Mon 20 Oct 2008 |
A Reminder for All JED Developers
Written by Steve Burge
After conversations with several developers, we'd like to provide a little clarification for people with listings in the JED.
Essentially all the rules break down to two simple dos and don'ts:
Two Things You Can Do
- Reply to a review. If you want to reply directly to a reviewer, click "Reply". Please don't ask us for a reviewer's contact details as we cannot give that out. However, you can give the reviewer a way to contact you.
- Report a review. If you think a review is incorrect and want to ask for its removal, click "Report" and explain why. Our rules for reviews are here.
Two Things You Can't Do
- Don't don't touch your extension listings in any way, except "reply and "report". Please don't submit reviews, don't vote, don't click "Is this review helpful?".
- Don't touch any other extension in your category. After all, there's little difference between voting 0/5 for a rival and voting 5/5 for yourself.
Please make sure that everyone else who works with your follows these rules. Violating them may lead to a warning or suspension.
What Should I Do If I've Broken These Rules?
If you've clicked "Is this review helpful?" a few times, don't worry about it. However, if you've reviewed your own extension or one of your rivals, you may want to email us via This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
I hope this clears things up. We don't enjoy suspending developer's listings, but we do it to help two groups:
- Other Developers. Put yourself in the shoes of a developer whose rivals keep giving themselves 5/5 votes.
- Extension users. Its great to get fair, unbiased feedback from other people who have used the extension.
2008-10-20 15:58:08
It is NOT hard though to remove those features from the page when a developer is viewing their OWN listings. A feature that is enabled and available on a page SHOULD be used by the person viewing the page else it should be REMOVED or DISABLED - that is a most basic UI principle is it not?
And Yes, I had OFTEN (In the past - not for a while) vote if a review is helpful or not, especially on my listings as some "so called reviews" are everything but " a serious communication of a persons experience with the extension"
If you dont want someone to click something - remove it - it takes a few seconds to write code to support that!
2008-10-20 16:38:51
It may be easy to add that or any of another 30 or so features that have been requested. However, the JED is a volunteer effort and thus new features are submitted as the developers get time.
The JED is getting a facelift in the near future to 1.5, although no timeline has been set, so now is an excellent time to offer solutions to the new code.
If you have the programming written for any feature you desire in the JED, again, email to team@extensions.joomla.org and it will be evaluated for inclusion.
2008-10-21 13:47:42
Nick
2008-10-24 21:01:02
One possibile way to help remedy this, albeit a little extreme, is to disable reviews by new members for a given period. That way existing (i.e. real) members have a chance to review a listing first. I don't know how feasable this is, and the review system would surely suffer.
It's a shame that just a few dishonest developers can ruin it for everybody else. They should be tarred and feathered!
2008-10-29 15:33:26
Although it is quite extreme I believe it would probably be wise to limit reviewing and rating until an account has come of age.
Sadly I have found that people who want to spam these types of resources really seem to have no morals at all and will take little notice of the rules.
And there IS quite a lot at stake on the JED - a lot of traffic to the successful developers which can result in sales and/or revenue from advertising. Whenever money is involved it seems people will try and cheat the system.
2008-10-29 19:39:16
The UI changes will be in the new version of the JED.
2008-11-09 00:09:59
2008-12-03 13:16:51