Well there's something fun... I was playing Curveball, finished at around 22000 points... and it's overwritten my score of 58 for hexxagon. This angers Lenny.
It's quite stupid, mostly the reason I don't participate in the arcade much. There's no point in trying to go for a genuine high score when someone can come out of nowhere and obliterate it with a phony score.
It's hard to tell if some scores are legit or not, so a moderator of the arcade might not be able to get them all. That's why the better answer would be to just fix the problem. I think it's a problem they cannot fix though, as it's a problem with the Arcade version they are using or something like that.
They also need to add line flyer so I can dominate it.
I know for a fact that the highest score possible on Hexxagon is 58. Google it, and you'll find the 58 is a perfect score - every single place is held by a red diamond.
We've all played Smack the Penguin. So we all know that the 325 barrier is more or less the limit.
I can't say for sure about the other scores, but the obvious and continued abuse of Hexxagon alone is worth a temp ban.
It happens to some of us accidentally, but to two people fighting for the top spot over and over? Now come on!
EDIT: To add something to the Smack the Penguin highscore. Ain't it kinda funny that no-one else has left a comment next to their score, yet our ever-so-amazing Arcade player Pnut has?
but the obvious and continued abuse of Hexxagon alone is worth a temp ban.
Well I don't know about all that. Maybe make a new usergroup for people that can't access the arcade and temporarily "ban" them from the arcade or something. A normal temp ban would be a bit extreme I think.
I'm pretty sure if you look at the time they were able to set the high scores in, clearly you'd be able to tell that they are cheating.
But sometimes legit scores seem to have very short times. You could end up erasing good scores that are completely legit, and that would be just as bad.
What I mean is there seems to be a bug that causes even legit scores to sometimes show a time of like 5 seconds when it clearly wasn't possible.
I think there is a point however, when 1 person has every high score, that its known they aren't playing the games and not cheating.
And I'm not arguing with you about that, I completely agree.
What I'm saying is the best way to deal with this would be to just fix the problem rather than rely on a human to decide whether a score is legit or not. A human deleting a legit high score is just as bad as a human beating a legit high score with a bugged high score.
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