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Immediately went looking for how to be a reviewer or who reviewers currently are (vetted), but didn't find anything? Clicking into a package I'm invited to leav

Immediately went looking for how to be a reviewer or who reviewers currently are (vetted), but didn't find anything? Clicking into a package I'm invited to leave a review where I see it's tied solely to my GitHub login. Not bad, but hard to see how the reviews are approved or curated. The centralization could be nicer than having to read a bunch of blog posts to get the gist but I'd rather defer to a proven community (like Debian's package maintainers) for guidance on JS packages. That's not a thing today, so maybe this project is a good first step.

liorgrossman 6y ago
You got it right! Currently the only way to create an account is through GitHub login (we're going to add more options in the future). That means in order to write a review you have to log in with GitHub. Behind the scenes, text reviews do not show immediately, we go over them and approve them manually, to verify there's not bad behavior, spam, offensive content, etc. We plan on approving each text review ourselves manually until we're stretched too thin and this plan doesn't scale anymore.
- correct_horse 6y ago
  I was going to ask how you plan to prevent fake reviews, but this mostly answers that. Curious to see where you'll go after being stretched too thin.
  - liorgrossman 6y ago
    Yeah, preventing fake reviews is a tough challenge faced by much larger companies, like Amazon, Google and Facebook. I don't think anyone has been able to 100% prevent those, so it's still work in progress. I guess once we cannot do this ourselves, we're going to bring on additional team members to help with this, and once this is not enough, we'll have to use some combination of moderators (not very scalable), crowdsourcing (let users report suspicious reviews), and technology (identify and surface suspicious reviews). We honestly don't know yet, but we know it's going to be a priority.

liorgrossman 6y ago

You got it right! Currently the only way to create an account is through GitHub login (we're going to add more options in the future). That means in order to write a review you have to log in with GitHub. Behind the scenes, text reviews do not show immediately, we go over them and approve them manually, to verify there's not bad behavior, spam, offensive content, etc. We plan on approving each text review ourselves manually until we're stretched too thin and this plan doesn't scale anymore.

correct_horse 6y ago
I was going to ask how you plan to prevent fake reviews, but this mostly answers that. Curious to see where you'll go after being stretched too thin.
- liorgrossman 6y ago
  Yeah, preventing fake reviews is a tough challenge faced by much larger companies, like Amazon, Google and Facebook. I don't think anyone has been able to 100% prevent those, so it's still work in progress. I guess once we cannot do this ourselves, we're going to bring on additional team members to help with this, and once this is not enough, we'll have to use some combination of moderators (not very scalable), crowdsourcing (let users report suspicious reviews), and technology (identify and surface suspicious reviews). We honestly don't know yet, but we know it's going to be a priority.