it's quite sus that such great effort was taken just for the sake of being a maintainer (which is a non-paid volunteer role) of some package. i think some sort of security audit should take place to fully clarify this situation, because such pattern strongly remind some sort of social engineering hack attempt, for example for including some unwanted payload to one of "concurrenting" package, especially considering that wechat app itself is covered with rumors about spyware
On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM Kimiblock Moe <kimibl...@icloud.com> wrote: > Hello, > > First, there's no need to shorten our names. It's not something like a > prohibited word. > > aur/wechat was wechat-uos-bwrap and wechat-uos-qt respectively before. > They are merged into wechat on that very day because I'm busy doing > other stuff before that and rushing will probably result in a broken > package. > > The guidelines was already written well before. *I'd say you can't only > support the rules when you benefit from it*, after all rules are rules. > It exists to reduce confusion and prevent duplicated effort spent, which > sadly did not happen to this app. > > Hostile actions are taken by some problematic users including cursing, > spamming and harassment towards maintainer and her family. You have > chosen to hide the fact that comment & requests spam is happening > everyday on wechat and, the guidelines have moderation effect. Some > users reported to me that multiple voting requests towards wechat-bin > has happened in WeChat's official QQ group presumably to gain votes > maliciously and mislead people to spam wechat's comment area, though > this is not verified by me. > > My blog posts are indeed expressing negative feeling of prolonged action > delay, it was not targeted at anyone and you can safely consider it as a > rant and not some harassment that actually happened on the AUR. > > Regarding the replaces array, that happened before moderators sort out > whether -bin is a duplicated package. > > There was nothing "silenced". Even harassment comments are still there > as you have posted several of them. And you seems to be ignoring the > fact wechat-bin still contains no modification. To me those users is > simply having too much conformity and somewhat a cult of the leader. I > hope this can be proven wrong though. > > Have a nice day. > > > -- > Sincerely, > Kimiblock > >
