The problem with just using the ban hammer approach alone is that we always allow everyone to withdraw regardless of what they were banned for. I need to speak to wetsuit to understand his reasoning for doing that. But it means the bots don't lose anything and just make new accounts to start again.
This I also don't understand. It should be logique that whenever you find a person using a botnet or cheating and you ban them that he loses all his earnings. By still paying out these banned members they will keep on creating new accounts etc...
I've haven't had a chance to talk to wetsuit about this yet but I've been thinking about it. The last time some people got blocked some idiot was posting in the other thread telling everyone to withdraw all the money as they would lose it if they got banned. I had a very easy answer, we only ever block users from using the faucet, nothing else. So I suppose it does really help with building trust and confidence.
I *think* with the botnets it is a case of trying to catch and block them before they get to minimum withdrawal. That's part of the reason we're unlikely to reduce the 30k sat limit.
Right, I forgot about that there is a minimum withdrawal
Unfortunately you will always have trolls that want to ruin a site even though freebitco.in is one of the oldest and must reputable sites online.