Cheating is 1000% more than a year ago?

doublep · 2004-07-02, 01:13 PM

One of the biggest problems right now is site builders creating multiple accounts - I have been paying extra close attention to accounts that are created here by webmasters over the last few month or so, I have noticed that there are site builders creating several accounts at once in anticipation of the 1st one they use being deleted. So, all accounts that have zero submissions after 7 days are now deleted here.

Who are these webmasters? In my experience mostly from Poland (the biggest offenders are operating from this country) and the former USSR. It got the point that I have even considered banning the whole county from the server, which would be a shame really - why should I deny a whole country from accessing my resource because of a few bad apples. Plus, I do have 1 or 2 Polish submitters here who are honest.

Why are they doing it? This is the tricky question for me - if they were creating multiple accounts, subbing sites, then redirecting after a while, I could understand the reasoning behind their actions. But they don't - some of them sub sites, they get knocked back, some get a reason as to why they were rejected. Do they fix the problem - No. They carry on submitting with the same problems - the account gets deleted, they set up another.... an so on.

Another curious thing I have noticed. Is that some of them actually get it right - then shoot themselves in the feet. They sub a site, it gets listed, they sub more, they get listed. Then for no apparent reason some of them create another account under a different identity, and start subbing acceptable sites with both accounts. I catch them, I get suspicious, I delete them.

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2004-07-02, 01:13 PM	#27
doublep If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Europe Posts: 306	One of the biggest problems right now is site builders creating multiple accounts - I have been paying extra close attention to accounts that are created here by webmasters over the last few month or so, I have noticed that there are site builders creating several accounts at once in anticipation of the 1st one they use being deleted. So, all accounts that have zero submissions after 7 days are now deleted here. Who are these webmasters? In my experience mostly from Poland (the biggest offenders are operating from this country) and the former USSR. It got the point that I have even considered banning the whole county from the server, which would be a shame really - why should I deny a whole country from accessing my resource because of a few bad apples. Plus, I do have 1 or 2 Polish submitters here who are honest. Why are they doing it? This is the tricky question for me - if they were creating multiple accounts, subbing sites, then redirecting after a while, I could understand the reasoning behind their actions. But they don't - some of them sub sites, they get knocked back, some get a reason as to why they were rejected. Do they fix the problem - No. They carry on submitting with the same problems - the account gets deleted, they set up another.... an so on. Another curious thing I have noticed. Is that some of them actually get it right - then shoot themselves in the feet. They sub a site, it gets listed, they sub more, they get listed. Then for no apparent reason some of them create another account under a different identity, and start subbing acceptable sites with both accounts. I catch them, I get suspicious, I delete them.