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NEW: Protection agains rating fraud

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andreas Joined: May 02 Points: 8313 Posts: 809 Posted: 2006-01-04 15:38:00    Hello everybody, in order to protect your pictures from rating fraud there is a new protection system installed. Downgrading, or upgrading is now within reasonable limits. This makes it pretty time consumpting to fully downgrade pictures of other members. People who are trying to trick the system, will need loads of time to see results plus they will be identified more easily. Best regards, Andy Reply    Reply with quote    Contact andreas   davidx Premium account Joined: Dec 04 Points: 34719 Posts: 440 Posted: 2006-01-04 18:18:00    Great, Andy Not only should it protect against spite ratings but it should protect people accused of having ghosts if members know you will be exorcising any ghosts that attract your notice. --- Grieve not for that which you cannot do but rejoice in that which you can. Reply    Reply with quote    Contact davidx   rangutan Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 34752 Posts: 1044 Posted: 2006-01-04 18:18:00    Perfect Andy! This is going to help a lot. I tried it out with random pictures and twice got a message below the picture when rating more than two stars above the average i.e. when trying to rate a * star picture **** ERROR: "Our System has detected a possible fraud upgrading of this picture. Upgrading describes the process of rating a picture far lower, than a fair valuation of it would allow. Please reconsider your choice and be fair while rating on GLOBO. Thank you." Even if some pictures, specially those only rated once, do not have a justified rating, atleast the rating will take a trend towards its real value. The pictures I tested this were: www.globosapiens.net/raffish76/picture-railwaystation-9981.html www.globosapiens.net/raffish76/picture-lahore-highcourt-9986.html www.globosapiens.net/britman/picture-karen-hill-tribe-children--dogs-8298.html www.globosapiens.net/fieryfox/picture-langkawi---monkeys-in-the-wild-11391.html Please rate these also, they didn't diserve */** RRudi --- Rudolf "Rangutan" Graspointner Reply    Reply with quote    Contact rangutan   horourke Premium account Joined: Sep 04 Points: 11274 Posts: 142 Posted: 2006-01-04 19:32:00    Thank you very much It is good to know that the changes made to my pictures last week cannot be easily repeated Hugh --- Hugh Reply    Reply with quote    Contact horourke   davidx Premium account Joined: Dec 04 Points: 34719 Posts: 440 Posted: 2006-01-04 20:06:00    Sorry, Andy, but on reading Rudi’s message I see that there is a major mistake in your error message. Since the message should be seen by those who choose to grade on very strange criteria, we must suspect they would love any mistake. The ERROR message reads [in part] ‘Upgrading describes the process of rating a picture far lower, than a fair valuation of it would allow.’ It should say the opposite; i.e. ‘Upgrading describes the process of rating a picture far higher than a fair valuation of it would allow.’ It’s downgrading that ‘describes the process of rating a picture far lower, than a fair valuation of it would allow.’ David --- Grieve not for that which you cannot do but rejoice in that which you can. Reply    Reply with quote    Contact davidx   mortimer Premium account Joined: Jun 04 Points: 15075 Posts: 528 Posted: 2006-01-04 21:53:00    Great News Staff! What I like the most is the comment possibility, truly an achievement! I hope that now the ratings will be more accurate. Thank you for your hard work martin --- Today is the first day of the rest of your life, enjoy it! Reply    Reply with quote    Contact mortimer   rangutan Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 34752 Posts: 1044 Posted: 2006-01-05 01:19:00    Thank you very much David for reading the error [above] properly, I didn't. It is too direct and not even correct, most unsuitable. How about something like: "Our System has detected a possible error in the rating of this picture. Your rating was *** off the current average rating of other members so cannot be recorded. Please try again or contact the member directly. Otherwise, we are sure a true average for the item will develope over time. For more information please see F.A.Q. Thank you. Other ideas? Members please help! RR [ This Message was edited by: rangutan on 2006-01-05 01:21 ] --- Rudolf "Rangutan" Graspointner Reply    Reply with quote    Contact rangutan   ravinderkumarsi Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 14003 Posts: 451 Posted: 2006-01-05 05:14:00    thats a great news and hope it will satisfy many members ravi --- at bangalore /back 2 globo after a long Reply    Reply with quote    Contact ravinderkumarsi   bear495 Joined: May 03 Points: 8634 Posts: 177 Posted: 2006-01-05 20:05:00    Thanks, David. Actually, both aspects of the message are needed. Rudi, was this a message that you encountered or only a suggestion? Russ --- "Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." Alexander Solzhenitsyn Reply    Reply with quote    Contact bear495   davidx Premium account Joined: Dec 04 Points: 34719 Posts: 440 Posted: 2006-01-05 20:30:00    I've done a bit of investigation like Rudi did and the message that comes up in the case of an attempted undergrading is OK - it's only the overgrading one that's wrong. However I do like Rudi's suggestion that would cover both - except for the e at the end of develop. [Quiet admission - It was only in the year leading up to my degree that I realised 'develope' was wrong.] David --- Grieve not for that which you cannot do but rejoice in that which you can. Reply    Reply with quote    Contact davidx   Page: 1 2 3