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Says they’ll do a background check. For a million bucks you bet they’ll figure it out.
by dawnerd 6y ago
Says they’ll do a background check. For a million bucks you bet they’ll figure it out.
- pmontra 6y agoI wrote the software for a competition 10 years ago. The first prize was about $5000. All the top ten entries were cheaters who spent hours clicking on Like links on social networks. The behavior was very apparent from the logs. Disqualified. Next top ten, cheaters again. One of them at least used curl :-) Disqualified. Imagine if the prize was one million.
- mysterydip 6y agohow far down the list did you have to go to find the first legit winner?
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- pmontra 6y agoThey started to show in the third iteration. People with a number of likes as if they had real friends, not bots or a carpal tunnel. Each iteration took a few days because cheating manually takes some times to get into the high thousands of likes. The lesson was that in this kind of competitions you don't test everybody for cheating. Only the winners. If the last one in the rankings cheats, who cares