Cheating and Cheaters
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2 years ago
United States

I think a thread like this has already been made but who cares, it's worth bringing back

https://www.speedrun.com/mcbe/thread/5cuo8 here's a good start, the list of banned players from Minecraft: Bedrock Edition

Gaming_64, Act_ and 5 others like this
Japan

[quote] The penalty for cheating should be immediate (but not irreversible) removal of all runs, public shaming, and being banned from submitting runs ever again. [/quote] While it's obvious that cheating definitely isn't cool, I feel like the punishments that you are suggesting are a little overkill. There have been cheaters in the past who admitted to cheating and after they did they started speedrunning legitimately; what you're suggesting would get rid of these people that want to redeem themselves as well. [quote] This way, the burden of figuring out which of the cheater’s runs are legit does not fall to game moderators [/quote] Most cheaters don't cheat every run that they submit, they only cheat one or a few at most before getting caught, so while it is fair to ban them for cheating it's not fair to also discredit them from every run they ever submitted without checking if they're legit or not.

YUMmy_Bacon5, RetroPacman and 4 others like this
New South Wales, Australia

@DreamWasTaken Cheating for content

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YUMmy_Bacon5, landus and 4 others like this
French Southern Territories

@timbos468 is the only person I've caught intentionally cheating in any of the games I mod. He cheated by using mods to improve his times. He was caught, given a second chance, and then got caught cheating in another game. I don't know if he still speedruns, but I would advise people to be very careful when examining his runs. I don't believe any of the runs on his profile currently are faked, I rejected all of the suspicious times.

YUMmy_Bacon5 likes this
Australia

public shaming?

bro. relax.

YUMmy_Bacon5, JulianTexo and 2 others like this
French Southern Territories

They did something wrong, and unless there is some kind of moderator forum made then there is nothing better to do.

European Union

[QUOTE=diggity] public shaming?

bro. relax. [/QUOTE] If you don't want to be publically shamed, don't fucking cheat lol. I think this is great. If a top runner of one of my games randomly gets permabanned I do not want to need to spend the next year of my life arguing with site admins to find out why he was banned only to get literally nowhere.

YUMmy_Bacon5, HopeTrash and 14 others like this

cheaters should be marked.

easy as that.

HopeTrash, Wrap, and Ivory like this
Japan

[quote] In the system I am proposing if a cheater is unbanned, their runs are reinstated. [/quote] Sounds good in theory but in practice it might be hard to achieve that, since the code would have to check for every user, find if they are banned, then check if the reason was for cheating, and either hide their runs or delete them temporarily (in which case they might be vulnerable to losing their account altogether because of name changing). Then, if they get unbanned, the code has to again check for every user and see if there was anyone banned specifically for cheating that isn't banned anymore, and only then it can unhide the runs. I think that might be pretty tedious to program if you ask me.

YUMmy_Bacon5 likes this
Japan

[quote] cheaters should be marked. easy as that. [/quote] That could work, but what I would "prefer" instead (from one point of view) is that moderators or Super Mods of a game or series to get the ability to ban a user from their leaderboard and/or series (not just reject every run they submit, that isn't really banning) so that the person doesn't get the chance to submit runs anymore. Then, after the said user gets banned, it would show on their profile in the Info tab or whatever that they are banned from the X leaderboard for the reason of cheating (or any other reason). But again this is another suggestion that in theory it sounds good but in practice not so much.

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virgin leaderboard mod collection vs chad leaderboard ban collection

YUMmy_Bacon5 likes this
Japan

Pretty much yeah.

YUMmy_Bacon5 likes this
Valhalla

Leaderboards operate primarily on trust. Cheating breaks that trust. A cheater left to continue submitting runs is invalidating all leaderboards they get accepted to. Even if someone cheated ONCE. YEARS AGO. THEY WERE REEEEEEEEALLY SORRY, and were never "caught" again, it's still not enough. Too many runs can be cheated with no one ever knowing. This is why verification is more a formality for checking that rules are being followed. Sure sometimes a mod will catch a cheated run, but the fact that WRs have stood for years in the past and never got caught shows that it's easy to get away with. Break that trust, you shouldn't be allowed to submit runs.

If they're just really passionate about speedrunning, and doing so legitimately and competitively, they can still do so without ruining a leaderboard for everyone else. Or they could submit under a different account (not that I condone this, but it's an option). They would never take that route because just like they cheated in the past for clout, they would feel the need to run "legit" for clout as well. Unfortunately there's no way around it. If you want to submit to leaderboards as yourself, don't cheat. I've been saying this for years now. I'll just refer to this post in the future should it ever come up again.

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YUMmy_Bacon5, 6oliath and 2 others like this

[quote]Last I checked, individual leaderboard bans weren't a thing, are they now?[/quote] You mean that they aren't allowed, or that there aren't any leaderboards that do this? Because there are definitely some leaderboards that do, such as smb1.

YUMmy_Bacon5 and Walgrey like this
Japan

I'm just going to refer to my post from a thread I made a few weeks ago as I find that to be probably the best solution to all of this. [quote=Hi] Instead of getting banned from the website as a whole, what if you could separate getting banned on the forums from getting banned from submitting runs? what could be done instead is ban that person just from the forums while allowing them to still submit runs, and viceversa too; if there's a player that cheated in the past they should get banned from the leaderboards but still be allowed to talk on the forums. [/quote] A cheater, while breaking the moderators' trust, doesn't deserve to be put in a read-only state forever in my opinion, I feel like that's just a little too much.

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YUMmy_Bacon5 likes this
United States

[quote] A cheater, while breaking the moderators' trust, doesn't deserve to be put in a read-only state forever in my opinion, I feel like that's just a little too much. [/quote]

No they should

Gaming_64, Act_, and YUMmy_Bacon5 like this
Japan

Did Dream get banned on the entire website? No. Did he cheat (at least) 2 runs in RSG? Yes.

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