At 12/29/13 02:34 AM, life wrote:
Has anything been changed yet to stop rampant cheaters of old?
Hm, before the redesign I used to go on crusades to try and stop them. Even with a buttload of evidence it always ended up getting ugly so I gave up on it, and other really don't seem to care that much. With the new system and API-mods we can just take care of broken or impossible medals. Also, if you click on any medal on the website, you can see who earned it, and when. I intentionally left some medals up, even when I know you can only get them by cheating. This gives me a perfect idea who earns their medals fairly, and who doesn't. The NG top medal point users list used to exclude cheaters, but that's no longer the case for some reason. Also, if you check the official rankings, you'll probably recognize some blacklisted users of old.
The majority of users in the top 50 earn their medals fairly, so there's some good news. Also, with 2100+ medal games out there, I don't think anyone will sign up today and cheat their way to the top. Flash games will always be exploitable to a certain extent, and I don't expect the staff to actually deal with the cheating problem. This is why I decided to ignore it (with the occasional 'GODDAMNIT' out loud, when I notice something blatantly obvious), and hope they get bored of it and leave the site. Some of them are really persistent, unfortunately. The only reason I'm posting this is because the legendary Life asked about it. =P If you have any follow-up questions, please ask them through PM.