[wp-forums] Plugin sock puppet reviews: [easy-media-gallery]

[andrew nevins]

No, lol that took me at least an hour to investigate ;) But as I was
blocking the accounts I saw that other reviews had been made. It would be
reasonable to assume the same thing's happened to the other plugin - will
investigate that asap but can't atm sorry!

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Websiteguy <webguywp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you checked his other two plugins for it?
>
> -----Original Message----- From: andrew nevins
> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 9:42 AM
> To: For forum moderators. See also http://make.wordpress.org/support/
> Subject: [wp-forums] Plugin sock puppet reviews: [easy-media-gallery]
>
> Plugin name: easy-media-gallery
>
> Author's IPs as found from support topics:
>
>   - 110.137.245.158
>   - 125.166.205.120
>   - 180.254.105.170
>   - 36.73.78.173
>
> All of them point to the same WhoIs information, the "desc" information for
> example is always this:
>
> descr:          PT TELKOM INDONESIA
> descr:          STO Gambir 3rd Floor
> descr:          Jl. Medan Merdeka Selatan No. 12
> descr:          Jakarta 10110
>
> Okay, now for the threads:
>
> *Related to 36.73.78.173*
>
>   1.
>   https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thank-you-550?replies=1&
> view=all&message=deleted
>   2.
>   https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-photo-gallery-
> plugin?replies=1&view=all#post-6567111
>   3.
>   https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brilliant-gallery-
> plugin?replies=1&view=all#post-6563030
>   4.
>   https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-gallery-plugin?
> replies=1&view=all#post-6502089
>   5.
>   https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highly-recommend-12?
> replies=1&view=all#post-6271676
>   6.
>   https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-gallery-
> plugin-1?replies=1&view=all#post-6227626
>   7.
>   https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-and-useful-66?
> replies=1&view=all#post-6219808
>
> *Related to 180.254.105.170*
>
>   1.
>   https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wonderful-gallery-
> plugin?replies=1&view=all#post-6331877
>   2.
>   https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-gallery-plugin-14?
> replies=1&view=all#post-6110274
>   3.
>   https://wordpress.org/support/topic/awesome-gallery-plugin-
> 1?replies=1&view=all&message=deleted
>
> *Related to 110.137.245.158*
>
>   1.
>   https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-gallery-plugin-11?
> replies=1&view=all#post-5840732
>
> *Related to 125.166.205.120*
>
>   1.
>   https://wordpress.org/support/topic/effective-tool-1?
> replies=1&view=all#post-4083335
>
>
> Looks like a large chunk of 5 star reviews have already been removed from
> this plugin, maybe this is a regular puppeteer?
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