Mods, please stop telling people that it is. If someone posts a video of someone cheating, and/or names them in their post, this is NOT prohibited by the terms that we have all agreed to when using this forum. Sure, you may have made a post or two about it. But, I neither read nor agreed to "posts". I did read and agree to the Code and Terms.
Here are the only relevant sections in either document that might deal with naming cheaters, and why it doesn't apply.
[b]Code of Conduct[/b]
[u]Stuff That Sucks - Personal attacks, harassment, or violations of privacy.[/u] - This is none of those things. We are not making attacks upon their person, but rather publicly showing their gameplay style. If they were doing nothing wrong, then there would be no problem in it. We are not commenting upon them as a person (race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, etc.). We are pointing out something that they did in the game. In this, it is little different than posting a video of someone running sword on Crota.
[b]Terms of Use[/b]
[u]Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.[/u] - Note that this ends with, "or otherwise violate the legal rights". This means that the terms that come before this clause are also violations of rights. No one would classify posting a video/name abuse, harassment, stalking or threatening. But, is it defamation? Westlaw defines "defamation" as the act of making untrue statements about another which damages his/her reputation. If we have video proof, it is not untrue. Therefore, making such a post is not "defamation".
[u]Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.[/u] - This practice is not inappropriate, profane, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful. And, we've dealt with defamatory.
But, here's the icing on the cake.
[b]Privacy Statement[/b]
[u]If you post any information to a public area of the Bungie Services, Bungie Communities, Forums, or other messaging functionality or social or interactive features that may be provided on the Bungie Services, please be aware that it is no longer “personal information” for the purposes of this Privacy Statement, and we or anyone else may use such information without restriction.[/u] - This specifically says that if a person uses any interactive services (multiplayer is interactive, and therefore included), then anyone may use such information without restriction.
Bungie has specifically and legally give me permission, via a legally-binding document which I agreed to by playing the game, to make posts which include people's PSN/GT and videos of them.
Therefore, moderators, please stop deleting posts that contain this information. These people are CHEATING. They deserve to be banned. In order for that to happen, their actions need to be seen. And, to be seen, their videos must be posted and allowed to be viewed by the masses.
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I have been extremely frustrated with the lag switching and ddos cheating. I also have no sympathy for the cheaters if they are caught and named publicly. However, I recently had an experience that applies to this topic. I was in trials and the load in time between rounds suddenly became much longer than normal (an indication of ddos). We fully expected one of us to be kicked, but when we loaded in, one of their team had been kicked! My team was totally surprised. Then, throughout the rest of the match, the game was massively glitchy. The other team was transporting, sometimes not taking damage, and appearing to be lag switching. ...except for 1 little detail: they couldn't kill us but we could kill them. I realized that to the other team it probably looked like we were lag switching, and/or ddos'ing but we weren't. This made me rethink my views on this sort of thing. If the other team had posted video of that match and I had been receiving hostile messages, it would have been unfair. Video of an event alone simply is not enough to prove cheating. The system bungie uses to host the pvp games is unreliable and extremely susceptible to natural occurrences that look just like ddos'ing or lag switching. We need to push bungie to at least take trials and iron banner to private servers. That is the only way to actually put an end to the cheating.