[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #4236: Support: In short guidelines for review writing, mention that links aren't tolerated

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#4236: Support: In short guidelines for review writing, mention that links aren't
tolerated
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 Reporter:  tobifjellner    |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:
Component:  Support Forums  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by jdembowski):

 Replying to [comment:6 Otshelnik-Fm]:
 > add noindex nofollow - no problem?

 It's a problem and noindex nofollow just wastes time IMHO. That does
 nothing for educating the user or correcting their bad intentions*.

 No one needs a link in a review to the plugin or authors site. That's
 completely not unnecessary; you have a plugin or theme page for that.

 No one needs to say "Hey, see this site <LINK> for an example" either
 because the reviews are not about traffic or getting visitors even from
 the review. There used to be a sub-forum called Your WordPress and it was
 almost all WordPress link spam. It was closed for that reason.

 Reviews are about a user's experience and that needs to be limited to
 their words. They do not need to post links in reviews. In the rare case
 that a review makes sense such as to a github issue then that does get
 permitted. But links to anything else isn't for the reivews.
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 *Bad intentions as in getting traffic or using the reviews to showcase .
 When plugin or theme authors ask their users to use the reviews as a
 showcase, those reviews get archived and the plugin or theme author is
 asked to stop doing that.

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