Snotty comments from support-Boris

Hi VW,

I just wanted to let you know Boris is not part of our support team. He is a member of the community who uses UM and helps other users on the forum sometimes in his sparetime.

Our support team is always polite to our users so I would appreciate if you could change this review.

For this topic: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/ui-suggestion-for-menu-setting/ can you please provide a screenshot of what you see.

For this topic: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/how-can-i-seeedit-default-forms-not-listed-under-shortcode/ those shortcodes are not editable like the profile form and there arent any other shortcodes.

Thanks ??

As you can see from my reply, it has the label “plugin author” next to it which shows I am part of the plugin team whilst the user who replied to you does not have a label next to their name.

Thanks

If you are support then provide support in a timely manner! Not days later. I have sent you people who have given you more stars than you’ll ever know.

I am about to regret ever using your plugin so if you want I can rate your “support” right now. I am ready.

As a far as this user, what this “WP Feature” posted is so smart, he wants you to reverse the order of ‘who can see’ permissions in the Admin panel menu widget because it’s inconvenient to him in its present form.
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/ui-suggestion-for-menu-setting/

Then in this thread he created, he wants you to teach him how Ultimate Member works. For what purpose, God only knows. Maybe he wants to join your “development” team.

I provide value to your support system and you want him to keep on posting here???

*Reads. Cringes. Really?*

Starting from the top: @vwfeature The user “borisv” is not part of the team that supports this plugin. He happens to be another volunteer who uses and likes this plugin. That’s all.

You are reviewing this plugin based on something that has nothing to so the the plugin or author. Would you please consider revising your review? Again, the author has nothing to do with that user. I know, I’ve asked in the past.

@ultimatemember That’s a great reply. Keep up the good work. ??

*Drinks coffee, coffee is my friend*

@borisv I think anyone who follows me and my replies knows that I am proponent of inserting humor into my replies. See above coffee comment as an example.

But that’s not always appropriate and I have offended more than one person who thought I was brushing them off. I have also apologized to at least 2 people for that. Sometimes snark, even with good intentions is the wrong reply.

In that particular instance your reply was less than helpful and here we are.

Please just take it as a learning experience and move on. OK? Your reply resulted in this review and the author’s reply was really good and factual. You are not part of the author’s team and there was nothing in the author’s reply that invites anything bad from you.

Point well taken. Sir.

As for your comments to them:

@ultimatemember That’s a great reply. Keep up the good work.

I think you’re mistaken here. They have probably one of the worst support response time on WordPress. Sometimes (and you can look it up if you want) taken up to 8 days to respond.

I love the plugin and most importantly, WordPress so I won’t give them a bad review. But they need to step up to the plate and provide real support or they will see more of this ‘one star’ reviews more often. Not because of me, trust me.

Another thing, I totally dislike a user who clogs a support forum with irrelevant posts or fishing for free coding lessons.

That’s not why the WordPress plugin support forums were created and you know it.

As you may have noticed, I am not here to be primarily a ‘nice’ user, but to be helpful to anyone who is in a bind over something that is mainly the result of the lack of good plugin documentation.

Now, I don’t say it, but I sure give hints. In this case, it was user VWFeature who responded with a more condescending reply than my snarky comment. So, he got what he asked for.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/ui-suggestion-for-menu-setting/

I maybe rough but I’m helpful.

Oh and one more thing before I am done ranting here. This is the most ridiculous script for forums ever made. It’s so bad that even visually a user can’t even distinguish the difference between a plugin author from another user.

This crap forum system running on WordPress is not worthy of WordPress.

Now I am done.