Incentives for Reporting Duplicate Accounts?
I was wondering if the Chefs have ever considered alternative incentives for reporting duplicate accounts, such as *cough* tokens. I know they attempted using a badge, but that idea was quickly abandoned.
When I go around sniping people, I find an astonishing number of accounts that seem to be abandoned. They have a single *friend*, and have either accepted 0 deliveries or else have accepted Amsterdam High Seas from their *friend*.
As I browse through the accounts, I've noticed that this *friend* seems to be the same few people over and over. Many of these people are fairly active on IB, and some are even VIP's.
I know the chefs try to look out for these things, but I also believe they're missing quite a few. It makes it much more difficult to snipe because these accounts are the ones that tie up most of my stamps.
Has anyone else noticed this problem?
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iqon on Jul 08, 2007
ARRRRR, bounty hunters!
Do I understand your post correctly that you are sending sets to what appears to be abandoned accounts and upset that your stamps are tied up?
iqon on Jul 08, 2007
Should the people trying to track down duplicate accounts join the "IB BountyHunters" or the "IB CSI" clan?
programmerangel on Jul 08, 2007
I don't bother sending sets to the blatantly abandoned ones, but there are quite a few others that I'm unsure of.
iqon on Jul 08, 2007
I wish the profiles showed the last time the account was accessed.
iqon on Jul 08, 2007
Me monkey had an interesting scheme.
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If the chefs offer rewards:
member Alpha creates two new accounts called Bogus and Cheater. Alpha has no interaction with the two accounts. Bogus and Cheater make trades. Alpha turns in Bogus & Cheater to get a bounty. Alpha repeats the process, collecting buckets of free tokens.
MacManX on Jul 09, 2007
Perhaps just a harmless "Bounty Collections" total with one point per accurate report of a duplicate account. If we do that, then we could form two competing "teams" of bounty hunter for added fun. Taking iqon's idea and running with it, I propose "CSI: IconBuffet" and "Law & Order: IconBuffet Unit".
aaroncampbell on Jul 09, 2007
I asked people at work, friends, family, whoever to sign up. Most really weren't that interested, but signed up to give me the points and credit. For the ones that didn't care, I asked that they take AHS. Points are points. I'd bet that a bunch of them don't do much on here any more. I know some asked me for more sets a while later, but I'm out of stamps...which bothered them. They wanted the sets from me.
Being a bit fed up myself (not being able to get enough stamps to keep up with the demand), I offered no defense for IB. So, they probably left.
JBVisions on Jul 09, 2007
Same here. People often sign up if you're a friend or family and you ask them to, that doesn't necessarily mean they then want to do anything further. Four of my referrals have gone VIP and are very active, others have taken a few sets, some have taken nothing and I've had my stamps tied up with them for a week, yes it's annoying.
More annoying are the ones who spend all their tokens the first month and you gleefully make a note of their refresh date, the day before you ship them a load of sets and they never log back in to get them. Loads of stamps tied up :(
Last week I got one who came in via a link I left on the web and promptly went off and asked Anti to send sets, not me. The only reason I knew they were there was because I noticed extra stamps and then Anti left a message in my box.
People don't play by the rules we want them to, much as it wold be nice. For example, I'd love it if my active referrals refused to trade with anyone but me but some, who shall remain nameless (FallenAngel and HRP) trade with everyone but me! Just wait till Christmas! I'll get my own back. ;)
Atryx on Jul 09, 2007
Some people here simply have nothing better to do ! Try to enjoy beeing here !
There are people that take care of IB problems ... !!!!! YOU don't come here for sniping people !!!!!
If your purpose for beeing here is this! Than please leave !
I know that are some that abuse the system but, and I repet myself, there are people that are looking after those kind of individuals.
wotan on Jul 09, 2007
@programmerangel: Perhaps you should form a group like IBConcernedPeopleWhoTakeItWayTooSeriously? Lighten up dude...
elnitido52 on Jul 09, 2007
Here we go again......
iqon on Jul 09, 2007
The real problem is the dichotomy of the groups. Non-iconholics will join and soon leave, while the iconholics will slide deeper into the addiction until they read & post on the forum.
They could always devise a test to see if the person is an iconholic and reject membership to those not addicted. But the problem arises that we need to add new addicts and the best source are those not yet addicted. Let them all join and we'll see who becomes infected with the iconic collection syndrome.
iconmaster on Jul 09, 2007
We do get people who sign up and then don't do much else, for whatever reason. These aren't dupe accounts -- just people who don't know a good thing when they find it. ;)
elnitido52 on Jul 09, 2007
;o)