[wp-forums] Temp Bozo'd 'SwansonPhotos'

[Mika A Epstein]

None at all that I see.

The plugins repo doesn't have a PRT as it were, so there's no easy way to handle suspensions publicly. Yet. (I know, Jane said a revamp is on the list ;) I wait with bouncing on my couch.) Certainly this should be a part of any revamp, though, a way to explain to people what to do, and how to handle, plugin removal when it's not YOUR plugin.

Right now it's a black hole "Hey, Plugin ABC went away!" and I have no idea if more are removed for dumb spamming things or serious security issues. I would assume dumb over evil, personally, but I'd like to think people are decent at heart.

For themes, if a theme's yanked for security issues, I'd think it makes sense to disclose it. "Bob's theme made unwarranted calls to spammyspammer.com" etc. But if it's just 'There's no archives page' or such, that's just ... no something to 'waste time' on. Not that the general Joe reads the Make Themes pages, mind you, so I don't know how helpful that'd be except for forum mods (which is reason enough for me ;) ).

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Mika A Epstein (aka Ipstenu)
http://ipstenu.org

On 29 Jan 2012, at 10:05:03AM, Chip Bennett wrote:

> Any reason not to point Plugin queries directly to that forum thread?
> 
> Any words of wisdom regarding disclosure of suspension actions would be
> appreciated. We deal with the same thing on the Theme Review Team, and thus
> have the same questions come up from time to time.
> 
> We've got a couple ideas:
> 
> 1) Since all Theme approvals take place through Theme-Trac, we generally
> try to post relevant comments about the suspension in the ticket through
> which the Theme was approved.
> 
> 2) We've considered posting suspension notices on the Make Themes site,
> when full disclosure is warranted.
> 
> Of course, there are pros and cons to any course of action...
> 
> Chip
> 
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Kathryn Presner <zoonini at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> FYI this is the original thread where the stuff was reported:
>> 
>> 
>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sexybookmarks-email-bookmark-and-share-buttons-warning-unwanted-injection-of-tracking-code-selling-info-to-ad-networks?replies=5
>> 
>> kp
>> 
>> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org>
>> wrote:
>>> Which doesn't excuse repeat 'Silence is golden, apparently' emails from
>> a user ;)
>>> 
>>> I'm always torn on what should be disclosed and what shouldn't. I mean,
>> if it's a security vio (haxors!) then yeah, clearly folks should be told
>> there was an issue and the dev was told. But if it's just rampant
>> asshattery and spammy/bad behavior, it's not as huge a thing. FUD is such a
>> tenuous thing.
>>> 
>>> I'm goin' back to pie for breakfast.
>>> 
>>> On 29 Jan 2012, at 8:51:19AM, Jane Wells wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 1/29/12 9:25 AM, Mika A Epstein wrote:
>>>>> SwansonPhotos is having a hissy. Sexybookmarks was pulled from the
>> repo, the DEVELOPER replied they're working on it, and we get the usual
>> crap of 'I'm gonna keep posting till WordPress replies!'
>>>>> 
>>>>> I told SP to stop it and flagged it Bozo to see if that calms down
>> some.
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/sexybookmarks-1?replies=7
>>>>> 
>>>> That plugin was breaking the rules in a big way, discovered when
>> investigating user complaint about it. Mark is cataloging the bad stuff to
>> send an email to the author.
>>>> j
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