First off, many people wonder why cheating accusations aren't allowed on the forum. The reason for this is simple: A game should be self-contained. A player (guilty or not) should never be expected to defend themselves on the forum. That is metagaming to the fullest extend. Furthermore, non-mods do not have access to the information we do, meaning that often times people are falsely accused.

People also wonder why we do not like exposing cheaters to be ridiculed. Kestas has made it clear that he wants punishments to be delivered by the mods, not the community-at-large. Public ridicule is not controllable by the mods.

Finally, when at all possible, we try not to ban accounts. We can keep track of players that have cheated in the past and do a better job monitoring them in the future. If we ban a player, there is nothing stopping them from making a new account (well, there is, but we don't do it often). It is actually better to let a cheater keep their old account so we can monitor them.

This is the same reason we don't put scarlet letters on cheaters. Why would the play with a branded account when they could easily make another? It would make our job enormously more difficult if every cheater remade their accounts.

Now, this doesn't mean we never ban accounts. We actually do it quite often, but we only do it when the situation calls for it and after we are sure of the player's guilt and their refusal to follow the rules in the future.


Hopefully, this has helped cleared up why we handle cases the way we do. As I've said numerous times before, we never discourage criticism/suggestions, but we do ask you don't refer to specific cases, for the reasons presented above.