It happened to a plugin of tpope and to one of mine: 31 down ratings in sequence on 2011-08-06 between 18:234 and 22:05 310 down ratings in sequence on 2011-08-08 between 10:39 and 22:25 509 down ratings in sequence on 2011-08-08 between 01:39 and 18:30
In between no neutral or positive voting for VAM. Ratings before and after those 3 periiods have been both: live changing and unfullfilling. Given that the first section in docs is "contact me if you have trouble" its hard to believe that those are honest ratings. community: What do you suggest? I don't like the negative rating because you are not forced to pass a note about why you downrate a plugin which would be very helpful. I've written about this earlier. Now that manipulation clearly takes place I'd like to emphasize that eventually irc and mailinglists are more important then ever to get valuable advice based on experience rather than arbitrary down votings. I'm not sure what can be done against it because down voters can adopt easily. Some protction could be done by disallowing down votings - eg there is a reason that google and faecbook only accept "I like it / plus one" rather than "I dislike it/ minus one". Thus we could remove all negative votings and continue - people can only upvote their own plugins then which would hurt other projects less. I personally don't care: VAM surely has many happy and active users who help me debug issues fast and I'm thankful for their support. github and other arbitrary queries about any of the plugins I maintain including snipmate etc. are usually processed within a couple of days and the first reply is very likely to happen within 24 hours. So don't get me wrong: I'm not complaining here. I'm telling those who don't know it yet what I'm observing. Sorry for this noise - but I think people should know about it. If you want me to take action tell me to do so. Marc Weber -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
