Removing Licenses

[ThisLightMan]

1) You should be able to delete licenses. It might not seem like a big deal, but setting a license as "inactive" in the Seller Dashboard still counts as a "purchase" for a resource, meaning your resource's purchase count stays the same

2) Disallow users from creating reviews after their license has been set as inactive. If you refund a user or decide to revoke their license, they can still make a review on your resource if they've downloaded it.

My main point here is that you should be able to completely remove a user from your resource, not just remove their ability to download the resource.

 

[Scroll32]

Wouldn't people just ban people who say the product isn't what they expected just to get 5 star reviews?

 

[ThisLightMan]

I guess so, but MCM could make that punishable (if the user could provide proof of the abuse). If you have a better idea of how it could be implemented, please let me know.

 

[Harry]

We'd always need to keep the license entries for logging/download tracking purposes, so an option like this would be superficial as it'd have no effect if the license was already inactive. Also, I don't believe the purchase count should decrease - a purchase still took place, the resource attracted someone sufficiently for them to commit to a purchase, even if the license was later disabled or deleted.

In regards to reviews, currently, users are able to place a review on any version of a resource that they've downloaded. This seems quite fair to me, since having an active or inactive license should have no effect on your opinion of the product itself. Implementing a restriction like this will cause issues with subscription-based licenses (which have license expiry dates), and would make it far easier for authors to censor purchasers who've had a bad experience with the product or support provided by the author.

 

[Mick]

We'd always need to keep the license entries for logging/download tracking purposes, so an option like this would be superficial as it'd have no effect if the license was already inactive. Also, I don't believe the purchase count should decrease - a purchase still took place, the resource attracted someone sufficiently for them to commit to a purchase, even if the license was later disabled or deleted.

In regards to reviews, currently, users are able to place a review on any version of a resource that they've downloaded. This seems quite fair to me, since having an active or inactive license should have no effect on your opinion of the product itself. Implementing a restriction like this will cause issues with subscription-based licenses (which have license expiry dates), and would make it far easier for authors to censor purchasers who've had a bad experience with the product or support provided by the author.

Denied, thanks for the suggestion