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Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by amiga-workbench on Saturday April 15, 2023 @01:50PM (#35582842)
One choice would be to price out cheaters. Have people pay a one-off fee for access to a premium tier of multiplayer servers. If you cheat, your access is pulled and you've got to go and spend more money to get back in.

Something Awful did this with their forum and it does a pretty good job at keeping spammers and other irritants out.

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Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by pongo1231 on Saturday April 15, 2023 @02:01PM (#35582949)
Didn't CSGO have something like that with their Prime account status? From what I've seen it didn't really work, people will gladly spend obscene amounts of money for an unfair advantage and/or to ruin other players' fun.
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Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by josephcsible on Saturday April 15, 2023 @01:53PM (#35582869)
This creates a perverse incentive for the cheat detection system to have a lot of false positives.
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