Allow resource mod review of paid resources without purchase

[Justis]

Hey guys,

As you should know, every resource which gets uploaded to MCMarket goes through a review process by which a resource mod will download the resource you've uploaded (whether you're charging for it or not), verify that it's not malicious, that it is the product described on the resource page, that you own it, etc.

We do have quality standards, such as, you can't upload a dirt house, or a hello world plugin, or a five line messages.properties file, common sense...
But, there are some resources that technically get by on all the requirements, and I don't want to sensor anyone just because they're not some elite dev or something. We all start somewhere.
However, when they're getting by on the skin of their teeth in terms of quality.
When the resource is so poorly made that it looks like it might break at any time.
When I actually have to feel guilty for approving of something to be sold for actual money to members of the community...
I feel I should have the right, though I did not pay for the resource, to leave a review, notifying interested buyers of exactly what they can expect from the resource, and the author that published it.
I feel the community deserves to know.

This could potentially save a lot of bad blood between members who purchased something, and then later realized it was a waste of money, because they would never use something so trashy, and wanted a refund. Situation snowballs.

This could also encourage premium resource authors to ensure that they really do take the time to upload something that's worth putting a price tag on, because they're not safe from being exposed as being low quality until after they've already gotten their money.

It just feel so wrong to know something is bad, and not being able to say so.

Like-wise, there are some resources that are absolutely amazing, and I live for them, and they deserve recognition as having quality work put into it by an author who obviously cares; and I'd like to be able to slap a star on them and say, yes this is something I would recomend.

However, the whole point of doing this would be to inform the community, and hopefully raise the quality of the resources that are being published by authors, and getting attention on the front page.
If the community doesn't want the resource mods doing this, then there would be no point.
That's why I'm here with this suggestion, asking your feedback. What do you think?

Should review of paid resources by the resource mod who approved it be allowed?
Or should they be forced to pay for it before they can make a review?

 

[Jayson]

If I were given those questions as an aptitude test, I wouldn't even bother answering them. Your first question makes very little sense (I think you mean "If you have something enabled in a config, and you wish to disable it, what would you typically change the value to?") and the second question is ambiguous as you could get two potential answers from it (an OR operator, eg "player.eco > 100 OR player.name = 'behind'", alternatively you could be asking about the pipe character which preserves newlines in a multiline string IIRC).
For the test to be effective, they need to be closed minded. The reason I say this is because I could say to every plugin dev "write me a quicksort algorithm" and I doubt many would be able to. You don't need to know the quicksort algorithm for plugin dev, especially because there are already sorting methods in Java which work plenty well (some of them do use quicksort too).

I do plugin configurations

Though it's not really possible to quiz configurators/skript creators

Configurations are well...simple but time consuming and you can just copy and paste skript off their full on tutorials place.

 

[Mick]

Accepted. Not only would this make the buyers have more opinions to go off of before buying something (which is always a good thing!), but there is a resounding yes from the community with 91% of people voting for it.