Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Re: karma wrecking problem

On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 10:11:38 PM hsitz wrote:
> I'm author of the VimOrganizer plugin.
> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3342
>
> Earlier today it had a little over 1100 downloads -- maybe 1105 to
> 1110 -- with around 35 votes and 120 or 125 total karma. I just
> checked the page and it now has jumped up to 1133 downloads, 57
> votes and 98 total karma.
>
> It appears that there were 22 or 23 votes today, all for -1 karma.
> Seems like someone has a campaign to lower the ratings of the
> plugin.
>
> Is there any way to fix this? Some way to prevent this from
> happening?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Herb Sitz

Hi Herb,

I just read about this sort of thing in one of the trade mags. Turns
out for about 20 cents per review, you can have workers in China give
your site an excellent review (or perhaps a competitor a bad one).
Makes me a little nervous when I put such high reliance on ebay
sellers'reputations, and now I find out for a few hundred dollars they
can get thousands of positive reviews.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

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