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

[Joost de Valk]

Hmm so a good spambot should switch IPs and not have too much history? ;-) *noted*



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On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Bob Ellison <bob.ellison at gmail.com>
wrote:

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