Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked

Re:Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google acc... by daemin on Monday February 08, 2021 @07:11AM (#26063446)

I heard on a podcast recently that a trading system needs to keep logs of why a particular trade was executed for several years just in case the authority wants it. So it isn't too much effort to build a similar report or log of behaviour to explain why someone was banned.

Obviously this will also help the spammers who will use this information to get around the filters.

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Re:Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google acc... by gibspaulding on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:13AM (#26063956)

Complete speculation because I don't actually know how this works, but I wonder if the explanation would be something like this:

"You've been banned because our black box ML algorithm says your usage patterns share similar traits to those of known spammers."

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Re:Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google acc... by BlueTemplar on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:44AM (#26065110)

Some government decisions are indirectly forbidden from using black box "algorithms" because they are obligated by law to explain (on demand) the steps that the algorithm took to reach its decision. Maybe something like this should also apply to some private companies ?

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Re:Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google acc... by p410n3 on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:54AM (#26064426)

Thats kinda what the PayPal support told me when I asked why half of my in-store payments via Google Pay get rejected.

Most were payments of about 2€ in the same store next to work.

Whatever I dont use it anymore

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Re:Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google acc... by daemin on Monday February 08, 2021 @07:45AM (#26063719)

Podcast link: https://www.twoscomplement.org/, I think it was the latest episode.

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