Re: rating manipulations on www.vim.org have taken place

On 18.11.11 21:11, Marc Weber wrote:
> It happened to a plugin of tpope and to one of mine:
>
> 31 down ratings in sequence on 2011-08-06 between 18:234 and 22:05
> 310 down ratings in sequence on 2011-08-08 between 10:39 and 22:25
> 509 down ratings in sequence on 2011-08-08 between 01:39 and 18:30

<$0.02>
Since it only takes one rotten apple out there, to render a negative
voting system maliciously destructive of volunteer effort, yesterday
begins to look like a good time to turn this off. Any contact mechanism
which provides explicit detailed defect/deficiency feedback to the
author seems productive, in contrast. Public scrutiny makes a mailing
list (or a bugtracker/wishlist_logger) better suited for keeping
negative feedback real, I think.

A corrupted voting scheme does not seem to be as helpful as no voting
scheme.
</$0.02>

Erik

PS: The targetting of VAM is perhaps a mark of its popularity.

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