I don't know if it would be worth the effort, but I wonder if a Stack Overflow-esque rep system for packages would work. In a perfect world, I'm sure, but maybe not so much in ours.

-W

On Feb 16, 2018 6:24 PM, "Matt Gieger" <mattbju2013@gmail.com> wrote:

I would like to see a clause added to the "Ivalid Package" section of PEP541 that allows some mechanism for other pypi users to mark a package as spam. Every day i see more spam packages added to pypi and currently the only way to get them removed is to create an issue in github.

-Meichthys

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