That is pretty shitty behavior. I understand that the maintainer feels annoyed and betrayed, especially since it came from a partner. That said, the actual con

That is pretty shitty behavior. I understand that the maintainer feels annoyed and betrayed, especially since it came from a partner. That said, the actual consequences of the stats being manipulated on the project as a whole seems rather low? Someone was able to unfairly win a popularity contest for a while... Not a big deal. From Octoprint side it seems to be have been handled professionally and with integrity. If anything I think it increases my respect and trust for the project. So I hope the maintainer finds some time to sit back and relax, see that this was not a big problem in the grand scheme of things. One can laugh at these petty companies that are trying to game the high score list by cheating.