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Reason for Luke's ban

deletedover 6 years

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:

https://epicmafia.com/topic/86291

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:

https://epicmafia.com/round/594


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:

https://i.imgur.com/Vwjyqix.png

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

https://i.imgur.com/dhv9WYx.png

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.

https://epicmafia.com/round/573

Now look at the lobbies that Luke and his alts play in.

https://i.imgur.com/lp6SM2e.png

https://i.imgur.com/XGN6T9E.png

https://i.imgur.com/7XvgZHK.png

Shortly after he was caught he also tried to delete all the evidence as well. This picture was taken shortly after the investigation was started:

https://i.imgur.com/ebxd4Rp.png

and here is a link to that game now

https://epicmafia.com/game/6332626/review


For added supplement, here are two pastebins that were used during the investigation:

https://pastebin.com/a0yFJMBY

https://pastebin.com/TJi37QrT


Special thanks to The for assistance, he's the real MVP here

deletedover 6 years
but what about a basedgod?
over 6 years

Greninja says

i'm not joking when i say modding is a Sisyphean task without the site owner giving any level of effort. like you're just a janitor for a dump.


there must always be a basedmod
deletedover 6 years
i'm not joking when i say modding is a Sisyphean task without the site owner giving any level of effort. like you're just a janitor for a dump.
over 6 years

Greninja says


Bebop says


Greninja says

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


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)
deletedover 6 years

Bebop says


Greninja says

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
over 6 years
Epicmafia never changes
over 6 years
lmao
deletedover 6 years

Jeff says

sometimes i even cheat on AOL Instant Messenger and ooVoo.


aol instant messenger shut down like 3 days ago
over 6 years

Greninja says

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
deletedover 6 years
the longer this thread goes on the funnier the site moderation becomes
over 6 years

skala says

his tinder profile reads "wanna make 500 epicmafia accounts and chill?"




deletedover 6 years
If I was to report Jeff for OGI right there, would he get the violation?
over 6 years
cloudminnion would have no vio'd this
deletedover 6 years
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.
over 6 years
sometimes i even cheat on AOL Instant Messenger and ooVoo.
over 6 years
i cheat through omegle and facebook messenger
deletedover 6 years

lamentable says

Can we give him a gold for best cheater? Like on a real.


Um no, because he put in all of this effort and still got caught, unlike the people who call each other on skype.
deletedover 6 years
I am also a rolemod, pm me if you need anything
over 6 years

lmao
deletedover 6 years
Can we give him a gold for best cheater? Like on a real.
deletedover 6 years
This rabbit hole just goes deeper and deeper

Even Sammie caught Luke cheating with TONS of accounts

https://epicmafia.com/report/224510

this is batshi't lunacy
deletedover 6 years
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
deletedover 6 years
This mother f'ucker has been cheating for ages, holy cow.

This is his alt account too

https://epicmafia.com/user/637212#/

which was banned for having 8 vios by itself about half a year ago

https://epicmafia.com/report/224165

And even back then he was suiciding on his alts to help himself win

https://epicmafia.com/game/6053612/review

How can you cheat so much and for so long and only maintain a 50% winrate?

https://epicmafia.com/user/535451/statistics
deletedover 6 years
This is hands down the most convoluted cheating on this website of all time.

Skype voice calls are free and easy my man
over 6 years