Gold trophy winner of round 675, Luke, was just banned and out of the interest of transparency I'm writing this thread to show you why.
He was deleting games using mod powers that we think were given to him by lailai. Before this, the user K/Cam managed to use an exploit to steal a Survivor lobby trophy that he did not earn:
He was also previously disqualified from round 594 when it was found that his points didn't add up correctly with the games that he had played and that games were also disappearing in his favor:
First it was found that Luke had been kudos farming in a lobby he owned called Oblivion, but after further review a few things stuck out.
Notice that the game list isn’t multiple pages and consists of only two player games including both Cam and K. This means that if this list were accurate then they would be the only players with games in this lobby. Yet upon viewing the Top Scorers list there is an alt of his named coffeeandtealover. This means that he had deleted the games so that they wouldn't show in his lobby and had also deleted all other accounts that were on the top scorer’s leaderboard, thus making his K an Cam accounts not show despite having points. For reference, this is the top scorer list for Survivor lobby:
He had to have deleted at LEAST that many accounts to have K and Cam show.
The more heinous part, also relating to how he managed to steal a trophy from Survivor lobby, is that he was able to delete games. No one other than site moderators can delete games. This means he has exploited the site in some way to gain access to site moderator tools.
Moving on from there, I checked the lobbies that were owned and used by his alt coffeeandtealover
Those are all lobbies owned by him and filled with accounts linked to him. If you want to view more of his lobbies, he owns the rounds 573 through 584 (just that we know of) and you can verify this by clicking below and changing the round number link to anything between those two.
i've been doing this for like 1 year 4 months straight and i do care but there's a lot of even simple things that could be done to improve mod quality of life (second admin, alt checks, etc)
deleteddeletedover 8 years ago
the longer this thread goes on the funnier the site moderation becomes
all the big drama happens when i'm not here so i have to roll up to the threads like 4-5 hours after it's already happened and wonder what's gone on
to be fair i don't even really blame the mods for not caring since most of the site's problems do actually fall 100% on lucid
You can only be caught cheating on epicmafia if you're really exceptionally r*tarded, but it works out because you only cheat at epicmafia.com if you're really exceptionally r*tarded in the first place.
I like epicmafia because sometimes I get bummed out that I can't afford to like travel the world with my youth, but epicmafia presents me with people like these who spend all day devising complex multilayered schemes to win those ~100 colored pixels I got for complaining about my ex-girlfriend
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deleteddeletedover 8 years ago
This mother f'ucker has been cheating for ages, holy cow.