sebastian_ua
04-29-2010, 07:04 AM
Many of you already know that Nokia started the contest to win 12 N8 and tickets to London. you could submit an idea for app in 4 categories and finally after some blahblah 12 persons would be the winners.
links are
http://n8makemyapp.com/
http://217.149.58.248/campaign
It started on Monday and became stupid and weird. The contest system has crazy stupid and trivial bug. It allows one person to vote million times. 2 cases:
1.
a) Open 1000 browsers before you vote for an app idea.
b) Click vote in each one by one
2.
a) Open slow browser on slow connection
b) Click vote and after you see request is sent click again and so on (before the page reloaded)
3. Vote, press F5 many times. - no working instead, the same request that Vote click sends should be resent. javascript could be used.
The caz of this bug is the stupid validation. Server does not decline vote request at all. with what they developed they assume the user would not be able to send the request since after page is reloaded, vote button would be disabled.
how stupid is that.
sorry for opening new thread, first one. hate doing new threads but I'm really angry with that.
I sent an email to Nokia Web Team abouth that (mentioned I do not to write on the forums) - no reply. And now we have many ideas with thousands of votes pulled in few minutes.
Rules say that cheaters would be removed. but that would happen later, but now, people with good ideas have no chances since their ideas are much more below the cheating ones. no chances they are being read. and the user coming to a topic with an idea will see that he has no chances since there are few 10000 ones, and would not post.
links are
http://n8makemyapp.com/
http://217.149.58.248/campaign
It started on Monday and became stupid and weird. The contest system has crazy stupid and trivial bug. It allows one person to vote million times. 2 cases:
1.
a) Open 1000 browsers before you vote for an app idea.
b) Click vote in each one by one
2.
a) Open slow browser on slow connection
b) Click vote and after you see request is sent click again and so on (before the page reloaded)
3. Vote, press F5 many times. - no working instead, the same request that Vote click sends should be resent. javascript could be used.
The caz of this bug is the stupid validation. Server does not decline vote request at all. with what they developed they assume the user would not be able to send the request since after page is reloaded, vote button would be disabled.
how stupid is that.
sorry for opening new thread, first one. hate doing new threads but I'm really angry with that.
I sent an email to Nokia Web Team abouth that (mentioned I do not to write on the forums) - no reply. And now we have many ideas with thousands of votes pulled in few minutes.
Rules say that cheaters would be removed. but that would happen later, but now, people with good ideas have no chances since their ideas are much more below the cheating ones. no chances they are being read. and the user coming to a topic with an idea will see that he has no chances since there are few 10000 ones, and would not post.