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Re: Current ratings attack on CockHero Teases

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 3:31 am
by Human
Bandit224 wrote:
janmb wrote:The way to combat this, or at least make it such a lot of hassle that it hopefully would no longer be considered worth their while, would be to:

1. Require login
2. Require an account to exist for 1 month before being allowed to post on forums
3. Require at least 50 forum posts (subtract spam) to consider an account fully operational
4. Require a fully active account in order to rank teases at all
5. 1 vote per account, lifetime, global
I think #3 is too excessive. Some people are naturally not very talkative; we still want them to vote. #2 doesn't solve anything. A person planning on winning TOTM would only create 1000 accounts the month before. #1, #4, and #5 are pretty necessary though.

It would be interesting to see if the ratings would have been different with #3 in place (pre current attacks).
If the ratings would have been the same, then #3 would serve as an additional security measure against attacks.

Re: Current ratings attack on CockHero Teases

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:38 am
by Human
seraph0x wrote:I took a quick look at the logs and there is indeed a small IP block that has done a lot of votes on Cock Hero teases recently. Specifically it seems to be somebody from England using Orange Home. They are switching IPs and then voting repeatedly. :-|

No real way to prevent this - other than engaging in an endless arms race, where I try to block them and then they use a different method to get around the block. This is why we don't elect our politicians using online polls and why "moot" is the world's most influential person 2010. ;-)

Seraph, could you take a look at CH flux 5
http://www.milovana.com/webteases/showt ... p?id=14654

I believe it has been attacked in the past to lower its rating.

Re: Current ratings attack on CockHero Teases

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:43 am
by seraph0x
Human wrote:Seraph, could you take a look at CH flux 5
http://www.milovana.com/webteases/showt ... p?id=14654

I believe it has been attacked in the past to lower its rating.
:no: Sorry. This kind of investigating takes a lot of time and frankly I have the server issues to worry about right now.