Earlier this week, I reported a bad ad (scareware) via Twitter, and the advertiser was subsequently banned. Today, I found another bad ad; searching for “e-sword” yields an ad to buy e-Sword on eBay; last I knew, the e-Sword license agreement forbids selling copies, so this ad is clearly scamming. There have also, in the past, been Amazon-based ads that probably shouldn't pass Safe Search.

It seems that it might be useful to provide a way for willing users to easily flag bad ads - maybe nothing enabled by default (so people aren't overly tempted to use it inappropriately & increase flag volume), but something that can be turned on or added on (e.g. Greasemonkey script). I'd happily flag bad/sketchy ads or sponsored links, even w/ a 1-sentence message as to why, if that would help police advertising to keep it high-quality and useful to users.

Currently, the !mvn bang uses the search on http://mvnrepository.com.  Maven Central now has an official search service at http://search.maven.com - could the !mvn bang be redirected to use the official one?  !mvnrepo or something could stick around for mvnrepository.com, but the official one seems much more useful (better UI, stays up to date faster).

Looks like this formula should do it: http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|{{{query}}}