[wp-forums] Fwd: It's been pointed out to us that the reviews from our Plugin have been deleted.

[Mika A Epstein]

Just as an FYI - that EXACT same pattern started up again.

As soon as we sort out where they're coming from, there will be a lot of 
permanent bans coming up. Also if we determine this is being done by the 
people who make a plugin, that plugin will be removed from the 
repository and not restored.

Seriously, white hat 'review' spam is bloody annoying, and a fast track 
to a bad reputation here.

Florin, please do me a HUGE favor and pass this info on to your company 
(same for anyone else who runs a plugin shop here).

Mika A Epstein wrote:
>
> Ah, actually all the reviews were from sock-puppet accounts with the
> exact same viewing information (IP etc) so they were removed as they
> were, from what we could tell, people gaming the system. There are
> traits we notice with them, like posting behavior, language, etc etc.
>
> Now that said, there have been a LOT of questionable posts from IPs
> associated with the creation of your plugin, and I'm 99% sure one of
> the mods reached out to you about this before and pointed out it
> wasn't cool. It's probably you just have a really over-eager person on
> staff who's putting these reviews out, and if so, please tell them we
> don't like it. REAL reviews, real good ones, will come in time, but
> any time we see a lot of them with identical posting behavior, we
> remove them.
>
>>
>> Florin Muresan, Squirrly SEO <mailto:florin at squirrly.co>
>> June 5, 2013 6:47 AM
>> Hey,
>>
>> I forwarded because it may not have reached you yesterday :)
>>
>> Thanks guys,
>>
>> Message follows:
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Florin Muresan, Squirrly SEO <florin at squirrly.co>
>> Date: Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 8:07 PM
>> Subject: It's been pointed out to us that the reviews from our Plugin
>> have
>> been deleted.
>> To: wp-forums at lists.automattic.com
>>
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I was asked by a mod to post my questions related to our reviews here.
>>
>> We built a plugin some time ago and we're still improving it a lot.
>> Some of
>> our customers either called us or wrote to us that we deleted their
>> reviews
>> of our plugin. They didn't know that we can't do that.
>>
>> I first thought it was an error, but I'm starting to get the feeling
>> that
>> our reviews are being deleted from the Wordpress Directory. And very
>> interestingly, only the good ones...
>>
>> What's happening?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Florin
>> https://twitter.com/florin_muresan
>> the plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/squirrly-seo/
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