What is up with this?

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/DougBuffone/

This user somehow got nearly 5000 points on the Chrono Trigger page, and there are no visible changes made (trust me, I watch that page like a hawk. I know several users can attest to that). There are no new images uploaded, nothing. How is this possible? And also, according to the front page, this user got 12,000 points yesterday. Something is suspicious to me (I'm not accusing this user of anything, just saying it seems odd).

Did you ask him how this might have happened? If anyone were to know, it's most likely him.

As a random uninformed guess, it could be an account the mods/admin have for testing purposes

The most likely thing he did was copy the text, delete the whole page, then save it blank, then edit it and paste the article back in for points. It's a major exploit that earns a ton of points.

On second thought, I probably should not have posted it. Now it's just going to get abused more :|

"The most likely thing he did was copy the text, delete the whole page, then save it blank, then edit it and paste the article back in for points. It's a major exploit that earns a ton of points.

On second thought, I probably should not have posted it. Now it's just going to get abused more :|"

I'm not sure how the site deals with edits, but there are a few reasons I can think of for why this might have happened legitimately. One is that he made some enormous changes while someone else had their editbox opened, which would essentially revert his edits when the other person saved (assuming the person had over 1000 points). Alternatively, a person's edits could have been queued for moderation and approved after his edit, also essentially reverting his edits; this actually happened with one of my brother's edits of an article so I'm pretty sure this is possible. Either of these being possible shows a huge flaw in the system, the former having a fairly good solution already with wikis.

"http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/DougBuffone/

This user somehow got nearly 5000 points on the Chrono Trigger page, and there are no visible changes made (trust me, I watch that page like a hawk. I know several users can attest to that). There are no new images uploaded, nothing. How is this possible? And also, according to the front page, this user got 12,000 points yesterday. Something is suspicious to me (I'm not accusing this user of anything, just saying it seems odd)."

"The most likely thing he did was copy the text, delete the whole page, then save it blank, then edit it and paste the article back in for points. It's a major exploit that earns a ton of points.

On second thought, I probably should not have posted it. Now it's just going to get abused more :|"

"Did you ask him how this might have happened? If anyone were to know, it's most likely him."

"Yes, it is possible to exploit the system - not only is this against the whole spirit of the site but we do enforce a heavy "1-strike and you're out" rule against anyone doing so.

We can trace it back to you and you will be banned for it."