I wrote this review of the Archiver WordPress plug-in:
★☆☆☆☆
I love the idea, but unsurprisingly – given it hasn’t been updated in over seven years – this no longer works. With my site, running WordPress 6.4.2, it broke it so badly that I couldn’t even login in recovery mode. I had to SFTP in and manually delete the plug-in to get my site back up.
It was immediately removed with the statement:
I have removed your review. Please do not use the review section for support.
Anonymous WordPress.org moderator
I think merely noting that an abandoned, seven-years-out-of-date plug-in is broken – and completely breaks WordPress if it’s installed & activated – is not unreasonable to note on the plug-in’s page. Putting that information in the Support forums is pointless since (a) nobody’s going to check those before installing the plug-in, and (b) it’s abandoned; there is no support.
Quite a disappointing move by the WordPress.org folks. 😕
Curiously, although the review itself was removed, it seems to still be counted in the stars histogram. Which is ironic since the 1-star rating is really not the important aspect of the review.
Addendum
Another review of mine was just removed by a different moderator for basically the same purported reason:
…you are 100% doing it wrong. Do not use a review to get support again.
Jan Dembowski
Seems a bit aggressive. I was, of course, not “getting support”, I was merely noting that another old, abandoned plug-in (LH Wayback Machine) only partially works now.
The first instance of this was disappointing but conceivably random, but this second removal suggests a systematic problem with WordPress.org’s review system.
