I just wanted to mention https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/MP-7332/Help-plugin-owners-to-defend-against-harassment , because it’s super easy to harass plugin owners, send fake reviews, but we cannot defend. Feel free to up-vote this youtrack issue. Thanks.

@Albert A new one: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/16604-extra-toolwindow-colorful-icons/reviews#115615

What happened between you two that made him resent you so much?

I have no idea. I can only say that I started to receive toxic reviews the day I started to sell plugins, in March 2022. Other authors of paid plugins have the same problem, but some of them simply gave up (they don’t waste their time asking for moderation), and their ranking on the marketplace dr…

@Albert Again: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/16604-extra-toolwindow-colorful-icons/reviews#115746 [image]

@Albert @natalia.melnikova The same toxic user is able to send multiple reviews for the same plugins… https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/16604-extra-toolwindow-colorful-icons/reviews#115784 (plus the previous one) [image]

It continues… Can you please do something? [image]

cc @Albert @natalia.melnikova A new one https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/16604-extra-toolwindow-colorful-icons/reviews#116252 [image] And https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/16604-extra-toolwindow-colorful-icons/reviews#116069 is still there.

[image] ( https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/16604-extra-toolwindow-colorful-icons/reviews#116725 ) Can you please ban user “483271406” (previously “X”, then “AlD1ck”)? @Albert @natalia.melnikova Thanks

Just curious, if you didn’t get the one-star removed, does this comment keep appearing (e.g. a second one gets posted, then a third, etc). I wonder if you just left it for a long period of time if it would get “buried” among other 4 or 5 star reviews and eventually disappear from the main plug-in re…

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jonathanlermitage.1 (Jonathan Lermitage) April 30, 2025, 12:34pm 24

Waiting for 3 days. Can you please do something? Thanks

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