[wp-forums] bad plugin?

Jennifer Roberts wpyogimail at gmail.com
Sat Apr 20 13:20:24 UTC 2013


He's baaaack (same IP) - http://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-wordpress-site-was-in-debug-mode-tons-of-errors?replies=8&view=all


On Apr 13, 2013, at 9:13 PM, Mika A Epstein wrote:

> He's swearing he fixed the plugin, too (pro-tip, EVERYONE can see your SVN checkins, no you didn't). (Also we're 'killing' his brand...)
> 
> I called him out on the pointing at other plugins, though I will still make sure there isn't anything wrong with them.
> 
> Jan Dembowski wrote:
>> 
>> And he's still using sock puppet accounts (same IP) just to trash his
>> competition? Some people just never learn when to stop.
>> 
>> I don't know the story behind his creating admin users with his plugin (how
>> can that be possibly justified?) but this guy is working hard on getting
>> blocked.
>> 
>> Jan Dembowski
>> 
>> On Saturday, April 13, 2013, Jennifer Roberts wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Two of these guys are still up to no good - now "reporting" bad plugins??
>>> LOL ((in spam or deleted))
>>> 
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/profile/vincelittle20
>>> 
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/profile/wp-plugin-guru
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Apr 12, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Mika A Epstein wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> That's weird.
>>>> 
>>>> Once you remove a plugin, it's gone, unless it's writing to another file
>>> 
>>> somewhere and force-reinstalling it. I don't see anything in that plugin
>>> doing it, but I'll pass it up to the plugins team. Randomly, I saw someone
>>> else have a recurring folder problem (not WP related) but it was his backup
>>> software.
>>>> 
>>>> As for the users, I'll go hit 'em with a brick. Serial accounts, ffs...
>>>> 
>>>> Drew wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yeah. Actually olgarnold& beatruceus share 1 IP, and wp-plugin-guru (the
>>>>> author), john.maker786, annarenaud9, vince.little20, and paul.basson32
>>>>> share another IP.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sneaky sneaky.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Jan Dembowski<jan at dembowski.net<javascript:;>>
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Laughter. Chris beat me to it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Chris Olbekson<chris at c3mdigital.com<javascript:;>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> I just looked at the reviews and they all come from the same ip
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> address
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> except for 1 which is in a different subnet.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Apr 12, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Jennifer Roberts<wpyogimail at gmail.com<javascript:;>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Re:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-plugin-is-installing-itself-automatically-every-morning-after-i-delete-it?replies=1&view=all
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> FWIW - I noticed a few days ago that the dev wrote his own review and
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> then within a short time 6 almost identical 5-star reviews appeared -
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> seems
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> kinda fishy?
>>>>>>>> 
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