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Cheating Investigation Unit

over 10 years

We are looking for a group of community members to be a part of a full-time Cheating Investigation Unit (CIU). We feel that this will streamline cheating investigations, make less work for mods and community members who dedicate their time to it, as well as get more people involved in the community. Our hope is to catch more cheaters and deter people from cheating, as we will be able to use this team as a more vigilant watch.

This will be a team supervised by the mod team. You will be invited to a skype chat where round investigations will be discussed. This will be overseen by myself as well as any mods interested in assisting in handling cheating. We will be your go to people for any information or guidance you may need during the investigative process.

This would largely mean looking through games played and reading games of players near the top of the scoreboard, checking for any instances of rolesharing, meta abuse, multi-accounting or any form of cheating / sketchy play. This would also include making piratepads/pastebins or any sort of documents summarizing the games in question and what the alleged cheater is being accused of. With a sizable team of cheating investigators split between the two lobbies, we can effectively quash cheating more efficiently and prevent things from slipping through the cracks, as well as preventing the round from being paused needlessly.

This position would commit you to various levels of work, depending on demand and whether or not there is cheating present. We are looking for people with a strong interest in catching cheaters, experience in creating pastebins, and an in-depth knowledge of past cheaters and their tells.

If you are interested in being a part of the Cheating Investigation Unit, please copy the following application, fill it out with your info and PM it to me. I'll be accepting applications on a rolling basis and adding people to the team on an as needed basis.

Here is the application questionnaire: PMs not in this format will be ignored.

Name:

Date:

  1. Why do you want to be a part of the EM Round Cheating Squad?

  2. When it comes to cheating, what do you think you're best at detecting?

  3. Have you ever cheated before, and if so, how did you cheat?

  4. Have you done any sort of investigative work before? If so, could you provide some examples of your work?

  5. If there's any other important information we should know about you, please say so here.

over 10 years

pranay7744 says

cant we have sachy as the second admin?


This is what I suggested, Pranay.
over 10 years


I think you're making an incorrect notion that there is supposed to be competition between the staff and community. When it comes to investigating cheating, the 'team' should go beyond the staff.


There shouldn't be, but sometimes people make it out to be that way. When Riot published the bin on rednose/shamzy/devante, I think the general consensus was "Where were the mods on this?"
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it does already. which is why a team specfically devoted to it is silly especially since the mods will go back through all the games. it's a pointless way to give people shine but you know what, if lucid really said he's going to demod anyone "wrong" at a cheating report, then i guess you'll have some sacrificial pawns.
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People only care about cheating now. When it involves their runs.
over 10 years
cant we have sachy as the second admin?
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i'm claiming over 50% of the semi-relevant cheaters caught in the last 6 months.
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thebrontosaurus says


Love says

if people were still doing it without the title then why is having a team to take some of the slack off the mods necessary?

and i agree with sachy, the only good cheater catcher was gira


Honestly because it looks bad when you have a team of volunteer mods and someone outside the team does a major cheating investigation.



lol at anyone thinking being a mod or admin has any incentive other than pouring hours into a community that doesn't appreciate a third of what you do





I think you're making an incorrect notion that there is supposed to be competition between the staff and community. When it comes to investigating cheating, the 'team' should go beyond the staff.
over 10 years

Venus says

With no incentive people will get bored very fast


And if they do, they do. There's no harm in that because this is just extra. I think this is worth a try. It'll be quite a bit more casual than I think I made it out to be tbh
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gistofeverything says

That may or may not be enough for some people to apply.


it wont be.
over 10 years
Not everyone has a heart as big as yours, Bront. :( Wish they did.
over 10 years

Love says

if people were still doing it without the title then why is having a team to take some of the slack off the mods necessary?

and i agree with sachy, the only good cheater catcher was gira


Honestly because it looks bad when you have a team of volunteer mods and someone outside the team does a major cheating investigation.



lol at anyone thinking being a mod or admin has any incentive other than pouring hours into a community that doesn't appreciate a third of what you do

over 10 years
Case in point.
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With no incentive people will get bored very fast
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lol at anyone thinking being a mod or admin has any incentive other than pouring hours into a community that doesn't appreciate a third of what you do
over 10 years
That may or may not be enough for some people to apply.
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if people were still doing it without the title then why is having a team to take some of the slack off the mods necessary?

and i agree with sachy, the only good cheater catcher was gira
over 10 years

Satan says

whats the incentive


Why did I agree to become an admin?

Sometimes it's about doing good rather than getting something out of it.
over 10 years
I'm sure it would be, but you're not giving potential applicants the carrot on a stick you need to light a fire under their ***. Not just everyone has an undying passion for the site like some users (wink wink nudge nudge howl), and I'm sure you could chase out who you want by luring them with things other than just a joint skype call.
over 10 years

Venus says

Still why would anyone want to do it


Non mods usually do cheating investigations, this isn't really that different.
over 10 years
whats the incentive
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Steven says

Not being acknowledged as decent hurts ;-;


Youre ok.
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Venus says

lmfao if arcbell had stayed admin petri would be modded


f u ck
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Still why would anyone want to do it
over 10 years
Not being acknowledged as decent hurts ;-;
over 10 years

Steven says


thebrontosaurus says

they don't get any mod powers or responsibilities other than helping look through games, and if something comes up, launching an investigation.


I think this is why people are saying its so pointless.

I already talked to you about some of the possible issues so I won't reiterate those here, but my initial post saying that it will entirely depend on the people you get rather than the system (cause really it's just getting a bunch of people together system-wise) remains.


Which is understandable, and yeah, the people on the team will matter more so than anything. Your points in our PM conversation are definitely valid.

We'll see what happens. If it's a bust it's a bust. I talked this over with the mods and everyone who looked at it thought it would be a good help.