Gazing at the Rainbow

Chapter 17: Discovered a Bug

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Lin Yao began to think that the Hang City Forum was rather fascinating. She tried to follow some posts with her id and left her tracks in every section.

When she left a consoling comment under someone’s post about getting dumped in the love life section, her computer suddenly froze!

She refreshed several times in a row, and then something incredible happened. A few seconds later, there were seventeen or eight identical comments under that same post.

The points displayed under her id name also increased to 19.

Lin Yao was taken aback, and she quickly deleted these redundant comments.

Fortunately, the forum allowed users to delete their own posts and comments, so there were no consequences.

What she did not expect was that even after those redundant comments were deleted, she still had 19 points.

Huh?

Lin Yao seemed to have discovered something incredible.

She then kept refreshing and refreshing…

A few seconds later, she discovered that her points had risen to 108, and her title was upgraded to Forum Ranger.

After deleting the meaningless 89 comments, she sank into deep thought.

If she upgraded her status this way, she could score hundreds of points in one minute. If she didn’t guess wrong, this may be a system bug in the Hang City Forum.

Lin Yao believed that as long as she deleted the evidence in time after receiving the points, virtually no evidence of this would be left behind.

The only inconvenience was that the speed of deleting posts was much slower than the speed of posting posts.

If you posted something yourself, then deleted the entire post after receiving the points, it would be much more convenient and faster.

This method would undoubtedly raise your id level in a very short time, but this way of stealing points was unfair and was definitely discouraged.

Once discovered by other people or by administrators and moderators, there would definitely be consequences.

So was there a way to successfully score points without being discovered?

After some careful research, Lin Yao found that in fact, this wasn’t impossible to achieve. Take the love life cabin subsection of the love life category as an example. The average daily posting volume reached 2w-3w, the highest peak was two hours after 9:00 pm, and the lowest peak was before 9:00 in the morning.

In theory, if Lin Yao posted 2000 posts in the early morning before the moderator got to work, then deleted them immediately after earning 2000 points, the whole process wouldn’t take more than three minutes, and she wouldn’t get discovered.

The same was true for other forums, but she definitely wasn’t going to try the popular forums like the livelihood forum, which was full of angry youth and keyboard warriors.

Lin Yao browsed the Hang City Forum. After some careful consideration, she came to the conclusion that by using this shameless method of exploiting small, unpopular sections to upgrade her status, she would only need half an hour every day to get tens of thousands of points.

In other words, she could upgrade her id status to the highest level on the Hang City Forum, but would that be meaningful?

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When one passed the time in a meaningful way, time seemed to pass by faster.

In the blink of an eye, Lin Yao’s second week at Lingyun Industry ended.

During this period, the first thing Lin Yao did after getting up every morning was to memorize vocabulary for half an hour. She spent a week imprinting the “smart association memory method” into her mind.

Lin Yao’s memory was very good, and she practically retained whatever she saw. But in the past, she had always used this talent to be lazy.

For example, when she was in school, she studied hard every day, but she only seriously studied one week a semester. In all her courses, she achieved average test scores that ranked her in the middle of her class. For individual courses that interested her, she passed with flying colors.

It was a pity that there were too few courses that interested her. Teachers also generally disliked lazy and unmotivated students like her, so for many years, no one realized that she had this extraordinary memory.

At 7:30, Lin Yao set off to work. She did her listening training on her way to work. Whether she was walking or driving, she would always wear a headset to listen to English words or news.

At around 8:00, Lin Yao arrived at the company. She picked up the product catalog and notebook, then dived into the clothing sample room. She soon became familiar with Lingyun’s products and product-related English vocabulary.

She knew not to bite off more than she could chew, so she only learned in small parts at a time.

At 8:15, Miss Yuan arrived at the company, so Lin Yao came out of the sample room and returned to her seat.

She spent the rest of her time before work rewarding herself. She visited the Hang City Forum every day and didn’t miss a single section. From time to time, she left some words of encouragement and consolation for the sad and depressed people. She also congratulated, as well as told humorous jokes, to those people who were doing okay.

At 8:45, her other colleagues arrived at the company one after another, and Lin Yao immediately closed everything unrelated to work.

At about 9:00, by the time Lin Yun arrived at the company, Lin Yao had already finished checking the emails sent by the customers the night before. She had also sorted out the matters that needed to be dealt with today, so she started her day’s work in an orderly fashion.

Under Lin Yun’s pressure and encouragement, Lin Yao’s progress was obvious to all of them. In the beginning, she refused to open her mouth like a river clam, but then she was gradually able to converse with customers in English. She even bargained with customers under Lin Yun’s watch.

Although she still felt nervous when she received phone calls from foreigners and spoke English in a flustered manner, she had completely abandoned her previous shy mannerisms.

She would also carefully record key words from a customer’s request.

At the end of the call, she would always tell clients that if they could send a fax or email, the boss would pay more attention to their request after seeing it, and she would seek the best deal for them accordingly.

Even though she was basically still telling clients to send emails or faxes, her wording was much more tactful than stiffly telling them to “Please send a fax,” as she had said previously.

This way, the number of mail and fax the company received increased significantly, but Lin Yao simply did this to confirm whether the content she recorded was correct or not.

Then, she would discuss them with Lin Yun and then answer the customers’ requests one by one according to Lin Yun’s instructions.

Sure enough, Lin Yao’s way of handling things not only satisfied Lin Yun’s curiosity about the client’s situation, but it also fully paid respect to her opinions and suggestions. Lin Yun couldn’t find any flaws with Lin Yao’s method.

Since Lin Yao was very efficient at handling emails and faxes and never missed anything, she began to leave a deep impression on the clients. Many clients began to voluntarily ask for her immediate contact information such as her phone number and msn so that she could be contacted whenever a problem arose.

At the same time, the six foreign trade salespeople at Lingyun Industry still remained at the stage of staring at the product catalog and getting familiar with the product.

There was no doubt that Lin Yao had become the busiest person at Lingyun Industry.

Lin Yun was satisfied with this unexpected result, but Lin Yao herself wasn’t satisfied. For her, this was merely the first step towards her ultimate goal!