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AOCAB Launches

Posted by arsen at 18:19 1/7/2003.

Today sees the start of yet another movement against cheating in CS. The Australian Online Cheating Abolishment Body (AOCAB) has today unveiled it's new website and forums which will home their own anti-cheat system. As you may have guessed, this is an Australian project and not available for us...yet. If the project is successful, they intend to expand into other countries and eventually become an international resource.

Now, you may be wondering how they plan to succeed where many others have failed by preventing the use of cheats in CS. Rather than attempt to explain myself, I'll take the easy way out and quote from their website.

The new AOCAB website provides access to all of AOCAB’s services, as well as information on AOCAB, its members and its operation and policies. Users can now submit a demo of a suspected cheater for it to be reviewed by AOCAB’s professional staff through the ‘submit a cheat’ link on the left. A player can check to see whether their WONID is contained in the AOCAB database by entering their WONID in the submission field on the left hand side of the page and clicking ‘search’. If a player’s WONID is contained in AOCAB’s database, they can request to have the WONID ban reconsidered by clicking the ‘appeal an AOCAB ban’ link on the left. Before users make use of one of AOCAB’s services, they can read about the related policies and rules. These can be viewed through the ‘policies’ menu above, with the linked to pages containing information on how to successfully use the service and outlining what guidelines should be followed.

Similar ideas have been tried in the past with varied success, but a professional setup like this may be the solution to pinpointing and stopping cheats in the long term. Good luck guys!