Why would they take the effort to cover up your imagination?

Let me get this straight. Crappy users run amok and ruin a game, and that's a scam and dishonesty by Valve?

If a user gets VAC banned and that account can no longer play VAC enabled games, what more does Valve need to do? How is that ignoring it? What do you want to happen?

Deleting unhinged malcontent rants is not covering things up. Letting more users run amok in a different way doesn't benefit anything or solve the core problem.

Kinda seems like you blame Valve for not finding a solution to the human condition. And you ignore the limits of keeping goobers off a platform where creating accounts is free and easy, and from playing a free to play game. Valve can't actually make people play a game to your approval standards. They can't predict or prevent behavior, they can only ban people after they've broken the rules. That may not always happen based on your opinions or timeline.

So not a scam, not dishonesty, not covering things up. Just not letting unhappy users run amok on the forums. Valve doesn't owe you a soapbox.

There is a basically a war against cheaters in any online game, not just ones that steam made. Basically for every new cheat detection program, a hacker out there is making a new one to bypass the cheater program. Then they sell it to script kids to cheat in games. Yes, it is a war as it is always happening behind the scene. It is not a scam. It is how the world is nowadays.Just like how the us did the war on drugs in the 1990's. They will never win it, and neither will the anti cheat programs as long as society thinks to do things like this.

Smurfing isn't exactly a controllable thing. Also Anticheats need to know something is a cheat in order to issue a ban. Also VAC and Game Bans mean they can no longer play Multiplayer on VAC Secured Servers of the game they are banned from. They are not being dishonest or covering anything up. It's a cat and mouse game with cheaters.

"The biggest scam and dishonesty by Valve..." says the person with an economy ban and banned from the Dota 2 forum...