bobby-ning

Reasons to remove this plugin from the repository:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/315641?replies=11#post-1335311

See:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/315641?replies=11#post-1335311

MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer and other MBP plugins should be banned from the plugin repository for the following reasons:

1) MBP plugins are using the WordPress repository as an advertising vehicle and to gain legitimacy for users and search engines. Links to plugin FAQs, installation instructions, etc. point to the developer’s site instead of providing useful information on the WordPress plugin site.

2) The developer uses the repository’s reflected legitimacy to gather email addresses for the primary purpose of spamming users with internet marketing missives. I know this because I receive spam from him regularly.

3) WordPress already provides an update mechanism that does not require email registration so his assertion that he is using emails for support is a red herring (BS). Blatant BS should not be rewarded.

4) Unless www.ads-software.com and Automattic endorse his spammy emails, they should remove his plugins from the repository. Failure to do so, suggests they are endorsing his spamvertizing.

5) I suspect the developer (an internet marketer) uses registrations to keep track of user blogs and run data analytics on competing internet marketers. This means that, if you run multiple blogs, even if you give the MBP developer a throw-away email address, he can and probably does, track plugin installs by IP and/or domain name via his plugin registration callback mechanism.

So, unless you enjoy being spammed, lied to, or spied on, you should probably push to have this plugin removed from the repository.