RE: Introducing SportsPredictSocial, predict results of upcoming sport events and get rewarded with SPORTS tokens

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leedsunited in #sportstalk • 5 years ago (edited)

WARNING DO NOT TYPE ANY STEEM PASSOWRD OR KEY INTO A WEBSITE THAT DOESNT USE STEEMCONNECT OR KEYCHAIN AND HASNT EVEN GOT A BASIC SECURITY CERTIFICATE

reported to Steemcleaners as a phishing scam.

Didn't understand any of that at all! You want us to pay to post? LOL......Bizarre . Oh, and the App doesn't actually work? Totally confused.
And with all due respect, who are you?

As for the delegation. It appears all you have done is curate your mates posts and then send the profits to market?

This all appears extremely scammy.

Your App asks for username and password? What password?? Our Steem password? Are you off your head?

5 years ago in #sportstalk by leedsunited

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battleaxe 5 years ago (edited)

why the heck' is this post being promoted or asked about then on the discord chat? WTFFFFFF
In collaboration with the amazing SportsTalkSocial platform, we hereby introduce to you SportsPredictSocial.

SportsPredictSocial is an initiative brought to you by @gotgame with special appreciation going to @patrickulrich of SportsTalkSocial for his extensive support in making this project come to fruition.

thank YOU for bringing this to our attention, I have zero interest in it anyways and am very confused as to why this was promoted by some running for ref position/ leadership, ummmmm
O.o

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scarletreign 5 years ago

uv Leeds on this on both my reg acct and sports one, Thanks for the heads up regardless of what is spun from it it sounds shady as Leeds said, imho
have a good one, don't put in keys....... nice to see the 'deli' was used for a circle jerk then profits sold , whatever, have a great Sunday folks

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reverendrum 5 years ago (edited)

No SSL. We'd need to see info on the CA after the fix it if they even intend to do so.
Agreed with @leedsunited, nobody should ever put their credentials into this website until these glaring issues are fixed, and even then be careful.

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gotgame 5 years ago

Hello @leedsunited @battleaxe @reverendrum thank you for your comments. There's nothing to get worked up about and I would like to take this medium to explain to users of sportstalksocial and other sport enthusiasts on this platform that this project is as legit as it can get and the reason for any discrepancies was actually because the version that is currently live is only a test version. I didn't notice the SSL error early enough and it is currently being tended to as we speak and the password being requested on the login page is just your posting key, no other password will if it is not your posting key.

If you are not comfortable with entering your posting key for login it is perfectly okay, Keychain authentication has been moved up the list of features to be added and is the actual one being currently worked on, it should be added in a few days, you can wait till then before testing out the application.

Nobody's out to scam anyone as no funds has been requested from anyone up until this moment, the app is free to use at the moment but not for long. Predictions could have been free to make but then there are running costs to consider, as of now the app can still be used freely.

The project is far from done yet, it is a work in progress.

It is my sincere hope that you all can bear with me as SportsPredictSocial is still a one man show but this one man is working day in and day out to make sure everything is right.

Thank you so much for your feedback and opinions too, all noted and being tended too.

You all are the best.

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patrickulrich 5 years ago

@leedsunited thank you for pointing out a very real security issue on login. This was an oversight as the testing for it was completed on the direct server and it appears that @gotgame hasn't reset the certificate to work at sportspredictsocial.com vs the heroku app. The direct server can be used with SSL at https://sportspredictsocial.herokuapp.com/login.html.

Even with a secured login page I agree there needs to be additional login options made available. Right now you can use a posting key (what I tested the service with) to make posts but you're still submitting that to @gotgame's servers. I've asked that Steem Keychain and/or Steemconnect be utilized for login in the future and anticipate that as one of the first software updates.

All this being said the site does work for creating predictions albeit still needing lots of work to be fully ready for regular users. I've personally been able to submit a prediction via an alt account that I tested with. Unfortunately it still has issues at the time where I was able to select far too many outcomes including opposite sides of the same matchup but none the less the progress @gotgame has made since first telling me about it has been amazing.

As for the upcoming payments for predictions I believe that stems from some of my suggestions off my initial usage of the app. I had recommend that there be a second mode with a running pot that users would have to submit daily matches for. If they get one wrong then they're out for that season. I suggested to let users pay a burn fee to skip a daily prediction in that mode and thus they could move to the next day if they weren't sure who would win. I assume this was what he was referencing in this announcement as my understanding was that the regular prediction upvote system was going to be a free system. I won't speculate too much here though because it's up to @gotgame how he'd like to run his app.

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leedsunited 5 years ago

Thanks Patrick. I think that sometimes things get lost in translation a little so I am hesitant to condemn but even with the purest of intentions, the issue of posting keys into a website is a very dangerous thing to do.

I hope @gotgame gets these issued sorted and can come up with a secure and viable product.

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