+1 and +1 on Kay's idea. 2014-12-03 0:23 GMT+01:00 Kay Schenk <[email protected]>:
> > On 12/02/2014 02:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > There's an app for Apple devices called Quick Office Pro. It is totally > > unrelated to OpenOffice project and code. A link to it is > > https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id889011512?mt=8 > > > > They link to http://openoffice.org for user support. This results in > > many off-topic requests to the users list and in damage for the > > OpenOffice reputation; also, the app is not free, so they ask for refund > > and confuse our users. (We are trying, by the way, to get that app > > removed from the store, but it's a parallel course of action). > > > > Moderators on the users list have been considering to reject messages > > related to "Quick Office Pro" and to accompany rejection with a message > > explaining that OpenOffice has nothing (at a project level or code > > level) to do with Quick Office Pro, that the Quick Office Pro developers > > are abusing our support channels and that users should report the app to > > the Store where they bought it. > > > > Since there are concerns that the power to decide what to reject can be > > too subjective, I'm asking that we (subject to lazy consensus) agree > > that "Quick Office Pro" posts can be rejected with the explanation note > > described above. This will get irrelevant messages out of the list and > > avoid dangerous misunderstandings: I've personally replied to several > > such posts and I've seen other users get confused and believe that the > > reports applied to OpenOffice instead of Quick Office Pro, thus leading > > to even more confusion. A well-written rejection notice can be much more > > effective. > > > > If you have very, very valid concerns against this please speak up; > > otherwise I recommend that you realize that we virtually anything else > > is more important than Quick Office Pro, so if you, unlike me, have a > > lot of free time, you can spend it in more productive ways! > > > > Regards, > > Andrea. > > +1 on this proposal. And... > > I think we should be contacting Quick Office Pro about changing their > support information if we haven't already. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth > to a dancing star." > -- Friedrich Nietzsche > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
