Eddy Hoole
What’s the status on the exploit bounty promised by the CEO of Zwift?
We’ve already confirmed that we’re not running an exploit bounty (Eric posted on here some months back).
I know I just like to bring it up as a failure by Zwift to do something they promised to do.
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We all like a good moan at some of the things going on around here, but your tone is so antagonistic it is completely counter-productive.
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Sorry about the tone. I’m frustrated by the complete lack of action or transparency, on top of outright lying by the CEO.
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Can you comment on what it takes to get banned from the platform? Because apparently blatantly cheating on a major stage doesn’t do it.
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The way he casually drinks his cup of coffee with 0 second to go, that’s absolutely brilliant! 
It’s too much of a pixels scramble to be able to read but it seems regular racers were not happy with his style; a shame! 
Poetic pedal mechanics. Glad he didn’t let the haters disrupt his workout. They’re just jealous, Kara!
come TURKEY drink tea Team 
He’s definitely legit
Can I bring you an accurate trainer if I come to Turkey?
Never a dull moment
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my youtube channel kara kaplan
You are what we call an asshat
Fight fight fight
Dropout
My lungs dropped out
I think the important takeaway is that you need to average 800 watts for 15 minutes to get coned. Eddy can step up his game.
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If you suspect someone of cheating please use the proper channels.
See Zwift Support
“Proper channels” do nothing. I was doing as @James_Zwift requested. Please read threads instead of defending cheaters.
Funny that @Gerrie_Delport_ODZ is “the community” though. Figured this message was wrong.
@James_Zwift didn’t ask you to post on the forum.
Accusing people of cheating on the forum is again the community guidelines.
He didn’t ask for it in a PM.
Maybe if there were less than zero transparency about cheaters people would trust that reporting to support would result in more than nothing happening. Given the Eddy Hoole situation it’s pretty understandable that people are distrustful of Zwift removing cheaters.
Suggestions for a starting place:
A report with number of people reported and number determined to be cheating
Broken down by method of cheating
Broken down by consequences
I’ve asked before, I’ll ask again: what’s it take to get banned from the platform?
“Community Guidelines” link is broken FYI
This is generally not a good idea as it can draw attention to the means to cheat, encouraging others to do so.
Disagree, though that was ZHQ’s attitude when they banned Luciano for publicly pushing Zwift to fix a long standing exploit they had tried to brush under the rug. They can broad-stroke the types of cheating to avoid giving too much detail.
Idea, to show they’re serious about fixing exploits ZHQ could implement a bug bounty and pay people to report exploits to counter that problem.
Disappointing that Zwift is officially discouraging discussion around addressing cheating by having their volunteer moderator put this thread in slow mode.
It could also be a deterrent, telling people which types of cheating they should not try because they may be detected and punished. That does not seem like a bad thing. It would also increase legitimacy of racing, which would improve customer satisfaction among those who race, and improve the company’s reputation. Even if it were vague on the details and didn’t share names of the sanctioned riders, they could still say “We automatically detected 73 cases of height manipulation. Offenders were given racing bans of 6-12 months and forfeit race results.” Do you think that would increase the number of people who change their height before entering a race?
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No one cares if someone is doing 1000W in a FREE RIDE but if that someone wants to enter any PUBLIC Event i wan’t him locked out. @DavidP mentioned in another topic that it’s hard to say what’s a good and bad power reporting…but i will say it again for RACING i want/need the option that only people with Controllable Trainer Connected can ENTER. This will FIX 99% of the problems with Spinbikes and other bad reporting equipment.
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Then you will be excluding every one on rollers with a PM also everyone with a PM on a dumb trainer.
It should also only apply to A+ because there is no upper limit.
It should not matter for BCD categories if CE is used.
What I would like to see is if someone is using a Ebike or some emulator in races that once reported they will only be able to do open races.
I want to have it as an option to TURN IT ON as a Race Organizer.
Now we have Enforce noZPower and Enforce HRM and i would love to get Enforce Controllable.
This is on organizers discretion to use.
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