Hi friends. We did a thing today that warrants a thread because we like to be transparent. VWXYZ has cheated in several games, and because this is his second vio for cheating, he gets a 1-month ban from the lobby.

This is a good time to remind everyone that we do actually have lobby rules, which can be read here:

https://epicmafia.com/topic/74261

And then we have a specific thread for cheating because it's a touchy subject, which can be read here (also linked in the rules thread itself):

https://epicmafia.com/topic/77384

To be specific about why VWXYZ has been banned, he didn't follow this part of the rule:

"For weird borderline things that aren't listed here, it’s the responsibility of the players to ask the host to clarify and make sure what they’re doing is ok."

VWXYZ was using websites that did conversions and solved problems to his advantage in challenges. While these weren't strictly scripts or programs that worked to his advantage (which are outright banned always), he was still at fault in not asking the host for permission to do what he was doing. Normally, we wouldn't jump straight to a ban for that. But in VWXYZ's case, the host actually directly asked him to stop doing what he was doing, which really makes it inexcusable. And he kept going.

So yeah. He's gone for a month. Pls no cheateroni.