donnacha | WordSkill

@Paul – Sure, some great traffic for Jeffro, but you’ll notice that none of the 80 or so voters that Adii sent over stuck around long enough to make a comment, this sort of thing tends to be hit and run.

To say that, in asking people to come over and vote, he didn’t game the poll but, rather, promoted the poll itself, is like saying that the Taliban, in threatening to kill anyone who voted in Afghanistan, didn’t deliberately affect the election but, rather, intentionally discouraged the environmentally destructive use of ballot papers.

To say that his actions only resulted in a skew because the other companies failed to do the same thing is nuts. Are you seriously suggesting that our best designers should be wasting their time trying to rig polls instead of improving their themes and supporting their users?

There is, of course, a commercial gain in having a poll on an independent website that seems to suggest that WooThemes is ten times more trusted and liked than their nearest competitor. Don’t be surprised if you start to see this wonderful result mentioned in their publicity material. As Adii says, “why not promote yourself?”

But, no, it is not a big deal, I’m just calling it as I see it.

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