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Re:Rawkets - A massively multiplayer HTML5 space game (canva... by rauljara on Sunday November 07, 2010 @11:25AM (#1879623)
"The application Rawkets by would like the ability to access and update your data on Twitter. Sign out if you want to connect to an account other than ________."

Not _necessarily_ damning, but it certainly does look suspicious, doesn't it?

Re:Rawkets - A massively multiplayer HTML5 space game (canva... by robhawkes on Sunday November 07, 2010 @11:28AM (#1879635)
I'm the developer of the game and I can assure you that Twitter is only used to assign a username to your rocket. If I ever add the ability to tweet from the game I would ask for your explicit permission each time.
Re:Rawkets - A massively multiplayer HTML5 space game (canva... by icey on Sunday November 07, 2010 @11:27AM (#1879631)
Sorry, I deleted my post because I was being unfair. I did some poking around and saw that the application developer had posted on twitter asking for upvotes if people liked the application.

http://twitter.com/#!/robhawkes/status/1304012481630208

I could see that causing something that looks like sockpuppetry even though it was not.

Re:Rawkets - A massively multiplayer HTML5 space game (canva... by robhawkes on Sunday November 07, 2010 @11:30AM (#1879640)
Icey, I only asked people to vote if they like the game. They get nothing out of it if they do, and I'm not forcing them. I jokingly said they may get a hug if they did, so shoot me if that's illegal.
Re:Rawkets - A massively multiplayer HTML5 space game (canva... by icey on Sunday November 07, 2010 @11:35AM (#1879655)
As far as I know, that's totally fine (in that people do it all the time); I had made a comment that the number of upvotes in such a short amount of time seemed suspicious. Afterwards I discovered your twitter post and realized I was wrong. Unfortunately, I didn't delete my comment in time and someone had replied to it, so I didn't want to leave the phantom reply hanging out there.
Re:Rawkets - A massively multiplayer HTML5 space game (canva... by robhawkes on Sunday November 07, 2010 @11:41AM (#1879676)
Not to worry, thanks for clearing it up :)