There&#039;s nothing you can really do about someone running a DoS attack.&nbsp; I can buy a VPS with bitcoins with more upload than you have download, it&#039;ll cost me $8 USD for an entire month.&nbsp; It&#039;s untraceable.<br /><br />If I&#039;m really enterprising I can just spend $100 to get 12 of them, that way I can use a different IP for each of my games.<br /><br />[quote author=RustInPeace link=topic=631.msg6545#msg6545 date=1331698620]<br />Do I need to remind you [of a lot of stuff]?<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Everyone involved is aware of all of those things.&nbsp; There are two MAD team members on the board, and Bones is in their division.<br /><br />[quote author=RustInPeace link=topic=631.msg6545#msg6545 date=1331698620]<br />Come on guys, you&#039;re supposed to be smarter than this. You should be able to connect the dots on your own.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />This is just one alternate scenario: RustInPeace is a notorious hacker who recently got back into IDL.&nbsp; I don&#039;t like this; I think IDL would be better off if he were banned for life, so I come up with a diabolical scheme to ruin his ass.&nbsp; Every time he plays a div rival, I DoS them from my shitty VPS servers.&nbsp; By the end of the season his entire division is foaming at the goddamn mouth.&nbsp; I not so subtly suggest on the forums and on IRC that RustInPeace was talking to me the other day about how easy it would be to DoS people, and that #idlb should really look into the issue.&nbsp; Mission accomplished.<br /><br />Here&#039;s something else: Xen runs the Powerhouse servers, and has had super balls lag to TT basically ever since we switched servers.&nbsp; It&#039;s entirely possible he&#039;s just running torrents whenever he connects to TT to try and discredit us and get more games played on PH.&nbsp; Of course Xen would never do this (I know this because we are actually DoSing him), but it&#039;s exactly the kind of destructive bullshit that will pop up if we start accusing fellow players of this kind of thing with no proof.<br /><br />You don&#039;t just get to throw people out if you don&#039;t like them.&nbsp; You don&#039;t get to throw them out if they&#039;ve made mistakes (that they&#039;ve owned up to and paid for).&nbsp; You don&#039;t get to throw them out because they have the wrong friends or hang out in the wrong IRC channels.&nbsp; [u][b]This isn&#039;t fuckin ZDaemon[/b][/u].<br /><br />Do I think it&#039;s suspicious all of MAD&#039;s division games involved their opponents experiencing crippling lag?&nbsp; Absolutely.&nbsp; Would I go around irresponsibly starting rumors or making suggestive forum posts?&nbsp; No, because there&#039;s nothing you can do about it without proof, and since there is no proof the only thing I would do is make the community frustrated and paranoid.<br /><br />Finally, the only reason the issue was investigated was that some board members were paying attention and thought the situation was suspicious.&nbsp; Thanks board!<br /><br />Re: Overturning games ===<br /><br />Running a DoS attack on your opponents is cheating, so games would be overturned.