[wp-testers] "spam" attacks on WP.org / plugin rating

[Stephen Rider]

On Apr 17, 2008, at 2:06 PM, deliciousdays wrote:

> Just wondering, if you also noticed -for lack of a better term-  
> "spam" attacks on your plugins' rating (score).
> A couple of days ago, I noticed the first one: 15 one star ratings  
> within an extremely short period of time.
> Today, the same thing happened....

Maybe something to do with the fact that the most popular plugins now  
get free advertising on everybody's Dashboard by default?  Big ol'  
target for manipulation.