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I accidentally rated a game whilst being logged off and it created a new account!?

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So I was rating some games, but didn't notice I was automatically logged off and some new account (which I don't seem to have any access to) was created :!: :?: :!: :?:

Account in question: https://games.criticker.com/profile/GEjhyI/

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Re: I accidentally rated a game whilst being logged off and it created a new account!?

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Oh shit, I've been wondering what all these accounts were. Over the past few months, I kept seeing accounts that were named six random letters long (like the one you linked) that each had just one or two ratings. I thought it was a bot making them for some reason. I meant to find a ton of them and submit a bug report, but I hadn't gotten around to it yet. On the movie side of the site, I bet I've seen over a hundred of these random accounts. I wouldn't be surprised if there are many more.

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Re: I accidentally rated a game whilst being logged off and it created a new account!?

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Wow. Wonder if it's related to this

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Re: I accidentally rated a game whilst being logged off and it created a new account!?

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Hmm... okay, that's definitely a mistake.

We use these identifiers to recognize guest users and track their ratings, so that when they (hopefully) eventually sign up for an account, the ratings can be moved into their real users.

It should never be displaying, though, in a separate profile ... we'll take a look soon at what might be going on there! Thanks for reporting the issue.

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Re: I accidentally rated a game whilst being logged off and it created a new account!?

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Is this the same issue as this rating with no account? I come across ratings like this with no account attached to them sometimes.

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Re: I accidentally rated a game whilst being logged off and it created a new account!?

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BadCosmonaut wrote:
Thu Mar 04, 2021 4:04 am
Is this the same issue as this rating with no account? I come across ratings like this with no account attached to them sometimes.
I found two more, both maybe involving PedroPT: Disrupted (2020), The Classified File (2015).

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Re: I accidentally rated a game whilst being logged off and it created a new account!?

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Oops, I did it again https://games.criticker.com/profile/4wMn70/

What's more interesting; only Alienation is my rating, Dead Cells was rated by someone else. I'm 100% sure of that.

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Re: I accidentally rated a game whilst being logged off and it created a new account!?

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Has this problem returned? See the ratings for Black Crab (2022). User "gWrOs0" rated it a 15. Clicking into that user's account leads to a 404 page.

Edit: whoa, I made this post within 3 hours of exactly 1 year since the last post.

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I thought we had fixed this last year, but it looks like it might have returned? I've re-opened the bug, and we'll take another look.

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Re: I accidentally rated a game whilst being logged off and it created a new account!?

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BadCosmonaut wrote:
Tue Mar 22, 2022 7:54 am
Has this problem returned? See the ratings for Black Crab (2022). User "gWrOs0" rated it a 15. Clicking into that user's account leads to a 404 page.
Alright, I think we've got this one fixed up now -- can you check again?

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