On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Flavio Poletti <polettix@gmail.com> wrote:
After 10 days the bad ratings are still there, so I was curious to see whether I was the only one impacted and I discovered that I'm not. Most Dancer extensions have one-star ratings and no review at all, even though there seem to be reviews according to the search page. E.g. see http://search.cpan.org/search?m=all&q=dancer&s=41
I actually noticed this in several places, including your modules.
What do you think about it?
Perhaps I'm just paranoid, but it seems to me like continued abuse from people who, still unbeknown to me, do not like Dancer so much that they try deface anything related to it.
What can we do?
You can try to open a ticket with https://github.com/perlorg/perlweb. This is where you can address this as a bug, and have it responded to relatively quick. Not having any review but still only 1 star, on every module that you wrote, seems very much like abuse, or at least a possible bug. Although the CPAN Ratings idea was excellent, it seems to be very open to abuse. Unfortunately we apparently have a serious abuser (or abusers) in the Perl community. I reckon Google's +1 is a much better idea. Even though I don't think anyone in this list will do such a thing, I still want to emphasize not to "retaliate" whoever you think might be doing this. Do not go around writing bad reviews for others as "payback". Stay honest, stay fabulous. :)