Cheating

Cheating has always been a minor issue on jetpunk but it's been visibly getting worse over the past year, especially on more difficult quizzes. I really started noticing it when quizzes in this series started getting featured - there's a pretty consistent 5-10% of scores at 100% within a few hours of getting starred - then that percentage steeply drops off when the quizzes hit the front page and starts creeping back after. Point is, these are obviously not real scores - I would be willing to bet a lot of money that 8% of even the most hardcore jetpunkers don't know all 605 cities in Wisconsin but that's what the stats are saying right now. It's just really frustrating that realistically it's not even possible to get 5 stars on my own featured quizzes - even my own home state of Colorado where more than 150 cities doesn't even put me in the top 10% (I actually used to have 5 stars on this one, back when it was initially featured when the stats came from the people who had taken it because they were actually interested in the knowledge).

It's not just my quizzes - apparently more than 5% of people know every city in Europe with 5,000 people in 1346 and 2% know every single language featured on Wikipedia.

And I'd like to remind everyone that these stats only come from the first attempt - if it was the best score that was used or something like that these percentages would be much more understandable but the fact that this many people are supposedly consistently coming into all of these quizzes with a ton of obscure answers and getting 100% on the first try is ridiculous.

I don't know if this is something that can be fixed - I know I've suggested deweighting certain users' scores that are obviously abusing the system (getting 100% on the first take of every quiz they do regardless of the niche it falls into) but I don't know how easy or practical that would be. Just something I wanted to bring attention to.