In reply to David Anderson.

Sure, of course no one wants to see that sort of thing in their daily feeds. But again, I thought you were handling the situation quite deftly on day one, explaining where the issues in your plugin came from and promising to do something about them. Then the next day you seemed to flip 180 degrees and claim that you were nothing but an innocent victim being persecuted for no reason. Yes, the plugin’s settings should have been mentioned in the original story, but that doesn’t change the fact that there are real, serious issues with your plugin. Multiple serious issues.

One of the issues – and this is largely, if not entirely, unrelated to the issues with the plugin settings – is the obfuscated user agents. You still have not explained what you plan to do about those. At a minimum, I would think you would want to try to de-obfuscate the user agent names and make it clear what it is you are sniffing for. But it would probably be better to just remove the user agent sniffing entirely.

If people are suggesting that the plugin directory should remove your plugin … well, that’s not really surprising, because it appears to be in violation of the plugin directory guidelines (specifically #4). You keep talking about how you may make changes in “normal development processes” but I would think that fixing a guideline violation would be a bit more urgent than that.