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Script users: forum exploit?

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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#61 - 2012-12-28 17:19:34 UTC
Mr Pragmatic wrote:
Just imagine if there was a bounty button ...


I want this.
Fix Lag
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#62 - 2012-12-28 17:28:43 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Fix Lag wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:


I guess we are reduced now to having to inform about that from now on. What?


That word: I do not think it is used how you think it is used.


Now you are making no sense. As usua,l so nothing new to see here.


Yeah my opinions are so dumb and annoying that people put billions of ISK in bounties on me

CCP mostly sucks at their job, but Veritas is a pretty cool dude.
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#63 - 2012-12-28 17:41:01 UTC
Tippia wrote:
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
Ivbeen Cloned wrote:
How would getting likes be irritating in any way? Im curious...

When you get them constantly, it's hard to separate out frivolous likes from those from people who actually agree with your posts.

Nah. You just have to think of 1 as being the base number instead of 0. Blink

…also, I suppose you still have notifications turned on? I gave up on that ages ago for obvious reasons.

There's at least two "likers", FluffyDice and Destination SkillQueue

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Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#64 - 2012-12-28 17:44:54 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
Mr Pragmatic wrote:
Just imagine if there was a bounty button ...


I want this.


Pretty sure the 1st implementation would let us put bounties with money we don't have. Thats the way of code implementation. But then it would work.
Ekscalybur
Templar Services Inc.
#65 - 2012-12-28 18:29:45 UTC
flakeys wrote:
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
So I've noticed that I've been getting likes on posts that have been deleted or in threads that have been locked.
I have absolutely no clue how this is even possible, but I will say the constant likes are getting irritating.
What's the deal, yo?



Same here all of a sudden got about 70 likes in one day .Assumed someone was bored as hell so asked in my salesthread if the bored person could stop it as it's annoying.A day later i got 40 extra likes ..... Roll


This is Eve. If you ask someone to stop doing something, you can be sure 14 more people will see that and start doing what you asked to be stopped.

For instance, stop giving me Isk, its so annoying.

nerf Veldspar!
ashley Eoner
#66 - 2012-12-28 18:39:11 UTC
Woa I came back from Christmas with the family to 61 likes... there's no way that many people liked me. Then I saw this post..
Ivbeen Cloned
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#67 - 2012-12-28 18:40:38 UTC
I feel like one of you who hate getting these "likes" should start a real petition and get 25,000 signatures on it in order to force the white house to address this issue. Please link it once crerated. Thanks Big smile
Proletariat Tingtango
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#68 - 2012-12-28 19:31:22 UTC
I was slightly creeped out when I saw 30 likes all from the same guy, some on posts in locked threads from 6 months ago, like he was just going through my post history and clicking 'like' on my posts like some obsessive weirdo, but I'm happy to know it was just a script.

To be fair though, I deserved all of those likes, and it wouldn't be fair to the script user if he had to actually read all of my posts to heap that much praise on me.
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#69 - 2012-12-28 20:06:15 UTC
I consider 'Likes' as a quality-control measure - They don't tell me when I'm badposting, but they do tell me when I'm goodposting. Likewise, I could point out goodposting by others.

The scripts have pretty much wiped that tool out.
Other than that? Eh.

Tell someone you love them today, because life is short. But scream it at them in Esperanto, because life is also terrifying and confusing.

Didn't vote? Then you voted for NulBloc
stoicfaux
#70 - 2012-12-28 20:14:33 UTC
The mass likes are a scam to create credibility for throwaway alts:

Step 1: Create alt.
Step 2: Alt creates many useless posts.
Step 3: Give out mass likes as "holiday gifts."
Step 4: Post a 10 to 20 real posts with alt to create a credible posting history to fool a cursory background check.
Step 5: Use the Alt to scam with. Because an alt with a high like count and a large posting history is obviously not a throwaway alt.

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#71 - 2012-12-28 20:18:34 UTC
That sounds like a lot of work... Most scam victims aren't worth that much effort, for they won't take that much effort to background-check the scammers. Which is why scammers succeed.

Tell someone you love them today, because life is short. But scream it at them in Esperanto, because life is also terrifying and confusing.

Didn't vote? Then you voted for NulBloc
Panhead4411
Rothschild's Sewage and Septic Sucking Services
The Possum Lodge
#72 - 2012-12-28 23:26:10 UTC
CCP Eterne wrote:
. We believe it likely it will end after the new year,



Since nobody else has asked, wth makes you think that b/c it is a new calendar year ppl will stop using scripts to do something is potentially annoying lots of ppl on the forum?

But i do kinda miss the legit "like" count...

http://blog.beyondreality.se/shift-click-does-nothing    < Unified Inventory is NOT ready...
Karizahn Freemyst
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#73 - 2012-12-28 23:31:18 UTC
CCP Eterne wrote:
Just so everyone is aware, we know people are using scripts to hand out likes, we're currently discussing what, if anything, should be done about it. We believe it likely it will end after the new year, but if it continues to be a problem we'll see if there's some way to prevent a similar event from occurring in the future if it causes a large amount of distress.


I think it's pretty funny. But am surprised it hasn't been shut down yet.
Grey Stormshadow
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#74 - 2012-12-29 00:01:45 UTC
Chribba wrote:
In the beginning you could even like your own posts using js, now it's just a matter of using said js code to like post number XXXXXX

Which is what they're doing pretty much. Destination Skillqueue started with this pretty quickly after the forums were released, sorta showing how broken the like system is, not totally different from the bounty system in-game right now where everyone runs around with 100k bounties for the sake of it being possible.

Same goes with many of the likes when they script it like that.

/c

Yep... you can even find thread about how to exactly do it (with the actual script) from these forums... and hilarious dev comments from same thread :) Seemed perfectly fine thing to do at least back then.

Get classic forum style - custom videos to captains quarters screen

Play with the best - die like the rest
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#75 - 2012-12-29 03:18:54 UTC
Whoever is doing this, I like him too. Lol

Custom ship skins, character creator style "repaint". Bring it!
Katran Luftschreck
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
#76 - 2012-12-29 05:20:56 UTC
CCP Eterne wrote:
Just so everyone is aware, we know people are using scripts to hand out likes, we're currently discussing what, if anything, should be done about it. We believe it likely it will end after the new year, but if it continues to be a problem we'll see if there's some way to prevent a similar event from occurring in the future if it causes a large amount of distress.


I don't see anyone really complaining about it. Just sayin'

http://youtu.be/t0q2F8NsYQ0
Mars Theran
Foreign Interloper
#77 - 2012-12-29 08:15:55 UTC
So far I haven't had a big issue with it, but it has gone on longer than expected and seems to be spreading. I appreciate the likes of course, random as they are, if for no other reason than it count my forum posts. j/k..

..actually, I had no idea Chribba kept as good of track of all this as he does until this came along. It was rather interesting to see the likes graph and history for him and others, including myself. Quite a jump in the last week, no doubt. Smile

I've never considered likes super important, but I've never been frivolous with them either. Not in the giving, and certainly not in attempting to receive through the likes thread which does much the same thing, if for different reasons and somewhat more controllable fashion.

Either way, Like it or not, it has to ed sometime, and I notice today it has dropped off to nearly nothing. Perhaps the result of this thread. I don't think the givers really intend to cause any grief or have the ability to have their fun cut short.

It was interesting while it lasted. I think I gained somewhat more than 1100 likes through that. Blink
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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#78 - 2012-12-29 13:26:07 UTC
Katran Luftschreck wrote:
CCP Eterne wrote:
Just so everyone is aware, we know people are using scripts to hand out likes, we're currently discussing what, if anything, should be done about it. We believe it likely it will end after the new year, but if it continues to be a problem we'll see if there's some way to prevent a similar event from occurring in the future if it causes a large amount of distress.


I don't see anyone really complaining about it. Just sayin'



Can you see Petitions from where you are ?

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Ivan Paul Freely
Small Balls and Flying Machines
#79 - 2012-12-29 16:13:50 UTC
Not really anything wrong with them using scripts to wring tears, kind of funny.

However, if you really wanted to redo the likes system why not just use something like the old karma system from overgrow.com. I think we were allowed to give karma 5(?) times a day, and could give people either positive or negative. It meant that someones Karma score actually meant something as shitposters ended up with negative values.
Inkarr Hashur
Skyline Federation
#80 - 2012-12-29 16:37:07 UTC
Ivbeen Cloned wrote:
I was unaware until this thread that people actually cared if others "liked" what they were posting. Mind = Blown


Yeah. I generally don't like others liking what I post hehe.