Please add plugin author replies to the plugin's review page

[wpt00ls]

Plugin reviews pages, for example ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/#reviews only shows reviews from the users. The replies from the plugin author isn't shown. In cases of bad reviews, sometimes the end user is baseless, ill-aware, biased or sponsored. The plugin authors reply doesn't show up on this listening page (it shows up when you click on the review link). It may sometime feel like a boxing match where the plugin's hands are tied.

I request you to add replies from plugin authors on the listing page.

Tripadvisor/google reviews and many others do this. I am attaching a screenshot from tripadvisor.

[wpt00ls]

Sample review listing page on tripadvisor which shows replies from owners

[carike]

Hallo there :)

Welcome to Meta Trac.

The plugin author already does have the ability to respond to reviews for their plugin.
If you don't see a response, it is for one of three reasons:

• The plugin author chose not to respond;
• The plugin author's post is currently awaiting moderation (because they previously did something that is against the forum's guidelines like asking for admin access to someone's site and a moderator needs to check all their posts before it goes live);
• The plugin author's post was removed because it violated the forum guidelines (for example, it contained personal information about the poster, or it contained excessive swearing, or something similar).

In the overwhelming majority of cases, when a reply isn't shown, it is because of reason number 1, namely that the author(s) chose not to respond. This is their choice. We cannot (and should not) force them to.

All the best :)

[carike]

Edited:
I see you mean you believe the plugin author's response should be shown on the summary page, so deleting the resolution.

[Otto42]

Duplicate of #1805.