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Photo Digg can be easily gamed
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http://things.co.il/blog/364
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Yohay
62 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 22 hours agoPicli.com, a new site that is the “Digg for Photos” launched recently. It aims to be a site where users can share links to photo. The site is totally immature. There are various flaws. The biggest problem is the easy “gaming” possibility. This is how I did it:
#1 - By RBA, 62 months, 1 week, 4 days, 20 hours ago.
Any voting system that does not require an account can be easily gamed. They check your IP? Obtain a new one from your ISP? They leave a cookie? Delete the old one... And of course, if they require a new account, like Digg or coRank, well, just go ahead an create as many accounts as you need.
However, and because none of this can be easily automated, you must REALLY want to go for it, and spend precious time "gaming" the system. In the end, one hour of "work" could give you a dozen votes or so. Worth the time? Probably not. Also keep in mind that sites like Digg or Pligg have the bury feature - that you cannot control - and in sites like coRank, if you create 20 accounts and use them all to give a positive vote to a story, that doesn't guarantee that other people will see your story, since those 20 accounts will likely not be a source for any other coRank users. | |
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