Rising in the Rankings

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(05-30-2014 10:51 PM)amoffett11 Wrote:  I was little annoyed with this post, and that was even before I got to the end.

It might just be me, but this seems a little unethical/unsportsmanlike. I don't get it; you've gamed the system in order to show that it can be gamed? What's really happening is that you're bumping down people in the division, and later in the top 200, who have earned their spot.

Does anyone actually care if all these wins allow you to pass LER4T? No, because if you actually do pass him, it will be a shame that he's knocked off because of this.

The more I think about this, I consider this to be cheating, nothing more and nothing less. Looking at OSN, you haven't even beaten one real person. The fact that you've come on here and explained that you did all this for educational purposes or whatever changes nothing; this is cheating. Yes, this was possible before. But in almost 2 years of this game, no one has done it, because the rest of the Outwitters community has respect for this game.

I hope that either

A) you game these accounts right back down. I was thinking that you could just start a bunch of games against actual other people and then just give them up, but then you're gaming other players up and that just creates more problems

B) all these accounts just get deleted.

I think that the point of this wasn't to actually go high in the rankings, but to show that it can be done. It can sometimes take an incident like this to really cause this. It's kind of like incidents when hackers release a bunch of information to show weaknesses in systems. Maybe the matchup system will really be changed now. Everyone knew the system could be gamed, but it took something like this to show just how big the flaw is. I'm sure he intends to delete these accounts. If not, then it really would be unsportsmanlike. A&A should delete these accounts to prevent further bumping, but I think the record on OSN should stay.