[wp-forums] More sock puppetry and coffee needed

Chip Bennett chip at chipbennett.net
Mon Feb 3 11:25:12 UTC 2014


This user has Themes in the Theme directory as well. Is there anything the
Theme Review Team should be looking out for?
On Feb 3, 2014 6:17 AM, "Jan Dembowski" <jan at dembowski.net> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> *Drinks more coffee, thinks "this is why we can't have nice things" and
> promises to post to the list "nice things".*
>
> Please keep an eye out for this behavior. While looking at the spam queue I
> came across this familiar pattern.
>
> User leaves generic short reviews and eventually makes their way to another
> CAPTCHA plugin with "Hey try this other captcha plugin, it worked swell for
> me!"
>
> http://wordpress.org/plugins/captcha/
>
> Which is from this plugin author.
>
> http://profiles.wordpress.org/bestwebsoft/
>
> Who has been spoken to about sock puppet accounts before.
>
> I've just deleted the posts and blocked these accounts for this.
>
> https://wordpress.org/support/profile/ylazi
> https://wordpress.org/support/profile/xwenelg
> https://wordpress.org/support/profile/scottie56
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jan Dembowski
>
> P.S. CAPTCHAs are awful. And I really have a thing for sock puppets.
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