[wp-hackers] Extend / Plugins pwned

[Otto]

Something dodgy was happening. We noticed it at the top of the plugin
listings yesterday, with 175,000+ downloads in 1 day (from a previous
60-70 or so day before). Either the download counter was wacked or
somebody was gaming the listings.


-Otto



On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
> My other email still stands.. I couldnt see it last time either..
>
> Strange that its been removed though.. I've seen that plugin plenty of
> times, and was nothing dodgy :) (Other than supporting a lot of porn site
> embeds..) - Unless something dodgy was really happening!
>
> On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:21:58 +1000, Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:02 AM, scribu <scribu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If you go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ you'll see that the
>>> most
>>> popular plugin is xpress <http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xpress/>.
>>>
>>> It seems like the sorting algorhythm doesn't take ratings into account.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 404'd!!!!
>>
>> Looks like it's already been done did. *grin*
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> --
> Dion Hulse
> e: contact at dd32.id.au
> w: http://dd32.id.au/
> m: 04 6621 9112 (+614 6621 9112)
> WordPressQI: http://wordpressqi.com/
> _______________________________________________
> wp-hackers mailing list
> wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
>