[chapsrulez]

Im using Vbulletin 3.7.0 and Thanks Hack.

Long time ago, in order to download attachments in my community, users must have at least one reply to a thread and i created a "introduce yourself to the community" thread where new users may be able to have their first post and download all my content.

About a month ago, i have no restriction to download files, any user (registered or not) is able to download, but i kept the introduce thread, every time a new user is registered, a private message is sent to their inbox and users are asked to read the rules and to make their first post in the introduce thread.

I also close threads when they reach 3,500 replies and open a new one, in the case of the introduce yourselve thread i have 4 threads.

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Today i noticed that on one of my closed introduce yourself to the community thread, four users are having a lot of thanks which is strange because

1- The thanks are on a closed thread which is only visible on the fourth or fifth page of the forumdisplay
2- Those posts should not recive a thank because they are useless posts
3- The users are reciving up to three or four thanks of the same day by the same user

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My question is if this is some kind of exploit on the hack?
or what maybe something wrong with the settings of the hack?

any help would be appreciated.
thanks a lot.