ELO Bans on DestinyTracker.com

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A Message by Xorth

Greetings Guardians!, There was a thread a couple weeks ago where OP got screwed in Trials by cheaters. I commented on that thread and said I'd love to look into this and find anyway to punish these guys. I fully understand that not every cheater out there is doing it for Elo. They all have their reasons. Regardless of their reasons, we want fair, clean leaderboards. And if these guys do care about that, they're not gonna be big fans of these changes...

We have banned roughly 650 players from our Elo leaderboards. They will no longer acquire new Elo, get ranked, or show up on our leaderboards. This wave of bans targets DDOS type of cheating.

Without going into too much detail, we look for patterns in matches where teams are winning often via the other team "leaving" the match. Looking through this data, patterns jump out of the screen at you. So we conservatively banned 650 for now.

We will study this data weekly and continue to ban baddies. We hope this will reduce how often it happens, but no way will it stop it. Many people submitted confirmed cheaters to my inbox, and I verified that those people got bans in our automated sweep.

Lastly, if you are cheated by these players, we try reduce or negate your Elo losses. We're still working on perfecting that piece, it's tough because Elo was never designed to handle cheaters.

Finally, we tentatively plan on starting Season 2 of Elo when D2 starts it's Season 2. We'll do a full reset and the cheaters will be banned for Season 2 as well*. All of this is subject to change but that's the plan!*

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Thanks! PS: Don't witch hunt. Let us use the data to ban baddies.

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