462449 - Delete BigRedBrent review spam

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Administration, defect)

Description

[Dave Garrett]

"This is a nice addon. Also check out the web browsing speed enhancement addon "Fasterfox Lite": https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/9148 And the spell checker enhancement addon "SpellBound": https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/9207"

I got this in Flagfox review from user BigRedBrent.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/177629

19 out of the top 20 add-ons have this review. (and I suspect there was a 20th, but it was already deleted) Someone please look into this.

All 3 of his add-ons are just re-hashes of other add-ons. His theme is just a remix of others', Fasterfox has quite a history (at least it's without prefetching this time), and I don't know why anyone would feel the need to install an old spellchecker extension into a browser with built-in spellchecking.

Comment 1

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

Send him a note.  Reopen if you find more, but I'm not going to suspend his account at this time.

Note:
We noticed you have posted comments on all top 20 addons.  Those comments don't serve those addons any purpose, and are obviously to promote yours -- so please respect other addon developers and avoid posting spam comments.  We'd like to keep comments constructive.

Comment 2

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

*Sent

Comment 3

[Dave Garrett]

+24 more skimming through more add-ons. I just stopped checking after the top ones.

Comment 4

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

i'll get a comment count by user id and keep track of it.

Comment 5

[Dave Garrett]

I don't suppose you could just delete all of his recent reviews at once to clean up the mess? Otherwise you'd have to wait for 43 or more individuals to report these.

Comment 6

[Dave Garrett]

Of course that's assuming I'm too lazy to click report for them all, which I am.

Comment 7

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

Hmm.

Comment 8

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

He actually makes some other useful comments, but we could probably do a batch removal of everything starting with "This is a great addon."

Comment 9

[Dave Garrett]

Fair enough. Just out of curiosity, how many of these are there?

Comment 10

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

Don't know, my dump is older, need to take a fresh dump and rerun the query.

I said "dump".

Comment 11

[Dave Garrett]

(In reply to comment #10)
> Don't know, my dump is older, need to take a fresh dump and rerun the query.
> 
> I said "dump".

My first thought: "oh, great, he's two"
My second thought: "yeah, but I'm laughing too..."

Comment 12

[Dave Garrett]

Here, I'll morph the bug to the cleanup request.

Comment 13

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

My fresh dump says:
"this is a nice addon"  = 45
"this is a great addon" = 2

Comment 14

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

delete from translations where id in (248080, 248082, 260926, 260928, 260930, 260932, 260934, 260936, 260938, 260940, 260942, 260946, 260948, 260950, 260952, 260954, 260956, 260958, 260960, 260962, 260964, 260966, 260968, 260970, 260972, 260974, 260976, 260978, 260981, 260983, 260985, 260987, 260989, 260991, 260993, 260995, 260997, 260999, 261001, 261003, 261005, 261007, 261009, 261011, 261013, 261019, 261021);
delete from reviews where body in (248080, 248082, 260926, 260928, 260930, 260932, 260934, 260936, 260938, 260940, 260942, 260946, 260948, 260950, 260952, 260954, 260956, 260958, 260960, 260962, 260964, 260966, 260968, 260970, 260972, 260974, 260976, 260978, 260981, 260983, 260985, 260987, 260989, 260991, 260993, 260995, 260997, 260999, 261001, 261003, 261005, 261007, 261009, 261011, 261013, 261019, 261021);

Comment 15

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

see bug 462429 for the push