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Most of you will probably have seen the accusations flying around in
your common rooms, in the Great Hall and even at the end of chapters by
now.
Users on Pottermore are employing techniques to win points which they have not rightfully earned. Although Hufflepuff's SnitchSpirit168,
who is currently (unsurprisingly) top of the leader board is an obvious
example, there are many people in every house that have been cheating;
some in a much less obvious manner.
SnitchSpirit168 has publicly announced that they are using a bot to
get all of the points from dueling. A bot is a program that is made to
repeatedly complete a task, in this case it has been programmed to duel
continuously against other users and has overcome the anti-bot guards
put in place on Pottermore by logging out and back in again when asked
to type in the words shown.
Other users have been making accounts in different houses and
purposefully losing duels in order to give their preferred house the
points. I'm sure there are plenty of other methods of cheating being
utilized and if you want to read a little more in depth about the
subject, I suggest you have a read of ElmBlade43's expertly written blog post.
I, along with many other Pottermore users, do not agree with any methods of cheating.
Pottermore is a game, and as ElmBlade43 says, games are
supposed to be fun, and it's not fun when you know users are cheating
and gaining hundreds of thousands of points which they have not worked
for. Cheating on a game in which users are competing is, to me, very
much like stealing.
By: Nawal Chaudhry
