Questions tagged [gaming-the-system]
For questions about undesirable behavior aimed at getting undeserved reputation or badges.
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How can I cheat the reputation system?
I have been a full stack web developer and have been using computers for most of my life.
I use these Stack Exchange websites a lot, to get answers, as they say, and indeed they are right!
I get ...
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Possible loophole in system found by eccentric user behaviour
Not long ago here on main meta, a user posted a question, a rudimentary one which attracted a downvote almost immediately. Their response was almost as quick; they deleted their account.
Subsequently, ...
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Is there a way to find out if I've ever both voted to close a question and posted an answer to it?
I just noticed that someone voted to close a question and posted an excellent answer at the same time. I wanted to tell them that I thought it was unfair to do both with an argument involving ...
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Will asking a really good question get you more chances to ask more questions? [duplicate]
Why am II still getting this warning after coming back from a suspension?
Should I get a fresh start? Is this probation temporary?
Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-received, and ...
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Is there anyone who has 0 questions but lots of answers? Why? [duplicate]
Why do some users have many many answers but no questions of their own? How does that benefit them? Can it prevent suspensions?
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Is this user using some type of automated tool to visit sites in order to acquire "Fanatic" gold badges?
I reviewed this question just now, accepting a suggested edit. I noticed that the user had no reputation (just the 100 bonus), and yet, had a gold badge.
I thought, as I have seen many times, that ...
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Trolling by accepting answer
If I accepted answer in 100 of my questions in one day (reaching 200 rep in one day), then un-accept them all the other day, then accept them again - If I did that 50 times, would that make me Epic (...
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Is the auto-conversion of some answers to comments a bug that can be used to comment?
When I had very little reputation on Stack Overflow and I wanted to comment a clarification to somebody else's answer, I wrote a bad quality "answer" that had my comment in it, which would then be ...
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a work around to ask a question even if you are blocked from doing so!
I learned from this question that when user account Y is merged into an old user account X of the same user, the system will update posts of user Y with the user ID X.
Now, considering the scenario ...
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I've deleted post, to receive badge then undeleted it [duplicate]
I have one post with 3 downvote and to receive Peer Pressure badge I've deleted it, but after I've got what I wanted, I've restored it.
Is this legal?
Can I use this technique in the future?
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About "Rep changes" and gaming system using them
Ever seen this post? Read it carefully, if you didn't. Mysticial's explanation is great.
To summarize the problem:
You register, start with 1 rep.
You posted an answer that was up voted 10 times, so ...
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Reputation Farm Capacity [closed]
How much rep could a rep farm farm if a rep farm could farm rep?
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What do to with ultra-sophisticated voting ring?
EDIT 3 Added a picture as a "proof" of what's going on (which may help other users catch such "advanced" voting rings):
In a twisted and weird way, now that my question has gotten 20+ upvotes here on ...
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Is there an easy way to get 15 stack overflow points? [duplicate]
I need to start up-voting some of the brilliant answers I see on this site. Is there an easy way to get 15 reputation points so I can start doing that ASAP? I don't mind putting in the work to do this,...
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Can I game the Legendary badge with self-awarded bounties?
I just set a bounty on one of my questions, where I have the only answer so far. If nobody else answers, or if nobody else gives a deserving answer, I will award myself the bounty and get +150 rep ...
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