@softech wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@softech : You know the "post count" thing is a strategy to hopefully snag a solution by way of "closing" the thread or more likely collect bravos from friendlies or even the OP being polite...right?
May as well lay out all the possible scenarios as I think of them.
You missed an important element in bravos that some members are practicing here daily.. collect bravos from one's own secondary accounts.. aka fake accounts
The simplest way to control that sort of abuse is to only count the bravos and solutions awarded from community accounts which are linked to self-serve accounts.
There's really no other way for PM to deal with sockpuppet accounts, aside from issuing unique user tokens, tracking unique hardware identifiers like MACs and IPs, analyzing backend user metrics, etc. All stuff which is privacy-invasive. And all stuff which, I think, is far beyond the abilities of PM (or Telus) website people.
PM's secret sauce formula for determining community rewards is already kept deliberately opaque. So we'd never really know if they adjust the automation or even assign "merit" on arbitrary personal judgements. Well, perhaps those who exploit the system could compile enough metadata to figure out how it all works, though it seems unlikely they'd ever admit their methodology or their findings.
