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Posted on: 12/11/15 03:59PM
For a couple of days now, I've been looking back at some of my posts and at first they get around 8 likes, but the next day, someone I'm guessing is spamming the dislike button and they instantly go down to around -10 or so. Even some comments that weren't in anyway horrible and had been up for a few days had some likes usually around 6. But overnight, they took a sharp nosedive to the negative digits. Has anyone else come across this annoyance?
Posted on: 12/11/15 05:13PM
Domestic_Importer said:
For a couple of days now, I've been looking back at some of my posts and at first they get around 8 likes, but the next day, someone I'm guessing is spamming the dislike button and they instantly go down to around -10 or so. Even some comments that weren't in anyway horrible and had been up for a few days had some likes usually around 6. But overnight, they took a sharp nosedive to the negative digits. Has anyone else come across this annoyance?
For a couple of days now, I've been looking back at some of my posts and at first they get around 8 likes, but the next day, someone I'm guessing is spamming the dislike button and they instantly go down to around -10 or so. Even some comments that weren't in anyway horrible and had been up for a few days had some likes usually around 6. But overnight, they took a sharp nosedive to the negative digits. Has anyone else come across this annoyance?
It's common. Some people have nothing better to do. The score isn't that important. It can affect search results depending on score threshold or if sorting by score but that's it. It is not a new problem and there isn't much we can do about it at the moment.
Posted on: 12/11/15 08:19PM
jedi1357 said:
It's common. Some people have nothing better to do. The score isn't that important. It can affect search results depending on score threshold or if sorting by score but that's it. It is not a new problem and there isn't much we can do about it at the moment.
Domestic_Importer said:
For a couple of days now, I've been looking back at some of my posts and at first they get around 8 likes, but the next day, someone I'm guessing is spamming the dislike button and they instantly go down to around -10 or so. Even some comments that weren't in anyway horrible and had been up for a few days had some likes usually around 6. But overnight, they took a sharp nosedive to the negative digits. Has anyone else come across this annoyance?
For a couple of days now, I've been looking back at some of my posts and at first they get around 8 likes, but the next day, someone I'm guessing is spamming the dislike button and they instantly go down to around -10 or so. Even some comments that weren't in anyway horrible and had been up for a few days had some likes usually around 6. But overnight, they took a sharp nosedive to the negative digits. Has anyone else come across this annoyance?
It's common. Some people have nothing better to do. The score isn't that important. It can affect search results depending on score threshold or if sorting by score but that's it. It is not a new problem and there isn't much we can do about it at the moment.
Okay understood thanks for responding, but I wish that there was a better way of preventing spamming of the like/dislike button.
Posted on: 12/12/15 12:45AM
Due to the way the internet works at a base level, there really isn't. There's nothing we can do to prevent people from using multiple IP addresses to vote multiple times.
Posted on: 12/14/15 05:17PM
Jerl said:
Due to the way the internet works at a base level, there really isn't. There's nothing we can do to prevent people from using multiple IP addresses to vote multiple times.
Due to the way the internet works at a base level, there really isn't. There's nothing we can do to prevent people from using multiple IP addresses to vote multiple times.
You could at least make it so it requires an account for voting/commenting/etc? I think that could make it harder for those frauds.
@Importer
The possibility that your pictures or comments are unappreciated also exists.
Posted on: 12/14/15 05:46PM
smackmybitchup said:
You could at least make it so it requires an account for voting/commenting/etc? I think that could make it harder for those frauds.
@Importer
The possibility that your pictures or comments are unappreciated also exists.
Jerl said:
Due to the way the internet works at a base level, there really isn't. There's nothing we can do to prevent people from using multiple IP addresses to vote multiple times.
Due to the way the internet works at a base level, there really isn't. There's nothing we can do to prevent people from using multiple IP addresses to vote multiple times.
You could at least make it so it requires an account for voting/commenting/etc? I think that could make it harder for those frauds.
@Importer
The possibility that your pictures or comments are unappreciated also exists.
Lozer has told me several times in the past that he has no plans to make any features that do not currently require an account require one.
Posted on: 12/14/15 06:08PM
Jerl said:
There's nothing we can do
There's nothing we can do
So... you actually just don't have any plans for it.
Posted on: 12/14/15 07:32PM
No, even if we restrict it to requiring accounts, that still wouldn't actually do anything about it. You are not required to enter an email address to register an account, so someone could easily just register a whole bunch of user accounts to do the same thing. Given that a lot of the people doing it already seem to be using scripts to speed the process up, this wouldn't really cause them much of a problem.
Even if we did require an email address, there are tons of services out there that will give you randomized throwaway email addresses you could use to register accounts.
Banning is only effective if users care about their user account. If you're already willing to set up a script so that you can flood comments with 80+ votes in the span of a couple minutes, registering accounts to do it isn't really going to slow you down. With IPv6, there's enough addresses for each individual grain of sand on earth to individually be assigned 4 trillion IPv6 addresses, and it's possible to create a Gelbooru user account for every one of those without even using intelligible words. They could create a new randomly-named user account for every individual vote and never run out.
Even if we did require an email address, there are tons of services out there that will give you randomized throwaway email addresses you could use to register accounts.
Banning is only effective if users care about their user account. If you're already willing to set up a script so that you can flood comments with 80+ votes in the span of a couple minutes, registering accounts to do it isn't really going to slow you down. With IPv6, there's enough addresses for each individual grain of sand on earth to individually be assigned 4 trillion IPv6 addresses, and it's possible to create a Gelbooru user account for every one of those without even using intelligible words. They could create a new randomly-named user account for every individual vote and never run out.
Posted on: 12/18/15 12:29AM
Right, but that's assuming most frauds here use an automated process. OP is talking about -10-ish negative votes. Something most inexperienced Professor Chaos can just do by hand.
I wasn't saying it would solve the entire problem. But it would make it harder for those who do it by hand, and they'd probably get bored faster of doing it. Sayin'?
I wasn't saying it would solve the entire problem. But it would make it harder for those who do it by hand, and they'd probably get bored faster of doing it. Sayin'?
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