We've noticed a very tiny proportion of silly users, who are rather stupidly trying to increase their Fan Valuation.

Here's what they're doing:

1) Messaging people via meebo asking for 'cool' votes, etc.
2) Posting multiple short comments in team/league forums in the hope that we won't notice.
3) Creating multiple accounts to fake vote

Ooh clever idea right? Well nope, posting multiple short comments in quick succession, or spanning one comment across multiple posts will actually decrease your fan valuation, as it trips our filters and negative points are awarded.

There's also a hefty penalty for users who get comments deleted by the mods.

We also know exactly who the cuplrits asking for 'cool' votes via meebo are. As of today, we will be replacing all their cool votes with 'silly' and manually decreasing their valuation.

As for multiple accounts, vlad will be going through all users that have been doing this, and we will be adding fan valuation penalties where applicable.

The old adage that 'cheaters never prosper', is applicable to footytube too, so don't be silly folks.


Edit: If any of you get messaged via users on meebo asking for 'cool' votes, or spamming of any kind, message a staff member and we'll look at the meebo logs. If we agree they're spamming, we'll then immediately decrease their fan valuation. And don't forget to give them 2 silly votes while you're at it

Hey great stuffs, I recently came through a user who has a lot a lot of funny votes but when I go through their posts, I don't find them funny at all, however very stupid and silly. Great plan

The other day, someone came up to me on the chat and asked me to vote them "cool" several times.... It was very annoying :/
It's a very good idea by footytube to take action against people like that

Well I wanna ask some questions....

1)After buying players if get some amount left.... Can we utilize it somewhere or not?


2)Well can we post football news in forums from other wibesites by pasting them or giving the links?

I have posted this thing again as I didn't get reply from Ant.... So you guys better help me out

Is it mean that in Meebo, their will not be any privacy ? If we 2 very close friends discussing something, like password or gossiping about any staff.... It will be noticed and that staff may take action after seeing that

Cool and it seems helpful, thanks

Nice idea to make them pay. I'm not doing it though.... I hope - my fan valuation has been going up. The staff on footytube rule

Well I do have to ask how so many people got their fan valuation increased. I remember 1 or 2 weeks ago I finally made it into the premiere then during the next round I was 8th in the champions, I kept on wondering how that was possible but I guess this explains it.

It also surprises me that the top 5 valuations belong to staff members. I know you guys have a life too and you are on footytube as much as we can be but it still seams a bit odd.

This seems like a logical step against spammers and what not.  I've never got a message from someone asking me to vote for them though....

I am very happy to know that you guys are taking this fan valuation very seriously when it comes to people trying to cheat the system. I feel more at ease knowing that the people on the top 100 didn't get there because they somehow cheated. I do not understand however why staff gets fan valuation

Some people are still spamming the forums, posting the same message over and over again all over the place. This will not only be picked up by the fan valuation code at night and punish users automatically, but also all of the mods are usually notified so we have to spend our time cleaning it up, which we don't like

Great job guys....  Keep it up!  

It is cool the way the staff has been working on that fan valuation problem because sometimes people put Rude to you even if you are never Rude to anyone just by judging that you are doing too great and not them.... I am glad that had find a way to make it fair

Don't forget, it's against site policy to beg users for cool votes either in forums, on member walls or in meebo! If you do this a few times, it could trip a piece of code which automatically lowers your valuation.

Basically, if you want cool or funny votes just be cool or funny on the site, don't beg for them from other people.

Also, we've seen a huge rise in the amount of text speak in the forums, with shortened words like "u'r crzy" instead of "You're crazy". This is all picked up by the automated fan valuation script code which runs every night, and will hurt your valuation.

Things that will automatically lower your valuation:
* Typing in all capital letters.
* Typing in text or l33t speak.
* Multiple swear words in a post, even if you try to be clever about it
* Begging for votes and friends

Also, If a mod has to manually delete your posts because they break the rules, you're valuation will go down.

Things that are totally against site rules and will get you on a watchlist
* Racism, homophobia, hate speech, excessive swearing, threats, images of violence etc

Please just take your time on the forums, enjoy yourself without insulting or attacking others. Spell-checking before posting would be great, a lot of the newer browsers do this automatically (Chrome, Firefox).

Hopefully this answers a few questions as to why some peoples valuations are low or drop strangely.

Hey all, if you notice someone is begging you for cool votes or otherwise trying to cheat the system, please point them to this topic. If they write the same message to too many people, we will probably get notified if the automatic script doesn't catch it by itself.

Cheating the system is just cheating the other users who have earned their cool votes and fan valuation fairly. Don't let it happen, and please don't do it yourself.


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