Posted July 29, 2013

Mentao
Skull Leader
Registered: Jul 2012
From Panama

Grufferscratch
Registered: Nov 2010
From United States
Posted July 29, 2013
Agreed, and that gives it some utility in scientific or industrial sectors, but not on someone's ring finger to waggle at the Joneses. The main thing rep does here is give people something to abuse and other's to get upset about. Bleh, I say.

jamotide
Jack Keane 2016!
Registered: Jul 2011
From Netherlands
Posted July 29, 2013
All I did was call out your misinterpretations, I mean they were really obvious, so maybe that was rude of me? I just said I have fun discussing with you. You took that as proof that I am a troll and that the accounts/hours mixup was deliberate.
How about we talk about that, why would I deliberately try to replace hours with accounts? Because 100 accounts isnt crazy enough already? Because nobody would notice the huge difference between 100 hours and accounts? Ridiculous that you still think so. Thats even more ridiculous than your other crazy theory.
How about we talk about that, why would I deliberately try to replace hours with accounts? Because 100 accounts isnt crazy enough already? Because nobody would notice the huge difference between 100 hours and accounts? Ridiculous that you still think so. Thats even more ridiculous than your other crazy theory.
Post edited July 29, 2013 by jamotide

xyem
Old-ish User
Registered: Sep 2010
From United Kingdom

JMich
A Horrible Human Person. If you need me, chat.
Registered: Apr 2011
From Greece
Posted July 29, 2013

For 5 accounts you need (at most) 5 minutes of run time for the script, for 100 accounts you need a bit less than two hours. Combine that with any other activity, and the number of accounts for derepping does become irrelevant, especially if a higher amount of accounts make a more noticeable hit, and a more difficult to recover one as well.
Hell, I think the 1 account per minute (and 10-20 derreped posts) should be doable manually as well, so you just need someone with a bit of time on their hands. And 2 hours is time usually available, especially for "revenge".

HomerSimpson
Twerk resistant
Registered: Aug 2010
From United States

jamotide
Jack Keane 2016!
Registered: Jul 2011
From Netherlands

JMich
A Horrible Human Person. If you need me, chat.
Registered: Apr 2011
From Greece
Posted July 30, 2013
What is this "wild shit" I came up with? The time it takes to make an account? The time it takes to refresh a page, sending the data again? Or the fact that it can be automated?
Please, enlighten me. Or if you'd like, I could do a proof of concept later on. I won't mess with rep, and I will give you a good estimate of how many accounts can be made in an hour.
Please, enlighten me. Or if you'd like, I could do a proof of concept later on. I won't mess with rep, and I will give you a good estimate of how many accounts can be made in an hour.

xyem
Old-ish User
Registered: Sep 2010
From United Kingdom

JMich
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Registered: Apr 2011
From Greece
Posted July 30, 2013
My idea for a proof of concept would be to make a new wishlist entry, then start voting for it with new accounts. Even assuming half the votes were cast by other users, it should give a good estimate of how many accounts can be made in an hour to vote for something. Adding extra tabs for more posts shouldn't be that big of a problem.

xyem
Old-ish User
Registered: Sep 2010
From United Kingdom
Posted July 30, 2013


SimonG
SimonG597
Registered: Sep 2010
From Germany

JMich
A Horrible Human Person. If you need me, chat.
Registered: Apr 2011
From Greece
Posted July 30, 2013
That assumes I have a script setup for creating accounts, which I don't (no use atm). So I would be also doing it manually, but a comparison between two people would make sense I guess.

xyem
Old-ish User
Registered: Sep 2010
From United Kingdom
Posted July 30, 2013

An account creating script would be closer to 100 accounts per minute anyway, I don't think we can compete with that, even working together :P

Potzato
Village Resident
Registered: Sep 2008
From Spain
Posted July 30, 2013
We have a human reference : If TinyE's rep reaches 200, then it means evil hell-reppers really slowed the pace of their mischievous craft.