Deter Developers from Leaving Reviews On Their Own Product

[Ipstenu]

It's not BAD to review your own product, but people should be honest about this stuff.

We should alert developers that they should leave productive and disclosed reviews on their work.

For example, on ​https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/akismet/reviews/ if you were someone with commit access (or listed as an author) you should get a message like this:

"A review should be the review of an experience a user has with your plugin, not for self-promotion. Since you work on this [plugin|theme], please consider <em>not</em> leaving a review on your own work. You were probably going to give it five stars anyway."

[netweb]

To highlight an alternate case, before I had commit access to bbPress I wrote this review of bbPress:

• ​https://wordpress.org/support/topic/learning-php-1/

Side note: The review also doesn't add the CSS flair to the review highlighting that I am a "Plugin Author" either, it probably should

[Ipstenu]

@netweb - As that happened before you had access then you wouldn't have the alert box :) No harm, no foul. Which is why I'm not asking for plugin author to be noted. We don't have a way to check, after the fact, if the review was left when someone wasn't an author/committer.

[SergeyBiryukov]

How does meta-2126.PNG​ look?

[Ipstenu]

I love it!

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 4935:

Support Forums: Add a notice to discourage plugin and theme authors from leaving reviews on their own projects.

Props Ipstenu.
Fixes #2126.

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 4936:

Support Forums: After [4935], add a paragraph break after the first sentence of the notice to improve visual appearance and readability.

See #2126.