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Re: Whats wrong with my MOCpage?
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:29:17 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Tim McSweeney wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Samarth Moray wrote:
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1) Ratings too high or too low: Has anyone else noticed their ratings
become impossibly low? (like below zero) or impossibly high (above 5) looky
here: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/3296 I just think this can’t happen
if the *average* rating is taken, right? If this is normal/correct, I’m cool
with it.
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I can’t help with the other issues, but this one could be caused by
unscrupulous people exploiting the fact that MOCPages doesn’t seem to range
check the input for voting.
I just conducted a quick experiment, by copying the URL the page provides to
vote for 5 smilies:
http://www.mocpages.com/vote_ACTION.php?id=6112&vote=5
and editing the value at the end:
http://www.mocpages.com/vote_ACTION.php?id=6112&vote=500000
I managed to give your train a vote of 500,000 smilies, which pushed the
average up to over 30,000. Panic not, I’ve changed my vote back down to a
reasonable value, but less scrupulous people could use this in more subtle
ways to effectively control the vote.
Cheers
Tim
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Hello Samarth,
(And, Tim, thanks for the explanation.) I’ve noticed the same thing with the
voting on MOCpages. I have three out of range results.
-3 out of 5
5.5 out of 5
0.5 out of 5
So far I’ve only found them amusing and I assumed they were part of the reason
that the voting was unavailable a while back and that they would be fixed
eventually. There may well be more out of range votes but if the results are
within range only the MOCpage admin would be able to tell. The votes are stored
by MOCpages so it should be easy for them to find who is doing it or at least
block those addresses.
This would be worth taking up with MOCpages; just click the contact link at the
bottom of any MOCpage.
Peace and votes,
Professor Whateverly
P.S. I see the black thumbnails too. but I don’t know what’s causing that.
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