man-man Posted:

I think he was referring to how they created a situation where lots of people wanted to exploit the system in a way that didn’t break any officially declared rules, then eventually cracked down on the practice, declared it to be cheating, and retroactively punished a whole lot of people.

Replace “hats at low drop rates” with “INCIT wins”, “idle servers” with “dump submissions” and “taking away items” with “banning” and the TF2 situation is a pretty good parallel really.

Well, it was a 3rd party program spoofing data. Hell I used it even knowing VALVe would probably make a backlash.

On-topic: It’s impossible to know that it’s a copy unless you made a previous one yourself. Will ever new user be banned for typing a generic response that won in the past because they didn’t know any better?