Its not a big problem but someusers have many unused accounts that 'love' their own work. it is difficult to tell who is doing this but a good example is 'davidchen' who has many people feeling he has more than one account and is useing them to increase his views.
it can just be a bit annoying seeing someone get to the front page from cheating while others have the respect to not do this.
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Yes I agree with bigB. I think you should limit the accounts per IP address and maybe only allow love its to be accepted if they have verified their e-mail address.
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I suspected this was happening, so it's good to see others have the same idea.
Also, I've come across comments being added which contain maybe a single full stop (mira is one who did this). What's this for - to raise their profile as comment-makers or just to try to hit a total number of comments? Absolutely pointless.
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loveits per IP address may be a problem for school sites, where there may genuinely be dozens of kids using the same machine
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Perhaps you could create a time limit before that IP loveits another project. For example, you could have it so you could only loveit from the same IP every x minutes. This however, would cause problems for users who frequently loveit different projects, so it would be best to keep it so that different users sharing an IP could would have to wait x minutes before they could begin marking loveits. I don't really think that what I said was very clear, so think of this:
User 1 makes a y amount of loveits.
User 2 gets a message saying that they can't make any loveits until x minutes have passed since the last user with the IP made a loveit.
In many cases however, IP does not mean a thing. Many people use proxies to avoid IP bans and such.
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This is a serious issue, and the Scratch team has been considering ways of discouraging people from cheating the rating system. IP addresses help to identify when bogus accounts are being made, but blocking them does not help for the reasons Kevin mentioned.
What do you think of a grace period for new user accounts or a rating system, where users must contribute to the Scratch community (adding projects, comments, etc...) over a period of time in order to earn "good standing". The more they contribute, the more their weight their "love its" have?
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interesting idea but rather than a variable rating howabout users can either love a project or not. for example until a user has made x projects and y comments they may not award loveits however once they have they can but they are all of the same value.
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