This user's behavior (and username) seem odd

[victimless-grime]

Is it normal to rate 43,000 ratable entities at 5 stars, in seemingly alphabetical order, starting with special characters? Plus, how’d they manage to get a single special character as their username, is that even allowed. If it is, that seems like a major security flaw that should probably be fixed. Linux uses that symbol to store environment variables, for example, and unless MB is a major outliar, it’s running on a Linux server.

Could also be nothing, or it could be some site admin bot doing a thing I just happened to stumble across, or maybe it’s some happy dude who thinks 40,000 things are super awesome. Either way, I thought I should say something just in case.

Editor “$” - MusicBrainz

Total ratings:

296 pages of artist ratings:

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@victimless-grime

Is it normal to rate 43,000 ratable entities at 5 stars, in seemingly alphabetical order, starting with special characters?

They are always displayed in alphabetical order (which doesn’t mean the ratings are legit, but they could be - in principle, nothing in those ratings screams a problem to me).

@victimless-grime

Plus, how’d they manage to get a single special character as their username, is that even allowed.

Pretty much everything is allowed as a MB username. Maybe it shouldn’t be - it’s a historical decision that we sometimes regret But there’s nothing unexpected about this being available, anyway.

@victimless-grime

Either way, I thought I should say something just in case.

The right way to do this in the future is to report the user from their profile - then we admins can check whether something seems off without having a public post / accusation. I’m closing the post for now - in this case, I don’t see anything we should act on anyway.