[wp-forums] Is there anything that can be done about malicious reviews

[Bob Ellison]

Wow that was faster than I can write, thanks Mika!


On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org> wrote:

> I moderated the user for now.
>
> WITHOUT the history, you know, there's actually not an easy way for us to
> tell someone's being abusive. One single nasty review? Par for the course
> with public reviews. A continual chain of harassment? Not okay, and a
> totally different thing.
>
> Now that we have the information, I'll go back through the reviews and
> check what the IP is doing.
>
>
> Bob Ellison wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I realized recently that a wordpress.org user has targeted my plugins
>> with
>> malicious reviews. The trail of evidence stems from a trac ticket where
>> the
>> user was upset that I downgraded his ticket priority to minor.
>>
>> After this user was rude on the trac ticket, he proceeded to immediately
>> give 3 of my plugins 1 star and a negative review.
>>
>>
>> Why this is clearly targeted:
>>
>> 1. The trac ticket is hostile
>> 2. The chances of the same hostile user trying 3 of my plugins the same
>> day
>> of the trac ticket is not possible.
>> 3. The reviews make no sense, for example he calls them "ugly" yet they
>> use
>> default WP styles.
>> 4. The use continued to harass me via IRC ( one screenshot
>> http://i.imgur.com/SWgntHH.jpg ) and post negative comments (also have
>> screenshots since they have been removed).
>>
>> I don't care about negative reviews, but this is clearly a case of being
>> targeted for no valid reason.
>>
>> Trac ticket this stems from: https://core.trac.wordpress.**
>> org/ticket/24718 <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24718>
>> Forum post with references to the reviews:
>> http://wordpress.org/support/**topic/ugliest-plugin-i-ever-**
>> seen-2?replies=5#post-4615696<http://wordpress.org/support/topic/ugliest-plugin-i-ever-seen-2?replies=5#post-4615696>
>>
>> If you guys could do anything that would be great, thanks.
>>
>>
>> - wycks
>>
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