[Nate tha\\\' Great]

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FWIW on the timing thing, at least one of these names has been playing since April, and I have about 3 of them in June. Of the rest I have hands on maybe a little over a half and they start in September. All Party 10/20 and 15/30 because that's where I played before the ban. I don't play as much as most here, and I don't datamine, so I only have 100 hands on each which isn't enough to find a pattern.

I'm still up in the air about the whole thing. Obviously there are going to be a couple of false alarms.

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My guess is that the problem is relatively localized. Perhaps a small group of college kids at a technical school in Germany or Australia. It could even be just one or two people. I don't think that there's some widely distributed bot program available on some Internet backchannel somewhere, and of course, this is one business where advertising carries some real risks.

That doesn't necessarily make things any better, but it does likely mean that the problem would be a bit easier to resolve, if Party were determined to do so.