My public statement for being banned for a month
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:38 pm
While I was on vacation, our position on the Extensions directory dropped from #1 to #5. This got me wondering a bit and when I finally was at home, I did a quick check for why this would be.
It turned out that all the votings that Helder and I had committed a long time ago, on our own and the other guys extensions (the "competition") were deleted. So I reinstalled the votings and the order was as it was before.
Half a week later (today), I get an email telling me that our two accounts were blocked, as our extensions directory entry is. The directory team was "reported that votings in 'Payment' category suddenly changed yesterday". Of course that changed I thought - I had done just that. I thought I was following democratic principles and that it would be a common measure of developers in competition to cast their vote on others - in the end, it were just two votes on each.
Turns out, that when I was on vacation, there was the cleaning house effort to reduce the number of fraudulent votings. Apparently, a lot of developers have created dummy accounts to vote for lots of entries of the competition and to push the luck of their own. And apparently, I now fall into this category.
Before they told me of that today, I wrote the team that we had committed these votings and that I thought that I was just doing what everybody else does (in other ways, I was told that I was... O_o) and that I would have no problem starting at zero again if that was an appropriate measure for them.
Well, it seems it is not appropriate and that they would rather keep my entry and the two accounts banned for a month.
There you go - this will be a very quiet month (given that half of our visitors come from the directory) and I will have lots of time for programming
It turned out that all the votings that Helder and I had committed a long time ago, on our own and the other guys extensions (the "competition") were deleted. So I reinstalled the votings and the order was as it was before.
Half a week later (today), I get an email telling me that our two accounts were blocked, as our extensions directory entry is. The directory team was "reported that votings in 'Payment' category suddenly changed yesterday". Of course that changed I thought - I had done just that. I thought I was following democratic principles and that it would be a common measure of developers in competition to cast their vote on others - in the end, it were just two votes on each.
Turns out, that when I was on vacation, there was the cleaning house effort to reduce the number of fraudulent votings. Apparently, a lot of developers have created dummy accounts to vote for lots of entries of the competition and to push the luck of their own. And apparently, I now fall into this category.
Before they told me of that today, I wrote the team that we had committed these votings and that I thought that I was just doing what everybody else does (in other ways, I was told that I was... O_o) and that I would have no problem starting at zero again if that was an appropriate measure for them.
Well, it seems it is not appropriate and that they would rather keep my entry and the two accounts banned for a month.
There you go - this will be a very quiet month (given that half of our visitors come from the directory) and I will have lots of time for programming
