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Re: Brickshelf hacked???
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 2 Sep 2013 22:52:02 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Chris Magno wrote:
You are right.  I see:

Views: 1724578787

and that is odd.  I wonder if it is a scripting there, where like Y2K, or some
such a number rolled over and the system populated that 1.7 billion number?



In lugnet.general, Steven Asbury wrote:
Take a look at the "most popular" folders on Brickshelf and you'll see five new
folders at the top of the first page.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/fhits.cgi

These folders seem very suspicious.

• Each folder has more than billion hits.

• However the individual images in each folder have relatively few hits (less
than 10,000 and some less than 1,0000).

• The contents of the folders – while interesting – aren't quite THAT
interesting.

• The folders seemed to get these hits almost overnight.

• Two of the folders are for WWII decals but not MOCs. I can't imagine decals
getting this many hits on Brickshelf.

I'm concerned about this for two reasons.

1. It appears someone is cheating the system. My guess would be through some
automated hit generator.

2. More importantly, when I'm showing people who are just starting with Lego the
best MOCS, I often refer them to Brickshelf's greatest hits page. Hate to see
the good stuff get buried behind spam.

Anyone know anything about this? I tried e-mailing Kevin, but I don't think he
checks his email or Facebook account.

-Steven

And can anyone explain why this folder
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=490129 is showing 3746713986
hits?

That makes it the second "most popular" folder on Brickshelf.

Again, the images within have less than 500 hits.

Very suspicious.

-Steven



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  Re: Brickshelf greatest hits
 
Looks like they're using automatic hit generators. (URL) front page of "most popular" is now a collection of people who have decided to cheat. Disappointing because I used to direct people to the greatest hits pages to see some truly exceptional (...) (11 years ago, 23-Sep-13, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Brickshelf hacked???
 
You are right. I see: Views: 1724578787 and that is odd. I wonder if it is a scripting there, where like Y2K, or some such a number rolled over and the system populated that 1.7 billion number? (...) (11 years ago, 26-Jul-13, to lugnet.general)

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