[ SECRET POST #3143 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3143 ⌋

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Comments

[cloudtrader]

Some people inflate your kudos. I wanted to read some Stargate SG-1 stuff awhile back and sorted by kudos and the first story was incredibly mediocre... I looked at the kudos count and it has several thousand "anonymous" kudos, which tells me that the author was inflating the hits to get views.

[(Anonymous)]

One of the Stargate fandoms (can't remember which one, don't want to look it up) has the single most blatant case of this

[cloudtrader]

Actually, I just looked this up, and it was Stargate Atlantis, but someone from the AO3 posted about it being a glitch due to a bot attack, not kudos inflation.

Still, I do think people do this.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's the one that I was thinking of as well.

It's still really funny - I don't remember the exact numbers, but there's a fairly small number of fics that are stratospheric in terms of hits and kudos, and most of them are, like, Sterek kidfic and shit like that, and then you have this one random SGA fic. It's great.

[(Anonymous)]

You can't kudo anonymously from the same IP address, so unless the authos is doing something skeevy with proxies, it's got to be something else going on.

[(Anonymous)]

My home IP is not fixed - I just reboot the router - is that not common?

[(Anonymous)]

On mine, if I want to change my IP, I have to leave everything unplugged for 24 hours. And while I have no desire to cheat on counters anyway, I'd certainly have no desire to do at the expense of a day's worth of Internet.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT Wow, right, yeah. I never considered this question before, but my ISP sure does make it easy to play the system. Makes it easier to read "limited view" Google Books. Never tried to fake hits, I wonder if there's a limited pool of IPs or a limit on changes in a day.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I have been able to give more than one kudos anonymously on the same work on my laptop by switching wifi networks, and I noticed that if I gave a kudos anonymously on my laptop, our home computer (using the same internet connection) said I had already given kudos, even though I had never even looked at the fic on that computer before, and had forgotten that I had given kudos on the other computer altogether until the message showed up.

Not sure how that exactly ties in to IP addresses, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Your IP identifies your connection, not your individual machine. Switching wifi networks gives you a different IP because you're using a different connection. Switching machines on a home network doesn't.

[(Anonymous)]

The majority of my kudos are anonymous, and I'm pretty sure no one's inflating them - I'm just not that popular!

I wish they were signed-in kudos, though. Partly because I'd really love to know who in the world is reading my old fics (I haven't a clue)... but mostly because I'm worried people will think they're fake :-(