| Ok here is the list of accounts with the date that they were created and coincidentally that is also the date that they were last logged into. The 57 that were deleted on 11/20: The 54 new accounts deleted after the 1st mass deletion: The 31 other accounts that were questionable: (thanks scorpedo for pointing these out) 8 more recently deleted accounts 8 new accounts... You will notice that with most of these accounts you have identical or nearly identical manga lists which tend to give a rating of 1 to both Berserk and One Piece, while sometimes giving one or two other manga series an erroneous rating to try to make them look slightly different (usually it's a rating of 10 to some of Urasawa's manga titles or a rating of 6 to Shin Angyo Onshi). However, I think it becomes pretty obvious that they are all owned by the same person if you look at the "last online" timestamps. On each date that has multiple entries you will notice that the log out times for each account is within minutes of the other. I know this isn't the first time something like this has been done, but I've never seen it done to quite this extent. Edit - added 3 more to the list Edit 2 - 11 more accounts created today Edit 3 - 54 new accounts created tonight after the mass deletion earlier this afternoon. Edit 4 - scorpedo pointed out 31 other accounts that are questionable, they've been removed as well Edit 5 - He's slowed down, but hasn't stopped 8 new accounts listed above. These have now all been removed Edit 6 - 8 New accounts... |
8GaugeBrettNov 27, 2008 1:15 PM
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llxwarbirdxll said: What I want to know is, how did you manage to find all of them? Probably looking at everyone who rated Berserk a 1. |
llxwarbirdxll said: What I want to know is, how did you manage to find all of them? I was curious about this as well. Not like it was as obvious as this: http://myanimelist.net/profile/angel999 http://myanimelist.net/profile/darkside0999 http://myanimelist.net/profile/darkside099 http://myanimelist.net/profile/Nergal333 This reminds me of the zerosama accounts. Seriously, what the fuck is up with some people? |
 You've come a long way, baby. |
| impressive work to say the least, let's see... |
| Nice find. =] |
| That's a lot of effort to devote to hating Berserk and One Piece. |
| I'm guessing all this fuss is because having more then 1 account is against the rules right? |
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| Not really. But people using more than one account to rate and de-rate anime are losers. Same goes for claiming. |
| Wow. That's pretty sad. Why would anyone make that many accounts? I mean seriously, I can understand 2 or 3 so that they could place extra votes or claims on some clubs and stuff but 46?! Talk about a waste of time and space. |
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| Lol@Death Note image. Syb3rStrife said: Wow. That's pretty sad. Why would anyone make that many accounts? I mean seriously, I can understand 2 or 3 so that they could place extra votes or claims on some clubs and stuff but 46?! Talk about a waste of time and space. Yea, at least make it so people don't catch you. |
| 46 accounts!? Holy S*** europeanchampion? jerichoy2j? lol looks like they're a fan of wrestling. *hit's them with the European championship, then puts them in the Walls of Jericho* submit, biatch! |
ArcticNov 19, 2008 5:44 PM
llxwarbirdxll said: What I want to know is, how did you manage to find all of them? I was looking at the user statistics part of the Berserk manga entry and noticed 55 1's when the last time I had checked a few months ago it was only like 10. So I figured I'd take a peek at these 45 people who seemed hellbent on hating the series and after I looked at a few profiles an obvious pattern emerged. So I just kept looking and looking and soon enough I had 46 different accounts on my list. |
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| Methinks that person is in serious need of a life... |
| What a day! What a lovely Day! |
| I dunno. I'd like to think that these persons have good reasons for doing so. Maybe they're actually 46 siblings taking turns on a single PC. Or maybe even 46 people stuck in the same body. And every single one of them happens to hate One Piece and Berserk with the anger of a thousand burning suns. It's kinda mean to immediately suppose that a person would waste so much time out of spite when it could have simply been a coinci-BULLSHIT. |
YuunagiNov 19, 2008 10:47 PM
| Well, it certainly worked. Berserk dropped from #1 to #5. |
ZinnKid said: Well, it certainly worked. Berserk dropped from #1 to #5. Yeah, when I signed up here, in early August, Berserk was first among manga by a mile. Now it's down to 6th. With only 2744 votes, those 46 1 votes (about 8 below average its score in early August of 9.03), drop Berserk's rating 384/2744, or about 0.15 points. Right now, it's rating is down to 8.90, a decrease of 0.13 points. So yeah, thanks to all those accounts, they did manage to give Berserk a lower ranking. It wouldn't work as well for a really huge anime, since they usually have way more members, but it's very effective for manga. |
| well it's dropped even further since yesterday because 11 MORE accounts were created by this loser just a few hours ago. |
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| Hope this is taken care of somehow. I hate to see Berserk and One Piece get dragged down like that. |
| ban the asshole |
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kei-clone said: impressive work to say the least, let's see... Yea. Now if this person could channel it into something productive. |
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itsmee said: ban the asshole That's probably impossible - I've seen a few psychos like this one before => They have dynamic IP or they use proxy, so IP ban is pointless. Normal ban as well - he(or she) will create more accounts. The only way to deal with such idiots is to put some restrictions on the website. For example: You can rate series on your anime or manga lists, but the rating system won't read your rates unless you have over 50 or 100 posts and you registered at least one month ago. |
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| this is quite upsetting that someone is going through all this energy just to push a few manga back and a bunch of manga forward.. -_- i plead just like the ones before me, can something PLEASE be done about this? i mean, it looks like in one month he could create nearly 100 accounts..think of how incredibly skewed the scores would be then x.x |
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| All accounts mentioned have been removed. Thanks for taking the time to point this out. |
| Thank you Mr Xinil! I'll keep you up to date if i catch any more of this happening. |
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| And Berserk is back at number 1 with a 9.07 average... |
| Heh, I don't have enough patience to do this to my most hated series. And trust me, I would love to see Bleach go down in the rankings. Nice find 8Gauge. Happy to see Berserk back where it belongs. |
Xinil said: All accounts mentioned have been removed. Thanks for taking the time to point this out. Thanks! ^^ I hae ppl who do things like that. I can see a person creating 1 or 2 acounts but 57? man he does need a life! |
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| There should be a club or a new staff position made with the sole purpose of searching for dupe accounts that are being used for cheating the system. |
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DeathfireD said: There should be a club or a new staff position made with the sole purpose of searching for dupe accounts that are being used for cheating the system. I so totally agree with this idea ^_^. |
DeathfireD said: There should be a club or a new staff position made with the sole purpose of searching for dupe accounts that are being used for cheating the system. The Witch Hunt club! Seriously though, I wonder s/he will stop after this. |
| somebody's in the process of doing it at this moment :\ (I see about 15 done today so far) |
naikou said: This will probably just make the person want to make even more accounts. DeathfireD said: There should be a club or a new staff position made with the sole purpose of searching for dupe accounts that are being used for cheating the system. The Witch Hunt club! Seriously though, I wonder s/he will stop after this. |
Sirdam said: naikou said: This will probably just make the person want to make even more accounts. DeathfireD said: There should be a club or a new staff position made with the sole purpose of searching for dupe accounts that are being used for cheating the system. The Witch Hunt club! Seriously though, I wonder s/he will stop after this. Yep. I agree. A quick search reveals that this person is probably "one of them". http://myanimelist.net/mangalist/armaddon Er...wtf? >__< Seems like the recent updates of Berserk is flooded with trolls... |
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| Here's a bunch of 'em: |
scorpedoNov 21, 2008 12:36 AM
ShaolinRibiero said: not its down to 9.01 D:And Berserk is back at number 1 with a 9.07 average... |
| lol |
| Yes, he's doing it right now. He just created 20 accounts. |
| Jesus Christ, Berserk is now in the 3rd position with 9.00... |
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| Jesus... wtf is wrong with this guy. |
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8GaugeBrett said: Jesus... wtf is wrong with this guy. He/she obviously is really really obsessed with bringing down his/her hated series. He/she also probably live in his/her mother's basement. |
KidRyanNov 20, 2008 9:31 PM
| You guys fail to mention that this person just loves his DeathNote ;) |
Aarana said: You guys fail to mention that this person just loves his DeathNote ;) Hmm, I wonder if it would be possible to legally marry a death note.....*scratches chin* |
llxwarbirdxll said: Isn't there an app out there that blocks tor and open proxies? block sites will revive at my school Dx EDIT: Berserk at 8.99. |
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Baby_Naruto said: 8GaugeBrett said: Jesus... wtf is wrong with this guy. He/she obviously is really really obsessed with bringing down his/her hated series. He/she also probably live in his/her mother's basement. Hmm, this is one of the reason why MAL's scoring systems isn't as accurate as we would like it to be. I suppose that the anime top list contain some troll accounts updates too. :| |
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Kizuna said: Hmm, this is one of the reason why MAL's scoring systems isn't as accurate as we would like it to be. I suppose that the anime top list contain some troll accounts updates too. :| gosh. taking for stealing my real identity. I'm the user that rates everything a ten, that the scores will never be accurate. Even people went to my profile and said "WtF do you rate everything a ten?!?" no wonder my average score for mangas is 9.9 |
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