cabennett85/gittest — Issue #1172: Unsetting and setting horoscopes gives you infinite points
Author: cabennett85
Created: 2012-03-02 00:39:51+00:00
State: open

I found an exploit in your points system. I understand that one way to get
people to participate is to have this points system in place.

One way to get practically INFINITE amount of points, probably 10's of
thousands in a day... is to go to your "Edit profile" and then to "Additional
information" and when you change your horoscope to none (and probably to any
other horoscope) you get 10 points, then you switch it back, you get 10..
rince, wash, repeat times infinite.. so I'm sure I can't be the only person
who has found this exploit. If people are abusing this it really takes away
the point of earning points as it is incredibly easy to just cheat your way to
the top. Thanks for your time.

SOLUTION:

Remove points from horoscopes i.e. you get no points for setting your horoscope (even the first time)