03-20-2006, 05:07 PM | #3401 |
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Well, except I don't know how 'valuable' her time is.
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03-20-2006, 05:13 PM | #3402 | |
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03-20-2006, 05:24 PM | #3403 |
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Back off track...I guess we never figured out who/how the view counter was tinkered with on the reference thread. We just got to within a thousand or so views in this thread and the reference thread jumped another 3500.
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03-20-2006, 05:27 PM | #3404 | |
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03-20-2006, 05:29 PM | #3405 | |
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The Dark Council should really look into this. The reference thread started around 55,000 when the thread started and each time this thread has gotten close, it jumped up to some ridiculous number. Someone please put a stop to this madness.
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03-20-2006, 05:31 PM | #3406 |
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The reference thread was gaining like 70 views everytime i refreshed.
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i just reloaded the page and the reference thread went from 91,568 to 92,000 and change. WTF |
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Well, I just ran a quick test and discovered that anyone immature enough to put in the effort and immature enough to care that much can greatly impact the thread view count.
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Whoever is doing it went through the trouble of logging out so they can't be discovered. What a dweeb (or dweebs).
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03-20-2006, 05:39 PM | #3410 |
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That is some rapid fire refreshing or however he/she/they are doing it.
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03-20-2006, 05:39 PM | #3411 | |
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Maybe it's a "Deewb"!! /hopes that's not too subtle
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03-20-2006, 05:39 PM | #3412 | |
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hmmm...SkyDog is trying to tell us something...dweeb rhymes with jeeb... edit: typo Last edited by DaddyTorgo : 03-20-2006 at 05:41 PM. |
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03-20-2006, 05:41 PM | #3413 |
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It would be a shame if a new version of the reference thread were to appear.
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03-20-2006, 05:41 PM | #3414 | |
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That's right dweeb or dweebs. Jeeb or Jeebs?
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03-20-2006, 05:41 PM | #3415 |
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Well, the good news is that the person or persons responsible certainly are helping our page view count, increasing our leverage with GameSpy to let us keep going wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy over the maximum usage every month. (We usually go over in the first week of every month...)
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Can't you check the IP of guests viewing the thread?
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03-20-2006, 05:44 PM | #3418 | |
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That would certainly nip the problem. |
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03-20-2006, 05:45 PM | #3420 | |
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Well, in terms of the "statistical integrity" of the page view count, I'd say that it is forever compromised. I can't say for sure, but I'm about 99.9% certain that this thread has also been artificially enhanced many times.
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03-20-2006, 05:46 PM | #3421 |
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i think it's the people from Matrix. by increasing the views on the reference thread they make all the fans of this thread want to keep checking back in to pad the view stats. the more people doing this the more "talk" and chatter is maintained over an otherwise horrible game that should have been forgotten the day after it came out.
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03-20-2006, 05:54 PM | #3422 | |
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I think it would. Constant refereshing=using up bandwidth for other people=mini DoS on the board.
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Way to go Erik, the anti-Jennifer:
At least SOMEONE over there gets it. That's a very different response from the "buy the game NOW or shut up" that J.W. is spewing forth.
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2. You're talking about a well-nigh unpoliceable policy. In order to police it, first off someone would have to notice a thread view count increasing, then go and see who is in the thread (and it doesn't really group them well). In a high-traffic thread such as this one, nothing can be done. There are 18 people viewing this thread as of this moment. What would I do...suspend all 18 of 'em?
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03-20-2006, 06:05 PM | #3425 |
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Denial of Service.. ie, they're using up bandwidth when other people are trying to log on and find it slow.
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DoS = Denial of Service. Basically, flooding a server with empty, useless requests, keeping it unnecessarily busy so that actual users can't reach it at all, or at least get slower response times. I'm guessing GameSpy wouldn't appreciate the constant, pointless refreshes, either... especially if they ever got wind of what was happening. So, while it's difficult to police, in a case such as this (with literally THOUSANDS of false views occurring), I think it's worth investigating, and taking action on... lest you piss off our hosts, and frustrate our users who have to sit through slower load times as a result of what is basically a silly read-count game. |
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My suspicion is it's Jim - he doesn't want the MF thread to overtake the FOF thread on the game's own messageboard
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If there's no log, and no way to see the IP of a current "guest" viewer, then I have no idea how to investigate further. I think if it were to become a chronic problem, it would probably set off an alert for the technicians at GameSpy to investigate, but if it hasn't done so already, it's probably not going to.
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Heh. I just got a PM. The person confessed and promised not to do it any more. Hopefully we can put this to bed.
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Can someone up my post count by 5,000 for being the first person to notice this?
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03-20-2006, 07:34 PM | #3433 | |
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Yeah... thing is, with that many views, I suspect there may be a second gunman on the grassy knoll... Or maybe I'm just suffering from acute paranoia. Might be time to get this tinfoil hat refitted. |
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Hah, no. I do remember someone stating somewhere in this thread that he had made the reference page his homepage in order to get it more hits, but I don't know if that's the same person who confessed to SD...
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03-20-2006, 07:39 PM | #3436 |
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Will this thread make it to 100 pages?
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Well, at least he is being upfront, but I am not quite sure why there is such a delay with something like this. It sounds strange that they have to discuss their refund policy with Digitial River to come to some sort of negotiation. I just thought you could just simply edit the text.
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Probably asking how many refunds were given, who was responsible for it and other such fun stuff. I don't see anything bad in it
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I see what you are saying, but they could discuss that after they fix those web pages. In other words, why are they leaving the false refund information up to be seen by future buyers?
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ProbablyProbably that they have to provide 24 hour notice for all changes to the web page?
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It has to be a contract situation. Otherwise it's beyond Mickey Mouse.
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I bet this delays the patch by at least 6 months.
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03-20-2006, 08:39 PM | #3444 |
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Sounds like the statement's gone gold.
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Wow...Erik is trying to douse every fire he can:
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1092942 http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1092997 Why do I have a feeling that 3rd party utilities may break the game?
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Wow...this just in...out of the mouth of Winter himself (sorry I havn't yet figured out the cool cut n paste thing you all do with Matrix posts
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Oh, that's rich.
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okay...actually i just noticed that thread is for a beta release of the next patch that shaggyra is testing. but still...gave me a good laugh before i figured that out
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Well that's what makes this whole process funny. Beta builds are the ones you are supposed to test out before they become official. The official patches are supposed to fix things, not introduce more problems for testing. I was so confused as I was reading that thread because he wants to make a new public beta forum to fix the errors created by his beta builds?
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at this point he ought to just call a spade a spade and say that the game itself is in public beta and kiss his customer's asses for paying for the privelege of beta testing it.
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