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Why would you set your username to the name of a known cheat though? And if you are VAC banned because of it, you can still play your games on non official ser

Why would you set your username to the name of a known cheat though? And if you are VAC banned because of it, you can still play your games on non official servers. "Less evil DRM" if you will.

stordoff 9y ago
Why would expect users to know the names of all known cheats though? If someone created a bot called, say, "VerseC", I doubt you'd be thrilled if that resulted in you being banned. I also suspect the crossover between cheat names and gamer user names is high - "catbot" would not look at all out of place in a list of user name.
- paulmd 9y ago
  Anyone who's still playing TF2 at this point has a pretty good idea of the names of the various bots at this point, because they spam them in chat while they're running. GET GOOD GET LMAOBOX has ruined many a session for me, and I would never think of using 'lmaobox' as a username. Even if you aren't actually hacking, that's a quick route to the other denizens of the server votebanning you. Nor would I ever dream of using it as a system user. I think the context you and most other people are missing here is that these bots are a fucking plague on what remains of the TF2 community and we're more than willing to have zero tolerance for anything connected to them.
  - stordoff 9y ago
    A) The cheat may post-date your choice of username. Even if you're aware of the name (and thus avoid using it in-game), you probably wouldn't change (or even think to change) a long standing system username. B) Non-TF2 players probably _aren't_ going to be aware of TF2 cheat names. A CS:Source player may not know of them, as it's not their game, but the same VAC ban covers both CS:S and TF2 (FWIW I play CS:S occasionally and have never seen such ads. there). I understand that it is a major issue (it's one of the reasons I haven't returned to TF2 in a while), but that's not a great reason to accept a poor solution that could effect innocent users.

Why would you set your username to the name of a known cheat though? And if you are VAC banned because of it, you can still play your games on non official servers. "Less evil DRM" if you will.

stordoff 9y ago

Why would expect users to know the names of all known cheats though? If someone created a bot called, say, "VerseC", I doubt you'd be thrilled if that resulted in you being banned. I also suspect the crossover between cheat names and gamer user names is high - "catbot" would not look at all out of place in a list of user name.

paulmd 9y ago
Anyone who's still playing TF2 at this point has a pretty good idea of the names of the various bots at this point, because they spam them in chat while they're running. GET GOOD GET LMAOBOX has ruined many a session for me, and I would never think of using 'lmaobox' as a username. Even if you aren't actually hacking, that's a quick route to the other denizens of the server votebanning you. Nor would I ever dream of using it as a system user. I think the context you and most other people are missing here is that these bots are a fucking plague on what remains of the TF2 community and we're more than willing to have zero tolerance for anything connected to them.
- stordoff 9y ago
  A) The cheat may post-date your choice of username. Even if you're aware of the name (and thus avoid using it in-game), you probably wouldn't change (or even think to change) a long standing system username. B) Non-TF2 players probably _aren't_ going to be aware of TF2 cheat names. A CS:Source player may not know of them, as it's not their game, but the same VAC ban covers both CS:S and TF2 (FWIW I play CS:S occasionally and have never seen such ads. there). I understand that it is a major issue (it's one of the reasons I haven't returned to TF2 in a while), but that's not a great reason to accept a poor solution that could effect innocent users.