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[Hellhawx]

badjezus007 wrote...

I am just pissed Cuz i didn't do the image thing, still got points taken away.
I am even more pissed because Bioware has yet to respond to this. and times awasting and I missing out on the auctions.

Thats misfortunate. Hopefully that gets squared away quickly.

[badjezus007]

Thanks for the sympathy man. Good luck on your prize.

[badjezus007]

I'd love you forever if you clicked. I'll also click yours

[Hellhawx]

badjezus007 wrote...

I'd love you forever if you clicked. I'll also click yours

done

[Mallissin]

Mad Method wrote...

Actually, not true. All you have to do is compare the list of IPs that viewed the referrer link and see if that IP loaded, say, a CSS stylesheet on the page they should have been redirected to that day. If it was the image trick, none of the content on that page would have been loaded. Alternatively, they could check the HTTP referrer headers on the clicks and see if the referrer urls contained an IMG tag pointing to the Bioware Bazaar, but that's more easy to circumvent and a hell of a lot more resource intensive. All of this, of course, assumes they kept such web logs. Anyhow, I code websites too.

I don't think the original redirect sent you anything more than some header information. Had there been more, than yes they could have done that in the logs. They could have also recorded every referrer with the unique IP and user ID, which is really creepy and unnecessary. A quick cookie check would have sufficed, since as I said a browser does not allow cookie information through tags like IMG. No cookie set, no unique click recorded.

They could have also limited the number of unique IPs registering for a User ID per minute or couple minutes. That would have slowed down the IMG trick, pyramid schemes and people proxy/torring, keeping as many types of cheaters honest at once.

Ah, hindsight!

[badjezus007]

Bump... CLICK

[badjezus007]

Click please. =) Thank you.

[cynicalsaint1]

Well I managed to win a poster pack last night, not exactly the t-shirt pack I was hoping for, but at least I got something for my effort. I probably would have a better shot at the shirts if I had known I wasn't going to lose all my tokens and had seriously tried to get clicks Thursday-Monday, I was managing 50 clicks a day without too much trouble when I was trying for it.

Or maybe I wouldn't have, b/c we still don't know exactly how they determined how many tokens to remove, if I had seriously tried to get clicks between Thursday and Monday, would I still lose those clicks because the reduction was a flat number, or would I have kept them because they actually had a method of removing only the 'ill-gotten' tokens? .... The world may never know.

Modifié par cynicalsaint1, 09 avril 2010 - 03:14 .