Onepagebook Lifetime Ban at HWbot

[dsumanik]

The way to solve this problem...no more online submissions...just like any other league, sport, race, or competition, all participants show up to compete on the same playing field, in the same conditions. Then everyone throws down, and someone walks away a winner. How could you hold quakecon remotely and expect no one out there to use a bot..especially when $$$ are at stake, never mind recognition.

As long as people can hide behind the veil of accountability and anonymity in the online world...the worst in human nature will continue to rise to the forefront.

-cheating
-piracy
-trolling
-flaming
-harassment
-thievery
-sexual predators
-fraud
-invasion of privacy
-scams and manipulation

So get in on it while the gettings good!!!!

(and always view those screenies with a grain of salt)

For years I have purchased the highest end hardware availiable based on results from members on forums and review sites...although im not world class, Id like to think know how to go into the BIOS and flick a few switches and eek some more performance out of my system...Over the years, in the majority of cases my personal results on both AMD and Intel hardware have not reflected what I have seen others capable of doing online, or what review sited have posted while using the exact same setups in many cases.

Alot of this is due to hand picked samples, but I am sure every person in this forum has visited a thread with a fake screeny....whether they realize it or not. People are idiots, and alot of guys try to be something thery aren't when online cuz in the real world they just plain suck!

Its all about someone making a buck somewhere, and all you can do to help the situation is just post honest, concise, ACTUALLY STABLE results with your gear.

Perhaps XS should develop a set of requirement you must pass before a screenie can be posted or your thread will get deleted, or a downloadable/encrypted executable that can't be modified. You run it on your system and it posts you a thread automatically with the results.

I.e. 5 hrs linpack stable/3dmark looping or something hardcore like that.

That would seperate the men from the boys, and alot of the BS would dry up pretty quick...