ostfriedel:
...Everyone who uses cheats is a cheater... And that`s the bottom line!
Er, no, it's not.
As I pointed out in an earlier post, tens of thousands of players got inadvertently caught up in this fiasco, and played normal games that then had points applied to the clash. They DID NOT CHEAT, but they still "earned" clash points, just like some of the obvious cheats did.
Yes, the blatant cheats that have been well documented here are guilty, but are they any more guilty than someone who knowingly played one or two rounds to get extra clash points? And how would anyone, in this apparently black and white world, where "Everyone who uses cheats is a cheater" know the difference between a genuine cheat, and someone who inadvertently got awarded points just from playing normally?
They can't; it's as simple as that.
I earned 55 points by this "cheat", but I didn't do it deliberately, it just happened after I played a Bracket - does that make ME a cheat? You don't know. Had I done it deliberately to earn extras, then yes, you could accuse me of that, but you have no way of knowing what was in my mind at the time.
Everyone who uses cheats DELIBERATELY is a cheater; that I can accept, but the bottom line is that you can not tell the difference between deliberate and accidental use in the vast majority of cases.
It really is time to stop this witch hunt - WGT created this mess, and THEIR actions have had unfortunate consequences for all of us. If we must point accusing fingers, then point them at the ROOT of this problem, ie WGT
Let's try to move on.
Steve