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[DragonEx]

I would like to ask if it's a loophole to find out which username in here links to which account. For example, if we autoprice an item with abrosia, it will show, for example:

Improved Lightning Beam
Basic Information
Description: With a powerful burst of electrical energy, this beam can do some serious damage.
Estimated Price: 703 NP (Last Priced: 2 minutes ago by willy101) or Cancel
Rarity: 60
Restocks in: Battle Magic for approximately 461 NP (Last spotted: An hour ago)
Estimated Profit: 242 NP

Then, for example, if we set it to the lowest pricing, with ssw, we can actually find out the actual user with the price most of the times. Not hard to really pick out the username pricing it in the shop imo. If we can find out information like this, what about TNT Staff?

Suggestion: Not really sure, cause removing the forum username will only unlink our forum account from our neopets account, but it still proves our neopets account is using abrosia with all the data, ect.

Edit: SL answered my questions, for knowledge, here is what was replied:
<ShadowLink64>: and it doesn't even take what it was priced at in your shop, it takes the unmodified wiz price into consideration
<ShadowLink64>: it averages YOUR lowest price, with 8 other people's 'lowest prices'
<ShadowLink64>: performs some outlier detection on them to remove bad prices

Edited by DragonEx, 19 October 2010 - 07:45 PM.

[xavarn]

So... does this mean that the staff cant trace?

[Hydrogen]

So... does this mean that the staff cant trace?

It would be incredibly hard to do so.

[Derriere]

It would be incredibly hard to do so.

But not impossible, *cough**cough*
I don't think they'd try to hack us though lol.



...Would they?

[Boggart]

But not impossible, *cough**cough*
I don't think they'd try to hack us though lol.



...Would they?

Most of the staff don't even play neopets, and if they did, they would've hacked us simply by the programs, not using the database feature >_<

[Derriere]

Most of the staff don't even play neopets, and if they did, they would've hacked us simply by the programs, not using the database feature >_<

Really? Well I'm thankful that this site is still up and running. (:
And that's true too. Haha,

[Waser Lave]

There are much easier ways to detect cheating than trying to figure out usernames from our data.

[DragonEx]

There are much easier ways to detect cheating than trying to figure out usernames from our data.

Well, I thought we could figure one another out initially from the forum

[Waser Lave]

Well, I thought we could figure one another out initially from the forum

Nah, the prices are averaged out so much that it would be very, very, very difficult to figure out which account last priced an item just from the data we have publicly available.

[flashraven]

There are much easier ways to detect cheating than trying to figure out usernames from our data.

Well I really wish that TNT detect using this method!

Edited by flashraven, 20 October 2010 - 07:02 AM.