Today 90,000 accounts were banned for smurfing in Dota 2 and now every community hub is filled with people trying to justify their behavior to get out of a ban.
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accounts that have been found to be smurf accounts, which are typically accounts players will make to allow them to play at a lower skill level. Since then almost every major Dota 2 community hub, especially the sub-Reddit, has been filled with people either trying to justify their smurfing or claiming they never did, and it’s hilarious to finally see these people get some punishment.
Going forward, any main account that is found to be associated with a smurf account will get some kind of punishment, that can be as small as adjustments to your behavior score through to outright account bans. The smurf ban wave comes alongside a brand new behavior and reporting system which launched earlier this week with. Those changes were generally well-received by the community and are already paying off, just today I was notified for the first time that someone I had reported for being toxic had been punished.
However, the response to the smurf bans has been pretty different, mostly because all the smurfs seem to be complaining. Thesub-Reddit is currently full of posts of people getting banned, or being warned against smurfing, who are trying to justify why they had to smurf so shouldn’t be banned, or claiming they never smurfed in the first place.
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