Link to a random online gambling site secretly embedded in OpenCollective sponsorship badge

[jwflory]

Summary

An online gambling site, presumably in Russian, appears to be linked under Supporters next to the OpenCollective sponsorship badge

Background

The image and link to the gambling site appear to be present in the OpenCollective SVG itself:

https://opencollective.com/opensourcedesign/tiers/sponsor.svg

This tomfoolery is likely to impact other OpenCollective sites, but I am not a regular user of OpenCollective to know. This looks to be a devious hack to gain major boosts in search engine optimization gains for this online gambling site.

Details

There is nothing to do in the site code here, except perhaps to make a custom SVG and replace the one served by the OpenCollective.

Alternatively, maybe there is a better way of flagging this issue to the OpenCollective staff because I would bet that O.S. Design is not the only one impacted by this issue. It appears to be a subtle hack on OpenCollective.

Outcome

Do not associate Open Source Design with an online Russian gambling site that has not actually sponsored or contributed anything

[jwflory]

I alerted @BenJam in the OpenCollective Slack, I forgot I was logged in there too.

[jwflory]

Actually actually, it isn't a hack, this site has legitimately contributed to the Collective, but it appears to contribute as an individual?

https://opencollective.com/igrovye-avtomaty

This is still confusing to me, and I'm not sure whether it makes sense or not for this link to be promoted on the OSD site… when I first saw the link and the way it was positioned among other Supporter logos, my first thought was this was not expected or that it was a hack.

I'll defer judgment to the OSD team. Sorry for making a lot of noise at once. There are some guidelines on rejecting OpenCollective contributions.

[BenJam]

as mentioned, Open Collective does have an issue with legitimate but unwanted behavior like this. We are working on an ethical policy so that we set expectations about the behavior we want to see and will reject, but we are not there yet.

For the moment you can reject this, and categories of supporters like this by following the guidance at https://docs.opencollective.com/help/collectives/moderation