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raincoletoday at 3:55 AM3 repliesview on HN

The solution is purely cultural. We should collectively think people who cheat online are losers.

(Not being sarcastic.)


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piotrkaminskitoday at 4:44 AM

By and large we do. Unfortunately, the losers don't care unless you identify them personally. For them, the thrill of cheating and griefing others easily overcomes some generalized cultural zeitgeist.

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seanhuntertoday at 7:01 AM

Remember you're living in a world where people idolize Elon Musk, a person who employed someone to play path of exile and diabolo to boost his account (ie a cheater). Also a lot of people don't care (or claim not to care) whether people see them as losers as long as they wreck other folks day.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/01/20/elon-musk-...

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beeflettoday at 7:37 AM

This is a noble lie, because it's really the non-cheaters who are losers. If the cheaters lost then there would be no problem.