[QGIS-Developer] Rating abuse issue on the QGIS Plugins Website

[Greg Troxel]

Lova Andriarimalala via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
writes:

> Following the plugin rating abuse issue reported at
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Plugins-Website/issues/416 and
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Plugins-Website/issues/420, I wonder if
> someone could help or share some thoughts about it.

Stepping back, why does the QGIS project feel the need to support a
rating system for third-party code at all?

Why not just remove all rating data, and remove the code in qgis to
fetch ratings and vote?