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From Bungie.net:
"Anonymous Coward asks,
Is boosting cheating? And will I get banned for it?
Yes. As a matter of fact, you were actually stupid enough to include your Gamertag in this message, but by the time I'd checked, you had already been banned for matchmaking forever, because you'd already served out a seven day suspension and learned nothing from it. We're banning like crazy now, because we have better tools for detecting it. Boosting, for the non-cheaters amongst you, is the practice of "fixing" games so you play with your similarly idiotic buddy and artificially increase each others' rank. It sticks out like a sore thumb in our system kids. So QUIT DOING IT. And also, quit whining to me about your banning. I don't care. I look at the stats for every whiner email I get and they ALWAYS turn out to be a cheat. "It was my brother….waaah." Well, even if it was your alleged brother, your account is being used to ruin everyone's experience. So bye-bye."
Another good one:
On a Halo 2 'snipers only' game one american kid shouts "I took down the sniper!"
....
Guy on Rainbow Six 3 charges across the bottom of Warehouse as grenades land about him:
"Don't worry guys we'll definately make it this ti--"
Entire team bursts into laughter.
American kid:
"Yeah we beat you guys in the war of independence like 2000 years ago"
All that happens is everyone goes to their Live options and mutes the guy. So really, no one takes any notice.
Then obviously the host kicks him.
But surely they have better things to do?
From Bungie.net:
"Anonymous Coward asks,
Is boosting cheating? And will I get banned for it?
Yes. As a matter of fact, you were actually stupid enough to include your Gamertag in this message, but by the time I'd checked, you had already been banned for matchmaking forever, because you'd already served out a seven day suspension and learned nothing from it. We're banning like crazy now, because we have better tools for detecting it. Boosting, for the non-cheaters amongst you, is the practice of "fixing" games so you play with your similarly idiotic buddy and artificially increase each others' rank. It sticks out like a sore thumb in our system kids. So QUIT DOING IT. And also, quit whining to me about your banning. I don't care. I look at the stats for every whiner email I get and they ALWAYS turn out to be a cheat. "It was my brother….waaah." Well, even if it was your alleged brother, your account is being used to ruin everyone's experience. So bye-bye."
Another good one:
On a Halo 2 'snipers only' game one american kid shouts "I took down the sniper!"
....
Guy on Rainbow Six 3 charges across the bottom of Warehouse as grenades land about him:
"Don't worry guys we'll definately make it this ti--"
Entire team bursts into laughter.
American kid:
"Yeah we beat you guys in the war of independence like 2000 years ago"