[wp-forums] Sock Puppet?

[Otto]

Let's not go all nuts now. Jokes. :P

I just implemented a new version of the reCAPTCHA system on the support
forums registration page, so maybe that will reduce or help to eliminate
some of the more automated registrations. Won't stop manually doing it, of
course, but still.


-Otto


On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:00 PM, andrew nevins <andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I don't think it's a joke since the author isn't responding, it looks it's
> being used to provoke support to be given, and that's just wrong
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:22 PM, James Huff <james at automattic.com> wrote:
>
> > Probably not, it appears to be in reply to "If you like the plugin,
> please
> > consider giving it a 5 star rating.”
> >
> > He’s probably joking, but some aren’t, and people who publicly brag about
> > sock puppetry just rub me the wrong way.
> >
> > ________
> > James Huff
> > http://macmanx.com
> > http://automattic.com
> >
> > On August 12, 2014 at 3:17:16 PM, Jose Conti Calveras (
> > j.conti at joseconti.com) wrote:
> >
> > Maybe he meant Starts:
> >
> > I will give you a 5 from five STARTS if you just whisper how...
> >
> > 2014-08-13 0:01 GMT+02:00, Jan Dembowski <jan at dembowski.net>:
> > > Hopefully he was making a joke... I'll look later on.
> > >
> > > Jan Dembowski - Sent from phone
> > > On Aug 12, 2014 5:59 PM, "James Huff" <james at automattic.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Spotted in the wild, "I will give you a 5 from five accounts”
> > >> https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-restrict-categories
> > >>
> > >> I’m not up to date on the latest sock puppet hunting techniques, but a
> > >> bb-admin search for this IP doesn’t bring up any results (not even
> these
> > >> replies).
> > >>
> > >> ________
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