How were any of my posts above flaming anyone though stony? I just read what he wrote and responded to it in a fair and from what I can tell re-reading it also a pretty polite way.

The idea is my making the case why cheaters should not have their identities protected and if it's a strong case maybe you'll put some pressure to bear on qzjul and martian to change the policy which I find to be wrong-headed. I never said anything was your fault. I thought part of the purpose of this thread being created was for people like me to bring up things we find nutso.

My country specifically has been wronged by cheaters multiple times in the past with me never finding out who they were. Cheaters will many times topfeed or group kill or do other things before being deleted, with their victims not knowing who the abuser was in those cases either. These reasons for cheaters being revealed still stand.

And, while you're right that I showed being made known doesn't dissuade some serial cheaters like h2o, that doesn't mean it's not effective in putting a disincentive on cheating. One example I can give you is Seth, who was deleted in Express probably 8 or 9 times before finally the connection was made that this is the Mr. Titanium who has a high profile in Alliance. Once that was revealed, he didn't get caught cheating in Express again. Further, what of the people who have been deleted whose identities are still a mystery? My examples don't have anything to say about cases like those.

What my examples do universally speak to is that players don't abandon their nicks after being revealed to have cheated. I can't think of one player, ever, who went purple, and whose identity came out, who retired that account after that round.