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One benefit of not having vanilla registration is that you're more or less going to have all unique users. One could imagine gaming the system using multiple ac
by fudged71 14y ago
One benefit of not having vanilla registration is that you're more or less going to have all unique users. One could imagine gaming the system using multiple accounts.
- CanSpice 14y agoAssuming people don't have multiple Twitter accounts.
- thehodge 14y agoor they login via twitter then refer the facebook account.. not that I've seen that happen already.
- petsos 14y agoHaving 2 or 3 twitter accounts is not a big deal for his site. Creating 10000 vanilla accounts would be. Adding that kind of anti-spam methods is a lot of work and not easy to get right.
- Zenst 14y agoIP throtterling. now if they create the accounts on unique IP's then you have somebody who is overly dedicated. It is when the reward is less than the effort to cheat that you have a workable system of protection. Beyond that there is no golden solution without costly verification process's.
- corwinstephen 14y agoPrecisely. I'm not entirely sure how deep your site goes, but assuming it's like the actual stock market, one could potentially game the system by creating two separate accounts and making a series of investments with one, and by shorting those exact same investments on the other; One of the accounts is guaranteed to go up.
- alexirobbins 14y agobut the other goes down by the same amount... right?
- corwinstephen 14y agoCorrect, but the idea is that you'd just throw away the account that goes down.
- Zenst 14y agoTwitter and facebook accounts are about as unique as an email address, any gaming of the system is just as easy.