I agree that it is an interesting coincidence, but not completely unreasonable when taken into context of the number of downloads (roughly 1%).
I have filed a "bug report" on wp.org. We will see if anything comes from it. Aaron. On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:30 PM, deliciousdays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In total we're looking already at 45 1-star ratings, which is for some other > plugins (I believe 4 to 5 of the top rated ones got hit), about 1/3 to /1/4 > of their > overall votes. > > It all happened withing a few days and considering that it took for some of > these 12-18 months to build up a good rating, based on good and consistent > support and coding, it's unnecessary. > > Coincidentally a new plugin had emerged not so long ago (roughly two weeks > old) and despite quite negative press, already has 56 (!!) votes and > deducting > some negative actual ratings, leave the plugin with about 30-40 some 5-star > ratings - v*e*r*y odd?! > I don't want to point fingers, but the coincidence is striking (14 days!). > > Oliver > > > Aaron Harun wrote: > > > > > > > > > The cause of the problem is that WP.org doesn't require unique email > > addresses. If you really wanted to be unethical, it takes about 2 > > seconds to register a name, change it slightly and register another > > one. You basically end with a list of users and passwords that you > > just need to copy and paste. > > > > The highest rated plugin has 217 ratings. If you were to take 2 > > seconds per registration and 5-10 per rating. It would take about > > 20-40 minutes for someone to _manually_ vote that many times. If > > someone made a bot, it would take seconds. > > > > This is the cause of the problem and the hole that should be closed. > > > > The fact that there were only 15 one-star ratings should make the > > plugin author feel glad that the rater didn't feel like spending more > > than a minute or two doing it. > > > > Aaron. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wp-testers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
