Timeline for Sock-puppet attack on GameDev Stack Exchange - Exploits!
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| Jun 19, 2017 at 16:33 | comment | added | Unitato says Reinstate Monica | Wouldn't an IP ban shut him up for good? | |
| Dec 18, 2013 at 14:04 | comment | added | Doorknob | "Systems recently put into place" hmmm... is there a special sock-puppet-destroying hat?! conspiracy conspiracy conspiracy :P | |
| Dec 18, 2013 at 13:35 | history | edited | user50049 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 18, 2013 at 13:32 | comment | added | ꓢPArcheon | Those are the times when you actually are grateful SharePointExchange has such a low profile. We just get spamming for replica watch and such. | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 11:57 | comment | added | Tobias Kienzler | @BoltClock Good evening then :-) Let me rephrase this: Just like in the British Empire, someone is always awake on SE | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 11:53 | comment | added | BoltClock's a Unicorn Mod | @Tobias Kienzler: Tim's actually on the same timezone as I am - UTC+8, which means it's only nearly 8 pm here. On Tuesday. | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 11:19 | comment | added | Tobias Kienzler | Good to know the StackExchange Interpol never sleeps :-7 | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:37 | comment | added | Andrew Russell | Ok, thanks Tim :) Please keep us updated :) | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:36 | comment | added | user50049 | @AndrewRussell Right now my focus is getting rid of him and keeping him out, this did raise some questions in general that I plan on asking. | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:32 | comment | added | Andrew Russell | Shouldn't it be impossible for him to get that badge at all, though? Or does the software give it to you even if your vote doesn't actually count? | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:31 | comment | added | user50049 | @AndrewRussell I did go through the list, there were 2 or 3 that were obviously this person - also gone now. Some of these accounts had been around since may, I'm not sure how many more he actually had, but it can't be too many. | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:22 | comment | added | user50049 |
@AndrewRussell who is this user you speak of? <big, fat cheshire grin>
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| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:21 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @Yannis genius! Dirty socks, of course. :) | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:19 | comment | added | Andrew Russell | Please check the Constituent badge page for GDSE and find a bunch of low-rep users - most are obviously the sock puppet guy - seemingly casting votes? Are they actual votes? I thought there was a 150-rep threshold?? | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:19 | comment | added | yannis | @ShaWizDowArd A pair of Stack Overflow socks would be more appropriate than a shirt, don't you think? | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:17 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | Can you at least send a Stack Overflow shirt to the sock puppeteer for his efforts? With the text "We won, you lose"? :D | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:17 | comment | added | Andrew Russell | Also - this user just got called out in GDSE chat - new account, single answer, rapidly upvoted - with content copied from another site. And he has a Constituent badge with only 19 rep!? | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:14 | comment | added | Andrew Russell | So - do you think this is something that requires re-thinking of how either of these two features (flagging, account recreation) work - from the point of view of their exploitability? Or is it a once-off thing and pretty-much sorted? | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:12 | comment | added | user50049 | Worth noting - the mods on the rest of the network currently active are also onto this, and they're watching closely. There's a lot of very patient people just waiting to see if they try it again. I think we've got it well in hand. | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:09 | comment | added | Andrew Russell | Marvelous. Thank you. | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:06 | history | edited | user50049 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:06 | comment | added | Travis J | +1 for vaporization! :) | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:04 | comment | added | yannis | ...and perhaps we should stop counting the association bonus for the 150 rep required to vote in an election. /shameless self-plug | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:00 | history | answered | user50049 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |