Lucky Dip

[Artificial]

Why do we even need account checkers? Users should just be able to say it didn't work, and the submitter will get a strike against them. To say it didn't work though, you have to have at least 30 posts. That way people don't come on the forum, leech accounts, and say they didn't work so they can get a refund when they actually did work.

That'd take so much administrating. You can't tell if the user is lying or telling the truth, etc. Automation is always better in a scenario like this.

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That'd take so much administrating. You can't tell if the user is lying or telling the truth, etc. Automation is always better in a scenario like this.

But wouldn't automation take some extremely complicated proxy-utilizing account checker in this case?

[GAMEchief]

Why do we even need account checkers? Users should just be able to say it didn't work, and the submitter will get a strike against them. To say it didn't work though, you have to have at least 30 posts. That way people don't come on the forum, leech accounts, and say they didn't work so they can get a refund when they actually did work.

You'd need the session to get an automatic Tektek value for the account.

But what about accounts that are in the system for some time? If the accounts are unsecured, as is, they could easily be banned.

Yup. "Buy at your own risk."

But wouldn't automation take some extremely complicated proxy-utilizing account checker in this case?

Not if they provide the session. Or, at least, the password might be wrong (unless Gaia publicly provides an encrypted password that I don't know about somewhere?). But they wouldn't be lying about having access to the account, nor would they be able to lie about the value of the account.

And if it's something like UG-only submitters or otherwise hand-picked/high-requirement submitters, it's very unlikely that they will both have access to the account but not actually submit the correct password with their lucky dip submission. "Buy at your own risk" + user reports should be enough to see what's up. One user getting a bunch of reports, probably being malicious. Random users getting picked, probably bans out of their control or the user lying; either way, doesn't matter.