Spam in my dashboard

@accunet – if Modula was actually considered “spam” by the staff at W.org it would never exist on the official repository.

Each one of our products respects the w.org rules & regulations. The purpose of those (dismissable, and totally OK according to w.org regulations) notices is for us to find a sustainable business model to continue working on Enable Media Replace.

Unfortunately, w.org doesn’t provide us with the proper means of letting users know about these types of changes unless we use, you guessed it, a notification.

Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts re. EMR, although Modula didn’t do anything wrong to you ??

Hey @machothemes, maybe you could add a small message to the text of the notification that this helps support Enable Media Replace. I was just about to report it as SPAM too because we’d have every right to suspect that. It’s pretty Black Hat regardless of your intentions.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Chris.

@chriskink – what we’ve failed to mention was that … actually, Modula works nicely along EMR and ShortPixel.

We’ve kind of failed at properly communicating what we’re trying to do here and this has reflected in the last two reviews we’ve received on our plugin.

Yeah, I suspect you’re going to be getting a lot more of these as users run the plugin update and then see the notification at the top of their WP Admin.

You are associated with another plugin that is spamming the admin pages for your product. So yes, you are benefiting from spam, that makes you a spammer.

These spammy “notifications” are presented to all my users, even those without the ability to install plugins… so yes, it is spam (or are your spammers just incompetent?)

I highly doubt that WordPress is fully behind this kind of admin pages spam. I don’t have your plugin installed, and certainly never will now, so why is this other person spamming for you? How does this relate to a “business model” again?

Instead of apologizing for invading my websites, you hide behind WordPress’s policies and your need for “business”.

It shows your ethics, and they are not pretty.

@accunet – this support thread right now represents our failure to communicate better with Enable Media Replace’s user base. We’ve never realised the consequences of our actions when we were implementing this type of feature. In our eyes, it was harmless.

WordPress rules allow us to tastefully (that’s of course, subjective) display ads in the admin dashboard.

Since we’re mostly developers, we’re used to “follow the rules and nothing bad will happen”. That’s where I believe we’ve failed the second time: we didn’t realise the impact this could have on users nor were we prepared to handle it properly.

We, the team behind @machothemes, manage quite a large code base of products. We pride ourselves in having not only great code but also a very friendly team of people supporting these products. I, as part of the team, have failed at properly responding to this support thread in my first couple of replies.

As such, I want to extend an honest apology towards you and to anyone else who’ll be reading this thread.

We’ll be fixing this via a future update as well as a hotfix release today (the hotfix will hide the notice for anyone who’s doesn’t have plugin install capabilities OR isn’t actually in EMR’s settings page).

We’ve handled this poorly and I’m really sorry about that.

Thank you for taking the time to read this,
Cristian.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Macho Themes.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Macho Themes.

Update for EMR that fixes this issue has been released.

Take care!