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Caboose: If I was bitten by one, does that mean I'll turn into one?
Church: Shut up Caboose.
Caboose: BLAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRG....
Church: SHUT..UP..CABOOSE!
Quoted from the Weekly Update:
The Blood-caked Super Hammer
We hinted at this in the past, and discussed it more directly last week, but the Banhammer has a new edge to it, and its effectiveness has left Jedi reeling from the feeling of thousands of voices shouting at once and then falling silent. If you are unfamiliar with the Banhammer, I strongly urge you to read http://www.bungie.net/ban. The newest touches on the Banhammer include the ability to recognize behavior consistent with cheating and apply a ban to the gamertags and 360s responsible. Let's clear that up because a lot of people have misconceptions about what the banhammer is doing.
1. We're not banning you for winning.
The Banhammer observes behavior, not results. You're not going to get banned because you won 30 games in a row and got experience for each of those games. If you aren't cheating, you can continue to destroy your opponents without worry. If you are cheating, throwing a game or two isn't going to save you from the Banhammer's ire.
2. We're not banning you for playing with your friends.
We can tell when someone's actually using the controllers you've plugged into your 360. More importantly, we can tell when someone isn't. Filling a party with guests that are not actual players and then going into social matchmaking is not okay. If you don't want to play with randomly matched players, go in with a full party of friends (not the invisible kind), or don't go in at all.
3. We ban for behavior, not intent.
It doesn't matter to us whether you were trying to get Alas Poor Yorick or if you were trying to get your general in DLC FFA. Boosting is not acceptable.
4. Take it up with your brother.
If an account is caught EXP boosting, the entire 360 is banned from EXP for two weeks. We will not un-ban someone because their brother, or cousin, or neighbor, or roommate, or grandma was the one that did the cheating. All users share equal responsibility.
5. Quitting: Only in moderation
There are plenty of totally valid reasons to quit. For example, if you're on fire. Or, if your mother is on fire. Or, even if your dog is setting your mother on fire. However, these things come with statutes of limitations. For quitting, if you do it so often that we recognize it as bad behavior, you're risking the wrath of the Banhammer.
6. We don't mess around with Ranked.
If you're boosting in ranked, you don't just get an EXP ban: You get a temporary ban from matchmaking, meaning you can ONLY play custom games or co-op until your ban has ended.
7. Booters, standbyers: You're next.
You know that warning that's been in Matchmaking for some time? The one that says "Cheating is being autodetected?" It wasn't kidding. We've got your behaviors down, too. If you wish to continue playing Halo online, I suggest you knock off the crap. The punishment coming your way is far more severe than what boosters are getting.
If You Get Banned...
Way to go. Don't mean to sound cruel, but if you were banned it was likely your own fault. If someone else on your machine was who got banned, you'll want to give them a stern talking to, but don't take it up with us. You're welcome to try to contest the ban by either messaging me discreetly on Bungie.net or posting to the stickied thread in the Halo 3 forum, but keep in mind we are just going to look at your stats and point out to you what you did wrong. Nobody (despite some of the self righteous that are trying to suggest otherwise) have been "wrongfully" banned or banned for "no reason." With that out of the way, keep in mind that if you're banned for boosting in Social, you are banned specifically from earning EXP for two weeks. That's the first offense. The second offense is... Harsh. How harsh? I'll put it this way: don't get banned a second time.
Just in some people don't read the front page.