Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 9:09:32 AM
The voting bug has just been fixed. It was a difficult hole to find because, as with most of our security measures, it already aggressively tries to find people who are repeatedly producing the same action. And although it is aggressive, hitting the back button and voting again was enough to add some more votes.
Part of the problem was that I put in such aggressive security measures and it made it difficult to find the hole. As mentioned earlier, we had folks who made some bot to constantly refresh SK, thereby pissing off our ad networks. I've since set up automatic measures to counteract and block that, and I also use similar methods for voting. On top of that, I tracked votes to ensure that no one was trying to vote too often. The issue rested where tracking and blocking had a gap. Hopefully that was clear without getting into too much detail.
Last night I found the bug and have fixed it. Please let us know if you do find any more bugs with that either by posting on the comment wall or with feedback.
I'm currently working on SK 2.0 which features a new look and a number of other things. It should be going up by April 20th. Until then! :) -- Ramadev
