[wp-hackers] Automatic feedback from users

[wordpress at nazgul.nu]

The problem is that you need something like the remote IP for these stats to
be useful. How else are you going to distinguish between a blog that sends
its data twice (after an upgrade for instance) and 2 separate blogs sending
data. You don't want to count that upgrade as a new blog.

Regards,
Bas Bosman (Nazgul)

-----Original Message-----
From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
[mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Callum
Macdonald
Sent: zaterdag 15 september 2007 21:27
To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Automatic feedback from users

Omry Yadan wrote:
> users that opt not to provide statistical information should not be
> punished by reducing the functionality in any way.
>   
I generally agree if the statistics can be traced to an individual. 
However, if we keep the stats anonymous so there's no user data, I think 
it's ok to track them automatically as part of the core functionality.

The bottom line is, by analysing the server stats we could tell how many 
people had what plugins installed. If I want to check for a new version, 
I have to send a request somewhere with the name of the plugin and ask 
for the latest version number. Standard web logs will store the remote 
IP and the plugin name.

If we don't store the remote IP in the stats, then I see no privacy or 
other issues of stat collecting.

Cheers - Callum.

PS> I'm a privacy nut, I don't use Google except through a separate 
browser proxied to a single IP because I don't like their privacy 
policy. On the other hand, I have no issue with anonymous stats! :)

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