List manipulation?

It appears that a few of the accounts I reported have been sent to a better place, so something must be happening. Good news. 

Epignosis wrote: Evolver wrote: toroddfuglesteg wrote: I cannot help noticing the outbreak of justice and quality on the top 2010 list. Is there a God after all ?   No. Want to start a thread to discuss it?

Evolver wrote: toroddfuglesteg wrote: I cannot help noticing the outbreak of justice and quality on the top 2010 list. Is there a God after all ?   No.

Yes, there is a God. The Tempio Delle Clessidre album is # 1 and the bishops and priests around the globe is currently frantic re-writing their sermons for this week. As the one who wrote the first review and named this album as a coming classic, my name will also very humbly be mentioned from all the pulpits from Vladivostok to Los Angeles, but that's beyond the point here. There is an outbreak of quality and justice here and that's all that matters.  

That's because I am helping young ladies crossing the road and your are not, Alex. 

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

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?

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. 

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 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: 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.