I totally agree, anyone who wants F7Lans' SourceBans file is free to ask. We have about 1000 people (not including that may be added after I add any these groups), and we have had our fair share of accidental bannings. People come on our forum, ask why they are banned, and get told it's because you were a member of this hacking Steam group. We tell them to leave the groups and the either 1.) bitch and ragequit, and they stay banned, or 2.) they leave and we unban them.
I regularly re-ban the bigger groups like g0ts so if someone gets added twice, we won't lift the ban. On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 02:57 +0100, Donnie Newlove wrote: > Promoting cheating by linking to cheater groups with additional links > to downloads or stores from your steam profile, being a member in a > self proclaimed cheater clan or being in a "hater group" about some > cheater that only other cheaters hanging around in the same cheating > forums and cheating servers which most of the members can be tracked > back to by simply looking in random members profiles profile is good > enough for me. I am fairly certain that the groups I linked to consist > of 99% bad players and 1% players that were dumb enough to join by > mistake or just did not think at all in which case they probably > deserved it. > > Anyway, if this is right or wrong is not worth to discuss, everyone > can do what they damn please. > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:46 AM, msleeper <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wish there was some sort of global SourceBans list. SteamBans is > > alright but they require stuff like "proof" and "reasonable cause", and > > being on the friends list of the Officers of the g0ts group apparently > > isn't good enough for them. > > > > Nice list, I'll have a look through them and probably add a few. > > > > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 02:37 +0100, Donnie Newlove wrote: > >> Having updated SourceBans to the latest version I wonder what I would > >> ever need to ban groups from the web interface, but after looking > >> around for an hour at the steamcommunity I found that it was quite > >> useful for proactive banning since I now have over 1000 new bans of > >> known cheaters (and I am also quite astounded, I would not dare to > >> dream about people being this dumb). > >> > >> I started off simply by searching for "hacking" and such and checking > >> admins at the groups, random members, friends of the most active ones, > >> groups with many VAC banned members, members that were part of many > >> suspect groups, etc. Here are most groups I found with admitted > >> cheaters and troublemakers. It appears as if there were mostly CS:S > >> players but also a lot of CS, TF2 and L4D. Please post more useful > >> links if you find any. Peace out. > >> > >> > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/gangster-strike > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/dasdwasdwa > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/103582791430166586 > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/g0ts > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/phoenix-hacks > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Project-7 > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ELITESAUCE > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/omegacheaters > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/rolexfailshardlol > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/furyon-hackers > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/cheat_project > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/haxorzzz > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/udown > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/x22shop > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/360-hacks > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/vip-master > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/unlimitedhackers > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/theg0t > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Hack-Sector > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ethug > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Angel-Hacker > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/hardcorehackers > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/4567319757432567564347 > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/elextronic-hackers > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/GodlikeHackers > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Infinity-Hackers > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/hardcore-hackers > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Deutscheprohackers > >> > >> And this guy selling exploits and... yeah, you already know. He got a > >> fan club, but I can't view the members. Anyway, hurry up before these > >> maggets understand what is going on, this is just to easy to last. > >> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/103582791430217890 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > >> please visit: > >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
