They have 0 checks in place for email legitimacy, I was able to vote with a 10minutemail.com account, the most known service for temporary mail accounts. Recaptcha can also be circumvented, but that costs a fee per captcha I believe. So how about we start a fundition campaign to fund our own botnet that upvotes Steem on Netcoins? :D
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That doesn't mean they aren't doing it in the background or that they won't do it after the contest ends. I trust that they are not completely incompetent in this department and that they will find out about the votes by VERGE and PAC that are fake and disqualify them.
Hahaha we don't need to :D Imo, by cheating they are shooting themselves in the foot and it won't do them any good in the race we are slowly but surely outpacing them in
I don't ;) I mean, c'mon, who starts any vote that matters online without at least a basic protecting in form of a captcha? I automated stuff like this using a mouse recording program when I was 12..
Oh, and they are not even using HTTPS on their voting site..
They won't disqualify them, it could be not the team but an individual trader speculating on a price jump in case of a listing. They might disqualify individual votes from the same IP/domain range however, but I doubt it
We will see how it turns out in the end. I was in a couple of contests where they left people to scam it out but disqualified more than 60% of them when it ended. Who knows. I find it hard to believe they couldbe so unprofessional about it.
I hope they do, but if someone actually used a botnet instead of a simple script, filtering out abuse votes is almost impossible. And even if they managed to do that, it still doesn't excuse using http - no login credentials are sent, but I am not willing to take the risk of exposing my email address to the whole network by entering it on a website that does not support SSL. This is so unprofessional, I wouldn't trust an exchange like that with my Steem.
they will. How many? No one can say for sure. We can just hope they get the most of them.
Seems like they did not ;)
what do you mean?