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Download amount cheating

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 5:21 pm
by SammieVL
Seems like you can get views/downloads on stuff on the forum by just spamclicking the hyperlink to the attachment page... :rolleyes:

http://forum.generally-racers.com/viewt ... 162#p77162

Look what i did to the download amount... 70 downloads.

(If there's some way to reset the download ammount, then PLEASE reset it ;) )

Re: I just found this... er... yeah...

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 5:32 pm
by TuomoH
Then why did you click it that many times? :doh: :P

Just delete the attachment and upload it again to reset the count. ;)

Re: I just found this... er... yeah...

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 5:34 pm
by SammieVL
TuomoH wrote:Then why did you click it that many times? :doh: :P

Just delete the attachment and upload it again to reset the count. ;)
I did to see if it would actually get more downloads... It did.

I deleted and reuploaded it ;)
(and clicked it three times to reset to the actual amount of downloads :misch: )

Re: I just found this... er... yeah...

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 8:07 pm
by Lukeno94
Why is this a problem? How is this thread title helpful to anyone?

Re: I just found this... er... yeah...

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 8:17 pm
by SammieVL
Lukeno94 wrote:Why is this a problem? How is this thread title helpful to anyone?
Since people can just cheat their downloads. I mean, like, they could say like "OMG LOOK AT HOW MUCH DOWNLOADS I HAVE!!!!".

It seems like a small bug that needs a small fix...

Re: I just found this... er... yeah...

Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 8:27 pm
by XYY
I guess Luke refers to the title I just found this... er... yeah... which won't help anyone to find your topic. Apart from that, I don't really think anyone's interested in "cheating" downloads :doh:

In this case success isn't as much measured by the number of downloads, but by the number of ToM/CoM votes... :shhh: