microsoft / vsmarketplace

Customer feedback and issue tracker repository for Visual Studio Marketplace
MIT License
40 stars 10 forks source link

Cleanup Store and Prevent Spammers and Scammers #342

Closed hl2guide closed 2 years ago

hl2guide commented 2 years ago

Please quickly clean up and prevent spam in the marketplace. Please protect your users.

Recent Extensions URL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?target=VSCode&category=All%20categories&sortBy=PublishedDate

It's being spammed with these extensions:

e.g:

1

Please consider automatically blocking with rules like:

prashantvc commented 2 years ago

Thanks for reporting the issue, we are actively working on preventing these spam extensions. Meantime you may experience service degradation

We appreciate your patience ❤️

prashantvc commented 2 years ago

Please use this https://github.com/microsoft/vsmarketplace/discussions/343 for further discussion