Avatar idea
Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:10 am
Neopets is always trying to get people to change their passwords for security reasons, right? Therefore, if they introduced an avatar you got by changing your password, many people would change their password at least once. It could have a picture of a police Chia with the word 'secure' underneath!
Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:11 am
Wow! That's pretty nifty. Did you send that idea in? You should 
Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:14 am
that would be awesome, especially if you had to change yr pass every month or the av would disappear from yr list...
but they'd have to say how to get the av when they released it otherwise a ton of newbies would be fooled into thinking that if you changed yr pass to "secure" you'd get the av, heh
but they'd have to say how to get the av when they released it otherwise a ton of newbies would be fooled into thinking that if you changed yr pass to "secure" you'd get the av, heh
Re: Avatar idea
Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:14 am
Sankaras Mansion wrote:police Chia
AHHHHHHH!!!!
I dont like the police chia
I see it every time I look at my frozen account...
Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:14 am
good idea, but knowing people on the neoboards, they would run over there when they figured it out and declare "I got this awesome new av by changing my password to 'ilovemypet'" Of course it wouldn't have the same exact lingo, I just can't stand chat speak so I refuse to type in it. But you get the point. Granted it wouldn't be neopet's fault, but still they would have a hacking epidemic.
I can even see hackers going on and spreading rumors about how it only works if you change the password to some specific phrase so then they can get in to accounts as people changed their password to that specific word/phrase
I can even see hackers going on and spreading rumors about how it only works if you change the password to some specific phrase so then they can get in to accounts as people changed their password to that specific word/phrase
Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:24 am
hyperflutterby wrote:I can even see hackers going on and spreading rumors about how it only works if you change the password to some specific phrase so then they can get in to accounts as people changed their password to that specific word/phrase
I imagine anyone that will fall for that has fallen victem to some similar scam already, or will.
Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:27 am
Sankaras Mansion wrote:hyperflutterby wrote:I can even see hackers going on and spreading rumors about how it only works if you change the password to some specific phrase so then they can get in to accounts as people changed their password to that specific word/phrase
I imagine anyone that will fall for that has fallen victem to some similar scam already, or will.
poor New Member people... I feel sorry for them in advance, only because I have some free time now.
Fri Aug 06, 2004 1:12 am
hyperflutterby wrote:good idea, but knowing people on the neoboards, they would run over there when they figured it out and declare "I got this awesome new av by changing my password to 'ilovemypet'" Of course it wouldn't have the same exact lingo, I just can't stand chat speak so I refuse to type in it.
Allow me.
Topic title:
"OMG!!! I GOT TEH NEW AVERTAR!"
Message:
OMG! ok all idid was i change my pass 2 iluvchias and then somethin happened came up and i got the new avertar! lolol!!1
*sigh* I love mocking people who talk like that.
Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:32 am
I've gotta agree, there would be too many scamming opportunities if they made an av like that. Good concept though, but it needs tweaking. Maybe if they had to change their pass to a randomly generated number or something?
Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:32 am
thats liek such a good idea!
Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:34 am
I like the idea... I'm trying to think of how to get around scammers...
Well, they don't have to announce it, for one... *thinks some more*
Well, they don't have to announce it, for one... *thinks some more*
Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:35 am
it would work if neo just gave a disclaimer a little somthing like this "Only Change your Password to something only you would know, never change you password to someone elses suggestion, never change you email to one other than your's" and maybe some "neo...will never ask....your password, or for you to change it" type thing
Fri Aug 06, 2004 5:32 am
bapanapa wrote:thats liek such a good idea!
Pardon my confusion, but how is that like a good idea? It may be a good idea, but how can it be like one?
Or were you being sarcastic, as in "That's similar to a good idea . . . except that it's bad"?
_mash_ -- Unfortunately, creating/releasing the avatar but not announcing it would make it more prone to scamming, I suspect.
Fri Aug 06, 2004 5:33 am
oh god if that was to happen more newbies would be hacked in one day rthan in all of neopets history 
Fri Aug 06, 2004 5:34 am
hiddenneggs wrote:bapanapa wrote:thats liek such a good idea!
Pardon my confusion, but how is that like a good idea? It may be a good idea, but how can it be like one?
Or were you being sarcastic, as in "That's similar to a good idea . . . except that it's bad"?
_mash_ -- Unfortunately, creating/releasing the avatar but not announcing it would make it more prone to scamming, I suspect.
pleez stop i already get teased by enough people in general chat as i said in comments/suggestions im almost ready to pack my bags & leave. i was saying its a good idea no need to pick on me for it