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

[Mika A Epstein]

I cleaned out his reviews.

if 'blocking' a user actually helped and didn't inspire someone to make 
sock puppets, I'd do that, but here's the idiocy? EXCEPT for his 
vendetta against you (which is stupid, but there you are) he's got 
decent posts. :/

Bob Ellison wrote:
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> Wow that was faster than I can write, thanks Mika!
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> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Mika A Epstein<ipstenu at ipstenu.org> 
> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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>> Bob Ellison wrote:
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>>>
>>> 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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