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

[Greg Troxel]

Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, 21 Aug 2026 at 03:22, Lova Andriarimalala via QGIS-Developer
> <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> I agree. So, in my understanding, the consensus is that we can
>> safely remove it from the plugin manager and then from
>> plugins.qgis.org. Removing it from plugins.qgis.org would probably
>> require some communication so that people relying on it are aware of
>> the removal. If there are strong motivations or suggestions
>> regarding the system, is it possible to re-open the discussion?
>
> I think there's still value in it, and showing it as a read-only
> property directly in the plugin manager.

Do you mean:

   Fetch the existing stats and display them, but disable the ability to
   record new votes?

   Fetch, and keep the current anonymous vote counter?

   Fetch, and implement some kind of counting scheme with ?? other
   features?