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by _q6hy 633 days ago
Automattic auto-rejects applications to sign up to their Jetpack WordPress plugin's non-commercial free tier if your blog has so much as a single contact link[1]. This behavior feels greedy in my opinion, and may reflect on other behaviors expressed by Automattic.

1. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/non-commercial-license-a...

1 comments

From the link:

> escalate my concerns to management staff

On one side automatic algorithms are often unreasonably unfair but entitlement of that user for free service seems pretty strange.