List manipulation?

Dean wrote: Tuzvihar wrote: Dean wrote: harmonium.ro wrote: Thanks Dean. I agree that the chances of having 44 guys from the same region on Venezuela having the same ISP with this peculiar network architecture, who were having PA accounts and were interested in the same albums are very, very low.  Quite. Generally that's not enough, but it's a good indication that I need to investigate further. Maybe it's an internet cafe which happens to be used by many progheads? Statistics and probability says: "really?"     Snow Dog wrote: ^ Thing I'll have a Progachino! Frippachino surely.

Edited by Snow Dog - January 09 2011 at 14:07

^ Thing I'll have a Progachino!

harmonium.ro wrote: Thanks Dean. I agree that the chances of having 44 guys from the same region on Venezuela having the same ISP with this peculiar network architecture, who were having PA accounts and were interested in the same albums are very, very low.

Quite. Generally that's not enough, but it's a good indication that I need to investigate further.

Thanks Dean. I agree that the chances of having 44 guys from the same region on Venezuela having the same ISP with this peculiar network architecture, who were having PA accounts and were interested in the same albums are very, very low. 

harmonium.ro wrote: I have one question about IPs, do you guys have the means to make the difference between such a pure villain and the case of that network architecture that assigned all the customers from the network the same IP? Last year I was using a mobile internet provider who had this type of network, all their customers from a whole region had the same IP. [I didn't notice this until many websites told me that I can't access their services because my IP seems to be accesing them already at that time (meaning that someone with the same IP as mine was accessing the site right then).]

Don't want to reveal too much in public, but let's just say on the global scale of things we are a small site with a limited number of visitors so statistics come into play.

I have one question about IPs, do you guys have the means to make the difference between such a pure villain and the case of that network architecture that assigned all the customers from the network the same IP? Last year I was using a mobile internet provider who had this type of network, all their customers from a whole region had the same IP. [I didn't notice this until many websites told me that I can't access their services because my IP seems to be accesing them already at that time (meaning that someone with the same IP as mine was accessing the site right then).]

harmonium.ro wrote: Thanks Dean. But I thought the word "sanction" can be used like that. The UN put sanctions on, say, Libya or North Korea, don't they?

It's one of those tricky words that can mean restrinctions imposed upon, or authoritative approval for. It means a "sacred law" where the law itself can either approve or punish. Generally if you use it to mean punishment you mean it as measures to prevent an illicit action, rather than measures as the result of an illicit action.

I don't know about Kobaia, but "Sanction" is a word much used in both IT, in the business world and in employment cases in the English speaking world. 

......but I think most people here is berating Dean & the admins for not use the ultimate type of Kobaian sanctions. 

Thanks Dean. But I thought the word "sanction" can be used like that. The UN put sanctions on, say, Libya or North Korea, don't they?

Question: is the sanction for ratings manipulation an IP ban or just a simple account suspension?