On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, 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?

Can't find it currently, but someone mentioned in the not-so-distant past that some search engine(s) grabbed the down-vote URL when crawling www.vim.org. In this case, googling:

        site:www.vim.org inurl:unfulfilling

(where 'unfulfilling' is the 'rating' value for a down-vote) comes up with exactly one result for me:

        ManPageView - Viewer for manpages, gnu info, perldoc, and php …

With the link: (...'s to prevent clicking)

        http://.../scripts/script.php?script_id=489&rating=unfulfilling

And I may have accidentally just downvoted it myself, by hovering over the result (which pops up a preview).

Seems like the ratings should only use $_POST (PHP var), but they appear to be using $_GET, too.

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Best,
Ben

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