quangntenemy Posted:

It’s a bug that lets you bid on your own auction.

Actually, it did far more than that, see above.

The glitch involved logging into a new account that was not yet fully active, while still logged in to your ‘Primary’ account.

This allowed you to act as if you were two different players, but from the same account. Therefore, you could bid on your own Auctions, bid on your Alt’s auctions, and vote multiple times on every single ForumBuildr & ItemBuildr submissions. I believe that it would also have allowed you to vote multiple times on your own INCIT submissions as well as allow you to buy cards in Domination without paying for them, but the bug was fixed before I had a chance to test that theory. Even so, being able to upvote your own submissions as well as downvote your competitors, multiple times, was potentially catastrophic. The power of ‘illegal Klan voting’ in the hands of a single player.

I performed a number of Auction tests before anyone even noticed. It was only after an extremely large and obvious test (to very the correct amounts of Flezz were transferring and being refunded) did anyone file a ‘report’.

In the wrong hands, it could have been very, very damaging for a long time, and I think Zagerblag showed excellent character by reporting it immediately.