Yawn...Step Count Cheaters

[Secretpeanut83]

Why are there so many cheaters doing the monthly step challenges? Why does samsung allow it? We're 5 days into August and over 1k people have finished, some with over 500k steps! There's no way someone can walk that much in 5 days. 100k steps a day? I don't think so. They should be banned as it makes a mockery of the challenge. I see from other posts that this has been going on for years. Same people every month cheating. Here's theirs compared to mine. I have a job that involves being on my feet for 12+ hours a day and go on long walks of at least 5k several times a week. Still can't get close to 100k steps a day! These people are clearly cheating.

 

 

[Day_Walker]

Bravo!

I wonder if their phones are on some mad crazy agitator or locked into a paint mixer that falsely wiggles the gyroscope giving them these insane steps. The GPS should also be enabled that way peddling on a bike or stair master cannot be used to thrawt the contest either.

[Secretpeanut83]

Agreed. I don't think even a paint mixer would create that many steps though 😂. Using a treadmill counts, it's still walking or running but even then, they'd have to be on it all day which would be impossible. You can always tell the people who are doing the challenge properly, at the moment we're all on about 60-70k steps which is around 10k a day. Totally normal. 

[dcblogdev]

I've noticed the same thing, on September 1st had people at over 800k clearly not possible that quickly.