Users Removed

[hrcho]

About 10 minutes ago something weird happened on GCCG. 10 user accounts have been removed consecutively.

User account Andros removed.
User account Bulgarina removed.
...brwey... Linucran... mogadishu...MshiniWam... Drizzt...slam...kapela...101

Does anyone know why and how this has happened? I suppose administrators have something to do with it, but it's still puzzling as to why would they remove those accounts.

[ket_the_jet]

Probably cheating. Starting games, declaring win/loss, and pocketing cash or promos.
-wtk

[hrcho]

Probably cheating. Starting games, declaring win/loss, and pocketing cash or promos.
-wtk

That's not allowed?!?!

Oops!

[Witchkingx5]

Good job wlk!

[rubbercarp]

Probably cheating. Starting games, declaring win/loss, and pocketing cash or promos.
-wtk

I've never played on GCCG... is there a reward system for winning games?

[ket_the_jet]

You get game money which can be used to purchase packs or cards. While you can play a game with any card, if you play a game without stand-ins, you get a promo after each completed game.
-wtk

[hrcho]

I've just seen 2 of the users (Andros and kapela) that were previously removed online on GCCG. They are starting from square one, though, since they have no money except for the starting 100$ and no games played. I assume they were allowed to return.

I also noticed that God is back.

[macheteman]

an e-promo as it were...

[itjunkie]

they were pruned because of inactivity...same way members keep getting kicked out of tlhh heheheh just kidding:)

[MR. Lurtzy]

they were pruned because of inactivity...same way members keep getting kicked out of tlhh heheheh just kidding:)

Ha I was probably one of those, then.

[hrcho]

they were pruned because of inactivity...same way members keep getting kicked out of tlhh heheheh just kidding:)

Nope, some of these players were quite active.

[Kralik]

Active like:

Wow! 250 games in the past three days!
Total earnings: $$$$$$

I'm just speculating.

[hrcho]

Active like:

Wow! 250 games in the past three days!
Total earnings: $$$$$$

I'm just speculating.

Mayhaps. I don't really know why they got pruned and why some of them got back (with clean sheet account) and while some of them really seemed the type to cheat around, the others were just normal players, as far as I know.

[wlk]

All those users have cheated at some time (I can catch cheaters in log file for several months so don't assume it was some recent behavior).
Too bad if they have played fairly at a later time, it was not fair to honest players anyway.
No harm except having to collect fairly from the beginning.

And don't come with some lame excuse, I only wipe users with obvious cheating.