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6 years ago

Cheater, cheating announcement

This post was originally posted by kingyuhi1125 in Japanese so I translated it to English and here's what it says. THIS IS NOT MY IDEA NOR DO I CARE ABOUT IT, I TRANSLATED IT SO HE COULD GET FEED BAC...

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Biochemikas

6 years ago

If a cheater was discovered with absolute certainty he would/should be kicked from the game and banned. If there's no certainty, then publicly calling him out would be utterly irresponsible.

PREDA_LouM

6 years ago

@Biochemikas Works in Battlfield? Plus, I'm in favor of doing this. Publicly shaming hackers is a good thing to do. But then again, I don't think they (hackers) would mind, as most of them haven't hit puberty yet.

Biochemikas
6 years ago
The problem is the times when you're wrong. Publicly accusing some1 of a crime is 100 times worse than banning him wrongly and then removing the ban, all done silently and discretely.
As I said, publicly announcing the "hacker" simply has no use: if you're sure he's hacking, you ban him and kick him from the game - what's the point of announcing anything if that person is completely removed from the picture? And if you're not sure, then publicly announcing something is literally the worst you could do - you could be facing charges for defamation for things like that (I don't think anyone would press charges for ruining their player name, but legally they could).
The only time a public announcement would make any sense if they detected a hacker with certainty but for whatever reason let him finish the game.
ProbablySinning
6 years ago
@PREDA_LouM

I'm with Biochemikas on this one. While publicly shaming hackers seems like a decent idea to discourage cheating, the cases where players are wrong highly diminishes any positive returns.

@DarthValtrex also made a valid point. A system like that would be too easy for trolls to abuse.