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

[Daniel]

Also just to add something, this sort of thing can happen on sites
such as giveawayoftheday where people do a lot of up votes or down
votes without looking or even trying out the program in question.

I'm just saying that it not just WordPress who get all those spams, it
can happen anywhere.





On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org> wrote:
> I don't know what warning you would have wanted? "Hi, someone spamming the
> review forums, we deleted them"? That's impractical to expect us to do with
> all the posts and reviews out there. We see spam, we handle it. You weren't
> the only plugin impacted by this, after all :)
>
> The deleted reviews shared a lot of 'things' in common, like no other posts,
> IP address and email domain. If those REALLY are your customers, then we
> apologize, but if you look at it from our perspective, it's highly suspect.
> An account, made today, makes ONE post from an already suspicious IP and/or
> email (that is, one that had spammed before), and it's a 5 star rating?
> (There are more traits we look at with these accounts, but they all boil
> down to common sense.)
>
> It really looks like spam. Normally when we block those accounts, when
> they're real we catch complaints from those people. When they're not, they
> just keep making more and more accounts, which tells us we were right.
>
> The latest tactic was to review ALL the SEO plugins. Yeah, that got deleted
> too :/
>
> Now as for negative reviews, we look at those too! If an IP posts a ton of
> negative reviews, they get yanked. If you think there are posts that should
> be, tag them with 'modlook' and we'll have a look. But generally we only
> delete spam. If it's a post that upsets you because they're
> mean/silly/irrational, we let 'em stand.
>
>> Florin Muresan, Squirrly SEO <mailto:florin at squirrly.co>
>> 5 June, 2013 7:19:53PM
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> Thanks for telling me all this. I talked to the people from the team and
>> yes, one of them was puting in reviews from time to time, but stopped
>> about
>> 1 or 2 weeks ago, maybe even more.
>>
>> Concerns:
>>
>> 1) I saw that others tried to post reviews recently. One of them was for
>> sure a client, but the others I don't think they were legit at all. At
>> WordCamp Transylvania this weekend it has been pointed out to me that
>> somebody may be trying to make us look real bad (happened to them, that's
>> what they said)
>>
>> I don't know if the competition is doing negatives and also pozitives, but
>> they're getting me a bit paranoid.
>>
>> 2) Some of the deleted reviews were from customers that I know and were
>> not
>> spam.
>>
>> 3) We did not receive a warning before this happened. I know it's kinda
>> stupid of me to pop in about all these just now, but I didn't know what
>> was
>> going on (which just makes me even more stupid, it seems). Would have been
>> nice to be warned before, though. I could have taken measures then, and
>> not
>> wait until all this escalated. (and it would have made me look a bit
>> smarter as well :)) )
>>
>> I can assure you that no one from my team is doing any of that review
>> stuff
>> anymore. It stopped as I said, about 1 or 2 weeks ago. Since then, I don't
>> know who has.
>>
>> How can we fix this?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Florin
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