Anyone have a guess at how many users there are on this forum?
Total Number of Forum Users
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I’m gonna say ~200, but I could be totally off.
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I’d say 500-1000
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I will go with 1200-2400, but most are not regulars.
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Holy crap?!?!!
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Yeah and click on the columns and see who is top few based on likes posts etc.
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It seems as if most of the accounts were fake spam accounts created to rig the Anker giveaways. There are 50k+ fake accounts. Here’s a screenshot of some of them.
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Fake accounts - do you think any are using multiple accounts to give themselves likes? 5 points.
Also the notion that Anker can spot and prevent this is nonsense because with incognito browsers and Tor one person can appear to be dozens of people.
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ehh. explain why there are accounts numbered from 1 to 50k. all same description, etc. definately bot created for giveaways.
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cough cough OnePlusOne invites, cough cough
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SAME. shady ebay sellers had such a monopoly on those. good thing i got my hands on an invite before they exploded in popularity
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I have every oneplus phone…
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I don’t have every OnePlus (but almost).
I had the OPO. I didn’t like the size and screen brightness so I sold it and got a OP2. I got a OPX for a family member. I skipped the OP3 because the OP2 was good enough for me and the OP3 no better in the areas I prefer. I still feel though a bit of emotional loyalty to OP as they are helping define a more sensibly priced and pragmatic approach to specs and price. I have carried a OP2 in my pocket for >1 year and paid <$400 for it.
The issue on forums, like in Anker has some parallels to OnePlus - there is the potential for profit. Not as much in Anker’s case as in OnePlus’s case but I observed a little bit of what OnePlus did wrong with Anker in that the 26800 codes were not locked to a specific user and were valid for a few days, so it allowed for someone to write a Bot which gathered the codes and then could seek to sell them on (somehow). I doubt anyone did that, but just a little bit of concern if Anker does something similar with say a high-cost item like the Powerhouse.
I wish Anker and OnePlus every success, both good brands now and hope them to succeed and drive up quality.
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Where did you find this?
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Well spoken!!
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Oh man, I remember the OnePlus invites thing. That was one hell of a shitstorm to be caught up in. I made it out with a One. This reminds me of that too.
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That is a problem with public forums. People can spoof and play games all they want. Thankfully those people usually get bored with it over the long run and then the true users can prevail.
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You can now spot those who were playing games. Now the competition is past it goes quiet…
The lesson from the OnePlus invite is to have invite codes locked to accounts, not ones which last a while and anyone can use which can then go in Craigslist / ebay.
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