Valve is not VAC banning you for having a linux username 'catbot'

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Context: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/2475

Strange closing comment. The reddit post says they don't ban using the name, but the closing comment on the Github issue says it's "intentional"...

The exact words of the closing comment are:

> Good day, I've received word from the VAC team that this is intentional and not open for discussion on Github.

"This" referred to the banning of the group of blackhats who subsequently activated many sockpuppets to promote the false narrative that VAC was targeting innocent users.

To understand how and why these miscreants sowed distrust, I encourage reading:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/7nkwb8/statement_fro...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16050009

It was interesting to see several placeholder accounts with zero comments suddenly start concern-trolling here on HN.

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