Timeline for How did someone get "Publicist" with 27 views?
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| May 20, 2012 at 2:22 | comment | added | Double AA | The first one here stackoverflow.com/badges/262/publicist?userid=47322 | |
| May 2, 2012 at 1:50 | comment | added | Nick Craver Mod | @Mysticial we're aware, and will be changing how this works. Don't worry, ill-begotten badges will not stick around (definitely feel free to keep reporting them here though). | |
| May 2, 2012 at 0:49 | comment | added | Mysticial | And yet another from the same person. Publicist with 80 views. | |
| May 1, 2012 at 5:11 | comment | added | Mysticial | And another one from the same person. Publicist with 202 views. | |
| Apr 24, 2012 at 16:00 | comment | added | Mysticial | Here's another one: stackoverflow.com/questions/5578845/… Publicist with 314 views. | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 19:37 | comment | added | Adam Rackis | @lunboks - smart - that gives me an idea.... | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 19:32 | comment | added | a cat | @AdamRackis You don't know how much time he spent, though. If he already had a 1000-strong botnet handy, all he would have had to do is deploy a payload to fetch a single URL. Hell, maybe I'm on an entirely wrong level of maliciousness and he just put the link into his signature as an image somewhere. That'd take just about a couple seconds. | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 19:27 | comment | added | Adam Rackis | Am I the only one shocked that someone would spend this much time to (fraudulently) get a badge? | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 19:27 | comment | added | Mysticial | *I meant the view/ip counter for the badge. But yeah, I get your point. :) | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 19:25 | comment | added | Nick Craver Mod | @Mysticial - the question wasn't viewed 1,000 times, so the error wasn't in the view count, it was in the badge...and we're looking at possible changes there. | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 19:22 | comment | added | Mysticial | Is there going to be any change in the algorithm that counts views? Or is it safe to assume that this is rare enough to handle case-by-case when they happen? | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 19:21 | comment | added | a cat | totally called it | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 19:17 | history | answered | Nick CraverMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |