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Comment by erisds | Hacker News Reader

The most amazing browser-based game EVER made!

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"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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not to worry, thanks for clearing it up :)

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