Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Charles Campbell wrote:
Charles Campbell wrote:
Hello!
I recently checked my plugins' ratings:
08/09/11 script 677/279/10776: Manpageview.vim
08/31/11 script -133/1094/10866: Manpageview.vim
This seems like an odd thing -- is this preparation for a general
bombing of plugins' ratings?
I should explain this a bit more. The rating for Manpageview on
August 9, 2011 was 677, with 279 people having rated it, and 10776
having downloaded it.
On August 31, 2011, the rating was -133, 1094 people having rated it,
and 10866 having downloaded it.
It is odd that Manpageview received -810 in karma when there were only
90 additional downloaders over that time period. Did irc have a
anti-Chip attack? Is someone testing a bot to destroy multiple
plugins' ratings?
Can't find it currently, but someone mentioned in the not-so-distant
past that some search engine(s) grabbed the down-vote URL when crawling
www.vim.org. In this case, googling:
site:www.vim.org inurl:unfulfilling
(where 'unfulfilling' is the 'rating' value for a down-vote) comes up
with exactly one result for me:
ManPageView - Viewer for manpages, gnu info, perldoc, and php …
With the link: (...'s to prevent clicking)
http://.../scripts/script.php?script_id=489&rating=unfulfilling
And I may have accidentally just downvoted it myself, by hovering over
the result (which pops up a preview).
Seems like the ratings should only use $_POST (PHP var), but they appear
to be using $_GET, too.
Nice bit of sleuthing! So perhaps the large downvoting is due to bots
such as google, yahoo, bing, etc., and I suppose Manpageview can expect
a continuing more-of-the-same.
Bram: any chance that this situation can be fixed?
Regards,
Chip
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