On my blog I offer visitors the options to rate the articles I write using either thumbs up/down or a 1-10 star rating.

I am interested in what content my readers like so these ratings (and of course comments you leave) indicate what kind of articles you like and which you don’t.

However some people feel the need to abuse this, take a look at this:

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My blog has been down for a short period, if you tried to open WordPress would redirect to wp-admin.install.php and you would see this message:

I suspected it was a database problem so I went to phpMyAdmin and did a check on all tables:

Even though MySQL reported all tables to be okay, I tried to repair the wp_options table since this is a common issue with WordPress and indeed this fixed the problem!