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#2 2012-06-18 01:00:58
- TorbyFork234
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Re: Is it OK if...
jvvg wrote:
Is it OK if I write a little PHP script that can get the actual post count of a user by using an automated search script?
Why not?
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#3 2012-06-18 01:01:28
Re: Is it OK if...
TorbyFork234 wrote:
jvvg wrote:
Is it OK if I write a little PHP script that can get the actual post count of a user by using an automated search script?
Why not?
Because the Scratch team decided to hide the post counts, and show the levels thingy instead.
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#4 2012-06-18 01:11:43
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Re: Is it OK if...
jvvg wrote:
TorbyFork234 wrote:
jvvg wrote:
Is it OK if I write a little PHP script that can get the actual post count of a user by using an automated search script?
Why not?
Because the Scratch team decided to hide the post counts, and show the levels thingy instead.
The scratch team decided to block img tags before and someone freely created an antidote script and the ST were ok with it.
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#5 2012-06-18 01:41:14
Re: Is it OK if...
TorbyFork234 wrote:
jvvg wrote:
TorbyFork234 wrote:
Why not?Because the Scratch team decided to hide the post counts, and show the levels thingy instead.
The scratch team decided to block img tags before and someone freely created an antidote script and the ST were ok with it.
Good point. Hopefully someone on the ST will give me a definitive answer.
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#6 2012-06-18 05:44:13
- jji7skyline
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Re: Is it OK if...
There was a really long topic about something similar to this a while back.
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#7 2012-06-18 07:12:58
- Zeusking19
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Re: Is it OK if...
Couldnt you just go to Profile and check your post count?
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#8 2012-06-18 09:55:59
- northmeister
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Re: Is it OK if...
Zeusking19 wrote:
Couldnt you just go to Profile and check your post count?
I think he means other users.
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#10 2012-06-18 14:17:38
Re: Is it OK if...
jvvg wrote:
northmeister wrote:
Zeusking19 wrote:
Couldnt you just go to Profile and check your post count?
I think he means other users.
I do.
Unless, of course, you wrote an XSS injection-based crawler that would be put into a signature that would retrieve the post count and query a database. I shouldn't have mentioned that...
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#11 2012-06-18 14:31:29
Re: Is it OK if...
bobbybee wrote:
jvvg wrote:
northmeister wrote:
I think he means other users.I do.
Unless, of course, you wrote an XSS injection-based crawler that would be put into a signature that would retrieve the post count and query a database. I shouldn't have mentioned that...
Hold on, my brain just crashed... 
Mine would be a simple XSS search bot (it would search and then see how many results there were).
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#12 2012-06-18 14:35:39
Re: Is it OK if...
Well, yeah. Yours would be the (semi-)allowed way, mine would require the user's browser to browse pages without the user knowing (through XSS injection)
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#13 2012-06-18 14:37:20
Re: Is it OK if...
bobbybee wrote:
Well, yeah. Yours would be the (semi-)allowed way, mine would require the user's browser to browse pages without the user knowing (through XSS injection)
Oh, mine runs it all on the server and the user does know about it.
I hope someone on the Scratch team gives me a definitive answer.
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#14 2012-06-18 14:39:23
- RedRocker227
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Re: Is it OK if...
jvvg wrote:
bobbybee wrote:
jvvg wrote:
I do.
Unless, of course, you wrote an XSS injection-based crawler that would be put into a signature that would retrieve the post count and query a database. I shouldn't have mentioned that...
Hold on, my brain just crashed...
Mine would be a simple XSS search bot (it would search and then see how many results there were).
That wouldn't include deleted posts though (or would it?).
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#15 2012-06-18 14:44:56
Re: Is it OK if...
RedRocker227 wrote:
jvvg wrote:
bobbybee wrote:
Unless, of course, you wrote an XSS injection-based crawler that would be put into a signature that would retrieve the post count and query a database. I shouldn't have mentioned that...Hold on, my brain just crashed...
Mine would be a simple XSS search bot (it would search and then see how many results there were).That wouldn't include deleted posts though (or would it?).
It wouldn't, sadly. I can't get the actual post count without the password.
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#16 2012-06-18 16:22:41
- chanmanpartyman
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Re: Is it OK if...
RedRocker227 wrote:
jvvg wrote:
bobbybee wrote:
Unless, of course, you wrote an XSS injection-based crawler that would be put into a signature that would retrieve the post count and query a database. I shouldn't have mentioned that...Hold on, my brain just crashed...
Mine would be a simple XSS search bot (it would search and then see how many results there were).That wouldn't include deleted posts though (or would it?).
That's what a lot of people have been doing to bump up their post counts 
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#17 2012-06-19 00:20:37
Re: Is it OK if...
chanmanpartyman wrote:
RedRocker227 wrote:
jvvg wrote:
Hold on, my brain just crashed...
Mine would be a simple XSS search bot (it would search and then see how many results there were).That wouldn't include deleted posts though (or would it?).
That's what a lot of people have been doing to bump up their post counts
Well, this would see right through it.
There's no way to see the "real" post count without the password, though.
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