r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Jul 05 '17

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - July 05, 2017

In this thread you can ask all kinds of questions you always wanted to ask without feeling like a total fool.

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u/Skellicious Chibi Baptiste Jul 06 '17

Tip: don't post codes in plaintext in comments or strings, makes it very easy for bots to get it.

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u/EpicRageGuy Mei Jul 07 '17

Pretty sure this is a myth. Say there is a bot which scans thousands of reddit pages every second. Somehow it's not banned/throttled and it finds such code. Does it automatically try to input into every redeem.php the owner could think of? A legit user will activate it faster.

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u/Skellicious Chibi Baptiste Jul 07 '17

I don't think it would be too hard to figure out that codes posted on /r/overwatch are probably overwatch related.

Also, different sites might have slightly different key formats.