for a plugin to ask people to leave them good
reviews, as long as they're not actually being dicks about it.

Like, "If you found this alert helpful, please give us a 5 star rating" is
fine. But something like "Give us a rating to continue to get updates" or
"Give us a rating to stop getting updates" or "Give us a rating or we'll
shoot this dog", not so fine.

http://i.imgur.com/mNsAs92.jpg

Asking your happy customers to give you good reviews is a proven technique.
As long as they don't tie reviews to anything else, my advice is to let it
go.

-Otto