Rising in the Rankings

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(05-31-2014 01:41 AM)[PETA] Cor13:4 Wrote:  I don't know, I kinda find it annoying that these games will also throw off the OSN statistics. Now that we have all the games recorded we were able to start doing some good analysis, but suddenly he inserts dozens of fake games that will throw off every statistic.

That's true. Maybe he should have posted in advance that he was doing this. It would also have given A&A a chance to tell him that he shouldn't do it for whatever reason.

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(05-31-2014 02:17 AM)amoffett11 Wrote:  I didn't think about how it throws off the stats as well; more reason that this is a pain.

Bbobb - I understand the comparison to hackers searching for weaknesses so that they can be defended, I thought of the same thing. But
A) no one asked him to do this. Typically these people are hired
B) while this has been a weakness for some time, no one has exploited it until now. This is a community of 99.9% fair players. And now that he's demonstrated the method to everyone, there's nothing to stop other people from doing the same. Again, I consider this to be cheating, no different than someone using a hack to gain extra wits, etc.

Unless the accounts are deleted, they'll still remain at the top of the ST division. I haven't been on Outwitters yet to see how far I'm behind now, but it's been my goal to be #1 this season, and I'll be really annoyed if I can't get there because someone decided to win 50 fake games at 3 in the morning when no one else was making games.

A) That's not always true. Think about the time hackers leaked Adobe passwords. The time AOL search histories were leaked. The time Snowden leaked NSA documents.
B) You have a point. I think that he should probably have PMed A&A about this weakness, and told them to do what they wanted with it, including deleting the accounts. But this is extremely time-consuming to execute, and I don't think cheaters will use it very often.

I think it's pretty self-evident that the accounts must be deleted, otherwise it really is cheating. And