Sep 09, 2020

### Fake Ratings Looking at the detailed data of some stories' ratings, we can't help but to suspect that some authors are trying to manipulate them. It's quite easy to do that using anonymous ratings (you just have to use different IP addresses to be able to give an anon vote repeatedly). That's why I've changed the impact of ratings done by logged in users to count 5 times as much as anon ratings some weeks ago. Still, it now seems that some people are creating accounts just for the purpose of up-rating their own stories. First of all, they are cheating themselves that way. What good is a high rating of your story, if you know, this is just the result of your own manipulation? That is no confirmation of its quality at all. And also it's not fair to all other authors either. So please don't do it. If we see that, we will interfere. We have the tools. [Please inform us](mailto:admin@gayspiralstories.com), if you think a story's ratings might be manipulated. Especially on challenge contenders, we will be quite strict with that. Please discuss this topic [in the forum in this thread](https://forum.gayspiralstories.com/t/manipulation-of-story-ratings/1912).