Palnet Quick Tip: What is THIS present?

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So, we had ourselves a bit of a scare this morning over in the extremely calm Palnet Discord (The previous is a lie, we are running around like banshees. But, knock on wood, we still have our health)

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So over-night one of the people on pal noticed the little present on the far right of their steem-engine screen

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Clicked it, and saw that their name is auto entered. This person put their stake amount in there, and was pleasantly surprised to find that they were now delegating to themselves and had double stake. They then proceeded to spend the next few hours repeating this process until the once 130-ish account had built itself yo a VERY powerful 72k account. YIKES!

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Well, thankfully we have people watching for stuff like this as we scrambled to find how this loophole could be closed pronto! The devs quickly found the loophole and closed it up before any real damage could be done. And I got break out nopal4u@nopal4u to do what it was designed to do! A quick down-vote from the account got everything square again.

So here's the quick tip: That present you see is NOT for you. It's for you to delegate to someone else.

At least the system now tells you that and will no longer allow self-delegation.

So, each day is bringing something new and exciting in the Palnet world and I think that we're just about as stable as.....

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Ummmm.. Hold that thought...

Palnet Quick Tip: What is THIS present? | Ecency