Do you see a viable reason why someone should get a gratification for casting hundreds of votes week after week on old nodes?

And we already have - for other reasons - dog-votes in place to punish too many down-votes.

My suggestion is just to reduce the 25% ratio to 0% after a frequency of x votes on y old nodes in a time-span of z days, so not really a punishment. (x,y,z is a matter of debate)

Personally ... if I thought 100 archived nodes deserved to be up-voted, I wouldn't really care about the reward.

And this exploit is only of interest for monks in the Saints region, which have too many votes for contemporary nodes. Saints shouldn't care either.

"Gelegenheit macht Diebe" ( ~ Opportunity makes a thief).

> and there is already a blanket rule against abuse.

A rule only makes sense if it can be enforced. I can think of many ways to disguise such votes as legitimate.

We only learned now about it because someone was sloppy enough to mainly upvote davido

"Wo kein Kläger, da kein Richter" ( ~ "where there's no plaintiff, there's no judge")

I think it's much easier to limit the exploit instead of implementing a surveillance apparatus to hunt down the culprits.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re^5: Notification of XP increase has gone wild (maybe) by LanX
in thread Notification of XP increase has gone wild (maybe) by davido

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