I agree they do, but the question is, what is being done about it?
It should be relatively simple to raise a flag when a plugin gets 25%
(overall!) increase in ratings, all 1 star, in a time frame that's about
.5% of the time the plugin has been hosted on wp.org.
An alternative would be to remove the plugin from WP, which
unfortunately would kill the auto-update process for many other users.
Mike Spears wrote:
Spammers suck!
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of deliciousdays
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 3:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [wp-testers] "spam" attacks on WP.org / plugin rating
To all plugin developers:
Just wondering, if you also noticed -for lack of a better term- "spam"
attacks on your plugins' rating (score).
A couple of days ago, I noticed the first one: 15 one star ratings
within an extremely short period of time.
Today, the same thing happened....
I guess it'd be great if WP.org could apply some security mechanism to
prevent that...
Thanks,
Oliver
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