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i surfing plugin directory other day, , noticed disturbing.
i looking @ solidres plugin can found here https://extensions.joomla.org/extension ... /solidres/ , noticed of reviewers, few exceptions have posted 1 100% review, solidres.
i thought bit suspicious. expect if plugin popular have had many posters post reviews other plugins.
i decided bit more, before wasted time had quick @ 12 popular plugins see normal spread* of single plugin review posts like. common spread of posters 1 review anywhere between 16% , 63%, average of 32%. hmm, alarm bells ringing now.
this noticed :
percentage of single review posters solidres
2013 44.44%
2014 53.85%
2015 70.00%
2016 96.67%
2017 93.48%
posts poster reviewed solidres, else, disappeared again. these not included in percentage calculations above, therefore percentage of fake reviews higher.
in 2015 4 reviews posted until december 14th 6 reviews posted between 14th , new year. of them overwhelmingly positive. every single 1 rated 100%.
it looks if discovered in december 2015 post fake reviews, , nobody sanction them it, because hasn't slowed @ since then.
since there have been 101 reviews posted reviewer has reviewed solidres. regular clockwork new review appears every few weeks, rates them 100% , "reviewer" disappears forever.
they seem averaging 5 reviews month, not plugins in "most popular" table below manage that, , @ rate solidres have posted 60 fake reviews end of 2017.
it's very, fishy. on face of it, plugin looks ok. nothing great, ok if solidres has post on 100 fake reviews there must wrong it. worse, why wasn't caught directory editors? why haven't been punished it? being protected?
this seems fraud on industrial scale. worse, means nobody can trust of other reviews on directory either if obvious fakes these go unpunished.
if these reviews aren't fake, think developer has created perfect extension pleases of people, of time, , has first in history of joomla (and other cms matter).
*
the 12 popular extensions , reviews in 2017. discounted contact enhanced calculating averages because has received 2 reviews in last year, it's outlier.
i looking @ solidres plugin can found here https://extensions.joomla.org/extension ... /solidres/ , noticed of reviewers, few exceptions have posted 1 100% review, solidres.
i thought bit suspicious. expect if plugin popular have had many posters post reviews other plugins.
i decided bit more, before wasted time had quick @ 12 popular plugins see normal spread* of single plugin review posts like. common spread of posters 1 review anywhere between 16% , 63%, average of 32%. hmm, alarm bells ringing now.
this noticed :
percentage of single review posters solidres
2013 44.44%
2014 53.85%
2015 70.00%
2016 96.67%
2017 93.48%
posts poster reviewed solidres, else, disappeared again. these not included in percentage calculations above, therefore percentage of fake reviews higher.
in 2015 4 reviews posted until december 14th 6 reviews posted between 14th , new year. of them overwhelmingly positive. every single 1 rated 100%.
it looks if discovered in december 2015 post fake reviews, , nobody sanction them it, because hasn't slowed @ since then.
since there have been 101 reviews posted reviewer has reviewed solidres. regular clockwork new review appears every few weeks, rates them 100% , "reviewer" disappears forever.
they seem averaging 5 reviews month, not plugins in "most popular" table below manage that, , @ rate solidres have posted 60 fake reviews end of 2017.
it's very, fishy. on face of it, plugin looks ok. nothing great, ok if solidres has post on 100 fake reviews there must wrong it. worse, why wasn't caught directory editors? why haven't been punished it? being protected?
this seems fraud on industrial scale. worse, means nobody can trust of other reviews on directory either if obvious fakes these go unpunished.
if these reviews aren't fake, think developer has created perfect extension pleases of people, of time, , has first in history of joomla (and other cms matter).
*
the 12 popular extensions , reviews in 2017. discounted contact enhanced calculating averages because has received 2 reviews in last year, it's outlier.
hi, great analysis!
feel free report reviews suspicious.
if you'd go 1 step further, join team fight spam!
best regard,
feel free report reviews suspicious.
if you'd go 1 step further, join team fight spam!
best regard,
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