New Rule: No Sharing Accounts

[Palsgraf]

I propose a new general ENT rule - prohibit users to share accounts.

Such a rule would prevent situations like the one found in this ban appeal: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7051

If we make it a bannable offense -- and make it policy to not lift any bans on IPs or other accounts that resulted from putting a ban on the shared account -- we can make the administration of ENT games easier and more accurate.

For the sake of administrative ease and integrity in the ban process, I think this is an important hardline rule to adopt.

[RESTLESS]

Although I do not deal with bans etc I would have to agree that this could be a valuable rule. By instating this it most definitely would stop the "It wasn't me it was ....... who uses my account" excuse. Since Wc3 accounts are free and stats should be representative of a specific player I do not see why this shouldn't be instated. Being that this is a new rule I would most likely take a while to get around, I would recommend first time offense punishments be lenient before moving to more drastic measures.(Most Ent mods and admins are always fair anyways) Overall I would agree this would help to create a more accurate bans and help stop those who should be banned from slipping through the cracks by attempting to use what they consider a "sly" tactic taking advantage of those who are willing to give the benefit of the doubt.

[NutzSucksHard]

Isn't rule is, if you break a rule, you're banned? It's like sharing your credit card to someone. Take the consequence it came with. WhiteList is there for it. You can whitelist only the username of a said user that get banned cause of the action of an other one. You can always check IP's.

If both live at different place of each other (far away) you may consider to whitelist said user.

[cyberpunk]

It is not common, and not important imo.. so I don't think we should make such rule, if the guy is banned because he shared his account, it's his problem. The case you linked never happened before and I hope we wont see something like that in future.

[Palsgraf]

It is not common, and not important imo.. so I don't think we should make such rule, if the guy is banned because he shared his account, it's his problem. The case you linked never happened before and I hope we wont see something like that in future.

It's happened twice before:
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=6614&p=30385&hilit=friend#p30385
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1549&p=6778&hilit=+friend+using+account#p6778

Plus the one listed in the original post above. A simple brightline rule would prevent these situations from happening again -- we'd be able to be sure that the account we are banning really was responsible for the violation.

[cyberpunk]

lol the second is fake. I met that guy on bnet. offtopic: he wants to meet me personally to show his guns

With or without a rule, it may happen again, It behooves us to reconsider what's right to do.

Edit: The first link is just a guy who was teaching his friend to play on his computer oO Has nothing to do with it.

[teller55]

Cyber you should come over to my house and I'll show you my "guns".

[VirusHunter]

oo oo can i can i! me first lol

[uakf.b]

If they share accounts then they take the risk of getting banned if the person they shared with gets banned, we can handle appeals on case by case basis and make it enough trouble so that sharing is discouraged if you don't trust who you're sharing your account with.

But doesn't seem like we need to disallow it altogether, seeing as how the only way we'll know is when someone appeals anyway probably