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Originally Posted by pkrboss888
He is saying that he worked for pokerstars security 4/5 years ago, and helped create rules to ban the use of seating scripts, and ghosting in MTTs.
I only included the disclaimer so that I didn't get accused of being some sort of secret shill. Normal people appreciate a bit of honesty and transparency.
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Meanwhile people still ghost in MTTs and the only defense against seating scripts is to remove the option to choose your seat (something implemented after he left the team).
I don't really disagree with any of that. Seat scripting wasn't - to my knowledge - an issue at PokerStars back when I left the Game Security team in 2012.
The point I was making was very simple: "Ghosting has never been permitted by PokerStars. Some confusion arose many years ago when Lee Jones (I think it was while he was at Cake Poker? I do not recall exactly, but it was sometime between 2005 and 2010) published an article about "one player to a hand". Some players mistakenly understood that article as a comment that there was no such prohibition at PokerStars."
Certainly people have tried to cheat at online poker, and it was prohibited at PokerStars a long time ago. It was not their policy to abolish their rule because they were incapable of enforcing it. That might now be the policy, I don't know- you would need to contact them.