Monday, June 5, 2017

Re: looks like a bot or something is clobbering ZoomWin's ratings

Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Charles Campbell wrote:
>
>> I don't check all that often, but I note that ZoomWin's ratings have
>> plummeted by 473 points since Feb 22 this year (on vim.sf.net).
>> In the past, I've pulled plugins that have experienced bot attacks like
>> this, as their ratings never seem to be restored, and it obviously
>> discourages folks from trying the plugin out.
>> If and when I do pull ZoomWin, you'll still be able to find it on my
>> website (http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#ZOOMWIN).
>>
>> FYI: with ZoomWin, a ctrl-w o will "zoom into" the current window (ie.
>> it will become the only window), and a subsequent ctrl-w o will restore
>> the former display.
> Looks like a sequence of "-1" votes got added in a small time range on
> April 9 and 10. IP addresses are all over the place. Weird.
>
> I tried to remove those rows from the table, but I think something went
> wrong, it looks like all votes for the script were deleted. But the
> displayed count didn't actually change.
>
Thank you for trying to fix it!
Chip Campbell

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