| Retriever II |
Addressing abuse
Jul 4 2006, 11:29 PM
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The site has only been up for a short while, and it hasn't taken long for a few users to try abusing the new system. Abuse, such as repeatedly downloading submissions (hammering) to boost their ranking, is strictly prohibitted. Anyone caught doing this will lose their account and be IP banned at the site-level. Additionally, users whose actions are deemed malicious will be banned at the firewall level, and will lose access to any sites hosted under this server. |
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Xgoff Jul 5 2006, 2:04 AM |
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Serves them right >:(
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123James Jul 5 2006, 2:34 AM |
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Wait, we have a ranking system based on our number of downloads?
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Retriever II Jul 5 2006, 2:46 AM |
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It's one of the available sorting methods.
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Pucifur Jul 5 2006, 2:59 AM |
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I only download a file more than once if my internet jams, which happens quite a bit. I never abuse the downloads though.
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Retriever II Jul 5 2006, 3:18 AM |
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You're comparing 2-3 against 7000
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Xgoff Jul 5 2006, 3:36 AM |
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Would there be a way to make it only record downloads/views once per person per game
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DJ Yoshiman Jul 5 2006, 4:25 AM |
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What about those who frequently abuse the download system that aren't registered with the site?
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Nytro Jul 5 2006, 4:49 AM |
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? rapid downloading here to :(? thats what killed my site (freewebs) :(
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Retriever II Jul 5 2006, 4:53 AM |
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Yoshiman: They can still be banned.
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Xgoff Jul 5 2006, 6:03 AM |
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I wonder if that 7000+ downloads game is partially the reason for the huge bandwidth spike, due to it being 4MB
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Retriever II Jul 5 2006, 6:18 AM |
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Given the latest stats I don't think the downloads actually got completed. However it creates sustained load on the server and skews the database.
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gamester Jul 5 2006, 1:36 PM |
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I'm the maker of that game. And I'm going to say that I had nothing to do with whatever was going on.
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adan Jul 6 2006, 2:45 AM |
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So i can't download a file more than once? Wht if mt computer dies 10% through and i re-download it?
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ShadowMan Jul 6 2006, 2:47 AM |
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You can still download a file more than once. This is only for grossly huge download amounts (say, downloading a game 150 times in a row).
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Iceman3k Jul 6 2006, 10:27 AM |
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Why would anyone download a game 100 times? =/
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gorsal Jul 6 2006, 1:12 PM |
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I can't post my sprites. Why?? When I click the Submit File, appears The Submission form, but when I click in that button to choose the submission type, it does nothing!! All that I can choose is a -!!! It happens to prevent downloadin my sprites more than 100 times?? Ah, when I click in my "Preferences" or "My Submissions", appears a white window saying that a fatal error ocurred. What I wave to do to put my sprites on it!?!?!
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Retriever II Jul 6 2006, 1:34 PM |
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sorry, that should be fixed.
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gorsal Jul 6 2006, 2:01 PM |
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Ahh, now I can put my sprites. Thanks Retriever!
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Com Jul 13 2006, 1:03 AM |
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Funny how people just, uh, well, cheat. Infact you shouldn't be allowed to download your own games at all.
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MarioFan1 Jun 15 2007, 4:20 AM |
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The only problem I see with this new setup is (and I'm not trying to spark an argument here) if a hacker decides to make trouble for you by hacking your account and downloading the same thing 1000 times, how does the real user get back?
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