You can’t ask 5 stars rating directly!

  • FahimMurshed

    (@fahimmurshed)


    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hi there,

    I have checked this file “/includes/admin/class-review.php” Line#222

    $url  = 'https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wpforms-lite/reviews/?filter=5#new-post';

    Based on my understanding, it appears that you are requesting users to directly or indirectly navigate to the five-star rating page/option, which is not permissible.

    So, the code should be like this:

    $url  = 'https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wpforms-lite/reviews/#new-post';

    I hope that your team of developers can resolve this issue and prevent further reports from other users.

    Have a wonderful day ahead of you.

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  • Prashant Rai

    (@prashantrai)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hey @fahimmurshed – Thanks for reaching out!

    We’ve shared your feedback with our developers for consideration. In the meantime, if you have any suggestions, or feedback, please feel free to reachout.

    Kindly,

    Prashant Rai

    (@prashantrai)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hey @fahimmurshed – Our developers reviewed the issue closely and according to the WordPress developer guidelines on this page what we currently have is permissible in WordPress.org.

    That said, if you have any suggestions, please feel free to reachout.

    Kindly,

    Moderator Yui

    (@fierevere)

    永子

    1 year, 2 months ago

    /?filter=5

    using this is not considered fair and we (moderators) advise against using it on forums when asking users to post a review. Doing so on plugin dashboard, well, it is not fair too, however you can clarify this with the plugin dev guidelines and plugins team on #pluginreview channel of Slack ( https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ )

    Thread Starter FahimMurshed

    (@fahimmurshed)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    The same explanation was what I was attempting. If your developers are employing the same on your other products, remove them immediately. That is likewise unacceptable.

    CC: @prashantrai
    @fierevere, thanks so much for your inputs.

    Plugin Support Kenneth Macharia

    (@kmacharia)

    1 year, 1 month ago

    Hi @fahimmurshed and @fierevere,

    Thank you for your feedback. We have raised this discussion internally and we’ll get back as soon as we have more details.

    Thanks!

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    1 year, 1 month ago

    The problem with any developer hard coding this:

    /?filter=5#new-post

    Is that a) it is disingenuous as all else (it hides the non-5 star reviews) and b) that’s dishonest.

    @prashantrai @kmacharia (plugin support) and @smub @wpforms @jaredatch @slaffik (listed plugin authors) can you stop doing that now?

    It’s a bad look. It’s also unnecessary to play such games in the link. You really do not need to give this much thought. Just lose the ?filter=5 from you code.

    It’s the responsible thing to do. Your happy users will still leave you good reviews. The people who won’t will not be impressed by that gaming.

    Really just do an update. In the comment you can put “Doing the Right Thing™”

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    1 year, 1 month ago

    Just to be clear here, there is NO guideline problem when it comes to this. Is it annoying? Yeah. Do I personally like it? I actually don’t really care.

    You don’t have to change it. Some people hate it, some don’t. There are pros and cons, and it’s up to the developer. They know some people hate it, and if they’re willing to take the ‘hit’ to their rep for it? Go ahead. I’m not your parent 🙂

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