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Well, I’ve not asking for positive reviews, just asking to leave your feedback about plugin. Anyway thanks for yours.

Author sends emails to give his plugins positive reviews. Why? Because the good ones have dissapeared. So he claims.

@odv01 Now that’s interesting and you’ve gotten my full attention. I’m one of the moderators who keeps an eye on reviews. ??

Care to share the email text here?

@rattus this is a very serious question: how exactly did you obtain the email address of your plugin users to send that to them?

March 3:

Give Flagallery plugin 5 stars and get 90% discount for Gmedia Gallery WordPress plugin.
View this email in your browser

Dear,

You are the premium user of Grand Flagallery WordPress plugin and I want to know what do you think about it.
All I need you left review for Flagallery plugin or Gmedia plugin (if you already have it) at WordPress repository.

Grand Flagallery plugin – Leave Review
Gmedia Gallery plugin – Leave Review

For positive review you’ll receive 90% discount for Gmedia Gallery Premium Modules. Gmedia Gallery is powerful and actively developing media gallery plugin which could help to organize your photos with tags, albums and categories and share your collections with the world.

Reply to this email ([ redacted ]) with link to your review or with your wordpress username, so I can check if you really wrote review. Then I’ll send discount coupon code to you.

P.S.: If you don’t want to change your favorite gallery plugin that’s OK, but anyway you could support developer who creates these plugins with 5 stars review.

Thanks,
Rattus.

July 3

Hello,

I appreciate that you’ve chosen Grand Flagallery plugin to manage your media content. I hope you create fantastic galleries.

Unfortunately, almost all of positive reviews about my plugins have disappeared from www.ads-software.com due to mistake. So, I’m asking you to leave your feedback on that page: https://www.ads-software.com/support/view/plugin-reviews/flash-album-gallery

Average Rating was dropped from 4.1 to 2.3 ??

You can help me spread the word about my media plugin among the users striving to get awesome galleries on their WordPress sites.

There is also another my plugin with deleted reviews and dropped rating, which called Gmedia Gallery. If you ever tried it and like it, then, please, leave your review for Gmedia Gallery too.

I will be grateful for your time and efforts.

Best wishes,

Rattus

I only sent emails to my customers who used plugin for a long time.

Here is text of email:

I appreciate that you’ve chosen Grand Flagallery plugin to manage your media content. I hope you create fantastic galleries.

Unfortunately, almost all of positive reviews about my plugins have disappeared from www.ads-software.com due to my mistake. So, I’m asking you to leave your feedback on that page: https://www.ads-software.com/support/view/plugin-reviews/flash-album-gallery

You can help me spread the word about my media plugin among the users striving to get awesome galleries on their WordPress sites.

I will be grateful for your time and efforts.

I have already been punished for March 3 and Mika Epstein deleted all positive reviews from all my plugins. That’s why I asked to leave true feedback about my plugin. Mika said that asking for feedback is allowed if you not give any reward for this.

I’ve sent newsletter only to my customers who already used my free gallery plugin and purchased premium skins for it. I can send you screenshots to prove that.

Thank you for your understanding and hope that this bad review are not from the competitors.

That’s probably fine, but if you’re going to say that the ratings have disappeared, you may have to explain why. People will never guess otherwise.

No, review is from a customer. Sorry.