Okay, let's get back on topic, please. Advertisements are fine. I know a lot of server ops rely on them, I do too.
Getting back to my ideas. I think it's a little too easy for established communities, big communities with say, over 50k+ member (Which were probably auto-invited) to get around delisting. I mean where is the punishment, really? If you have so many regulars already who you are tricking with fake clients and so many people have you favorited what does delisting really do? New QuickPlay ID and a new IP and your score will be right back up there. This kind of thing requires Valve to continually monitor it. Server operators who get delisted and immediately throw their servers back up with new IDs and Quickplay IDs should be further punished for it. It's no different than cheating only it's done at the server level. Cheats modify or manipulate data in a way Valve didn't intend on the client side. These server operators modify or manipulate data on the server side that goes against the Valve policy of truth. I see it no different. They're cheating the system on the server end and there should be more permanence to the punishments and stricter punishments in general, especially for repeat offenders.
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