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

Daniel danielx386 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 00:24:47 UTC 2014


Well for one you can be picked up by the cops if you blackmail someone
(that may depend on where you live though)
Regards,
Daniel Fenn






On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Ipstenu the Half-Elf
<ipstenu at halfelf.org> wrote:
> Sure, blackmail bad. It's just having two requests for feedback, one in
> bold, in an announcement newsletter, is a totes legit sales technique I
> don't like. But that's totally personal and I know it :) S'why I said it's
> fine, just not something I personally like.
>
>
> On Mon Feb 10 16:07:58 2014, Otto wrote:
>
>> 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
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