Thursday, November 24, 2011

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

Excerpts from Bram Moolenaar's message of Thu Nov 24 21:42:27 +0100 2011:
> I do think that a negative rating is useful.
It is - but not in the current shape.
If you give a negative rating its ok - but you should
- allow the author to remedy the issue
- force users dowvoting scripts to leave a message

Its ok to downvote for a reason such as "contains executable".
But its bad to have people provide negative rating and not knowing why!
The website should allow some minimal feedback.

> I have manually deleted the sequence of -1 ratings for script 2905.
> Not a thing that we should need to do often.
You're right: In open source malicious downvoting does not happen often
or should not. I've checked it: I can no longer access HTTP access logs.

Bram: do you still know when you changed the voting system using POST?
Then we can confirm what happened to Dr Charles Campbell's scripts.

Marc Weber

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