RE: karma wrecking problem

More info on the rating attacks at vim.org/scripts:

Scripts with large negative ratings are shown at:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?order_by=rating&direction=ascending

Some old spam is shown in the above results. I will delete it in
a day or two. I was wondering if the rating attacks were aimed
at hiding spam (which are given negative ratings) by making lots
of scripts also have negative ratings. But that seems unlikely,
and nothing else I have investigated has given any
enlightenment, although I found one site which had a GET link
which, if clicked before Bram's recent fix, would have downrated
script 3464. To see it, search for "rating=unfulfilling" at:
http://lingr.com/room/vim/archives/2011/02/25

Vim-use discussions of rating attacks:

2011-09-01 "manpageview rating dive":
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/browse_thread/thread/f9356dc653688bdf/84dc21ab976ca0dc

2011-11-19 "rating manipulations on www.vim.org have taken place":
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/browse_thread/thread/889927c7afcea808

2011-12-14 "karma wrecking problem" [this thread]:
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/browse_thread/thread/4194463f37323fef

The first thread above discusses script 489 (Charles Campbell's
ManPageView). It received 811 negative ratings in 56 hours
starting 2011-08-12. There are quite a lot of other scripts that
appear to have suffered from rating attacks ... a mystery.

John

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