On 01-Sep-2011 17:24, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On 31/08/11 17:49, Charles Campbell wrote: >> Charles Campbell wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> I recently checked my plugins' ratings: >>> >>> 08/09/11 script 677/279/10776: Manpageview.vim >>> 08/31/11 script -133/1094/10866: Manpageview.vim >>> >>> This seems like an odd thing -- is this preparation for a general >>> bombing of plugins' ratings? >> I should explain this a bit more. The rating for Manpageview on August >> 9, 2011 was 677, with 279 people having rated it, and 10776 having >> downloaded it. >> On August 31, 2011, the rating was -133, 1094 people having rated it, >> and 10866 having downloaded it. >> >> It is odd that Manpageview received -810 in karma when there were only >> 90 additional downloaders over that time period. Did irc have a >> anti-Chip attack? Is someone testing a bot to destroy multiple plugins' >> ratings? >> >> Chip >> > > I wonder how SourceForge allocates memory for these numbers. It sounds like > overflow into the sign bit, except that the next bit above 677 is 1024 (2^10) > which is not at a byte or word boundary... > > Only 90 new downloads but as many as 815 new ratings is also a bit > weird to say the least. And almost all of those negative? Some troll > must hate Manpageview (and/or you) quite a bit to have gone to the > trouble of logging in 810 times to give a negative rating.
I have seen a similar drastic downvote for the SmartCase plugin, http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1359; its rating is -326/355, Downloaded by 488, even though it works perfectly well for me. My best guess is that some bot did this; either by accident or through human evil. In these times, voting probably needs to be protected by captcha, but that would just make the feature even less attractive. As long as these are rare incidents, stick with the current system, and only move to e.g. an invitation to "comment on this script on the linked Vim Tips Wiki page" if it gets worse. -- regards, ingo -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
