Self up-reping?

[Saggaris]

Heya... any Moderators!

in the past few months I have noticed that seemingly some members have been able to presumably up-rep their posts in the comments of the Mods section. now while I don't pretend to understand how or what good it will serve it is a little worrying to think someone has hacked the site or been able to use multiple profiles to influence a statistic. an example might be a relatively generic and mundane comment having 15 thumbs up while similar are not recognised whether posted before of after.

(http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/10763) latest page of comments is a prime example.... (I had cause to search a few pages back while searching for an answer to a problem I'm having with the mod)

I don't know if the report is of any interest to you or not (I never was a milk monitor) just FYI.

 

As ever Pete.

Edited September 26, 2012 by Saggaris

[Deleted2547005User]

A mod author can't up rep his own posts, but others can. A mod authors post CAN'T be down repped by anyone. Some people have stooped to that level of using multi-accounts to up rep themselves, but by design an author can't up rep himself.

[Saggaris]

Yeah... I wasn't on about the mod Author (in the highlighted case DarN) I was talking about the posters of comments themselves... this must have an influence on readership of the comments when there are so many posts on so many pages of a popular mod, one begins to use the 'thumb-up' as a guide to the validity of a comment, thereby potentially dismissing others without the 'lil' green thumb'... so, something to aid us in finding a relevant post may actually be hindering us because of this abuse!

[Deleted2547005User]

People can't up rep their own posts either. Nor down rep. It is a community thing that gives people the green thumb. In the end it doesn't matter. In a little while, the rep system is being trashed (removed) so repping will no longer factor into anything.

[Saggaris]

Yeah....I understand that people can't rep-up themselves and the community does it... IF it's working right but Clearly this is not the case.

You hit the right note with your third of four points in your first post here... MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS, (either that of Nexus is open to Hacking) I and many others have neither the time nor the inclination to read through a thousand posts to see if there is a solution to our problem... assuming we have a problem, thus the green thumb comes in handy to separate the wheat from the chaff for a viable answer. That was my point... nothing to do with how one can or cannot do this that or the other, when Clearly Some members ARE self repping.

 

However as you have stated I've wasted my time bringing this to the attention of anyone who may care!

[BlackRampage]

Clearly Some members ARE self repping.

Assumptions.

[Saggaris]

Yes... Subjective but fair assumptions... your point being?

[BlackRampage]

Merely pointing out that one should be careful to accuse others of multi-account abuse when it's based on nothing but assumptions.

[DrakeTheDragon]

It will be non-existant in a while. All red and green will be gone.

There's no point in getting into a fight over it now, which both sides will regret once they broke the first site rules.

 

It's happening for quite a while now, likely earlier even than Skyrim's release, but much more prominent after.

 

It isn't exactly multi-account abuse though. Most times when it gets really evident, it's a whole group of disturbers and troublemakers behind it, down-repping every single post of a certain member for no cause, up-repping every non-sensical or against-the-author's-wishes request post. Most people are mistaking this self-moderation feature the only purpose of which is to get rid of disturbing posts without moderator interaction (always was pretty pointless and of no real use in this regard, but it's there) for an anonymous "I agree" or "I disagree" button, so it's of course of no real meaning now.

 

But I fail to see anything even remotely coming close to what I witnessed in the past in this regard anywhere in the comments of the mod you linked.

 

I've seen an increase in the "why is it not compatible to NMM?" complaints as of late, if that's what you were aiming at, but people all too easily forget that a) the NMM is still in beta, and b) most mods available for download were created when there still was no NMM and their authors are not unlikely already gone and can't change their folder structures anymore now. They can either install the mod the way it is now, or not. Complaining is of no use.