• What is Share Faking?
• What is Slot Locking?
• What is Tag Faking?

This is where you falsely inflate your projected file size being shared on Direct Connect.

Basically, the “reasoning” behind doing this is that the large and elite hubs require users to share in the range of 80+ GB to even enter their hub. Many people do not have the hard drive capacity to share that much. They feel that the 400 other hubs out there, that don’t have these high requirements, are not good enough for them. So they fake their fileshare to enter these “better than average” hubs.

Here is what the creator of the sharefaking tool says about this:

first off, i don't think my share fakers are killing dc because there
are 100,000 other people who don't use my share faker. second, if you are
very smart when using your faker, you hardly get banned. lol i get banned
off oh 5 hubs out of the 400 i connect to when i need some thing off dc.
and this sharing 'ideology', you are bullshitting when u say if every body
share faked and there would be no share to downloading from, thats a lame statement,
this would be true if dc was smaller. but there are lot of people and not
every body will share fake.

If you do not have the hard drive capacity to join these top hubs, then you do not belong there. All the users have put in the money and time to have valid shares of these large sizes. Fakers destroy the DC community.

Fakers are easily caught by a simple share check. Those who resort to more clever methods to fakeshare with garbage files can also be easily caught.

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by USR56K edited by JMGullett
last modified: 2007-01-31 09:25:18

This “freezes” the slots on a DC client so no one else can connect (because all slots are full). Plain and simple, this is a pure leech mentality.

This is simply caught for DC++ clients because it ALWAYS will allow a filelist upload (well, most often; I won't go into details), regardless if slots are full. There is a version of DC++ out there that will allow only OPs to get the users filelist and lock the slots for normal users (a good reason not to OP the Ragnarok Client when scanning your hub).

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by USR56K edited by JMGullett
last modified: 2007-01-31 09:27:05

A tag is the DC++ tag, i.e. <++ V:0.305,M:A,H:0/1/0,S:2 (meaning of the <++ tag).
A faker can simply be defined as having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent.

That being said, a tag faker is someone who either hides or fraudulently modifies their DC++ tag. OPs permban any user on sight who is doing this.

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by USR56K edited by JMGullett
last modified: 2007-01-31 09:29:48