When players who were banned for cheating are let back into either of the competition-running lobbies, they should undergo a probationary period during which they lose privacy rights for all accounts, be they linked alts or clean-slate mains. The mods can set up a thread with a list of all accounts held by recently unbanned cheaters and either (a) consistently monitor users who have made the list or (b) install a simple account approval process whereby failure to inform the mods of newly registered accounts constitutes a violation of the rules.
This might be worth a go for any game-related ban, not just cheating, but that would probably involve a lot more maintenance.
No, it's not a good point. There is an abundance of plenty of well-known cheaters who have been able to play games without much hassle. Kerry's making a statistical argument and she's basing it on false statistics that she made up in her head.
Though to be fair no one avoided playing with anthony and it was publicly known he'd cheated in the past.
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Yeah this is actually a good point. The community would have to actively ease some of the stigma towards cheaters, which I don't see happening easily. It's possible though (also possible it could backfire horribly).
It doesn't imply I believe they are very likely to cheat again but it does imply that they are more likely than anyone else to cheat, that they are more likely than anyone else to break other rules, and that it's not fair to me and the rest of the user base to shoulder the discomfort of not knowing which sketchy alt is an unbanned cheater and which is just a run-of-the-mill throwaway alt.
Peta doesn't want to play with people that have previously cheated, which implies he believes that people that have previously cheated are very likely to cheat again.
A publicly available list seems redundant and unnecessary if you can always check people's profiles for the mark, like in a game, which is the only time the information is necessary.
You can't look up whether an anonymous alt has cheated. You managed to miss the chief point of this thread.
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system, i think a lot of your "cheaters are made into subhuman evil people" stems from yourself because that's how you see it. you're the only one spouting dumbass judgement about cheaters as people.
