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@drobbinsjr, I understand your frustration, believe me. However, I don’t think this is the right approach. It’s a poorly developed online feature for a free game.

Bothering family members because someone cheats in an online game is not the right approach. Just imagine what your response would be to a message like that about a cousin or something. You’d just block that person.

Besides, all you have got to go on is the facebook picture, nothing else. Then there’s privacy settings which prevent you from even figuring out more. Finally, someone like that only has to block you.

As a matter of fact, with the anonymity of Internet, I don’t think the players are the ones to address here at all. It’s Rovio that allows these holes to exist. Go after them.

Most people playing a game which has holes in it will use them, as long as there’s something to gain. Whether it is an achievement or in-game stuff (like many in here have been using gp friendrolls in the past or the LC’s now). It’s the developers who don’t patch things, not the players using the holes. We don’t like the cheaters in the arena, but it’s Rovio who’s letting it happen.

The following is a response I got after carefully approaching one of the hacked accounts owners to enquire about what they could or could not do. I was looking for this info for the assembled first post in the cheaters thread. Just asking assistance, without even using the term cheating, fingerpointing, blaming or anything else. Literally only asking for information.

This conversation is unedited and just copy/pasted for your info.
Me:

First of all, I hope you don’t mind me approaching you directly. I’d like to ask you for some input regarding a forum topic which I am maintaining in the Angrybirdsnest… blablabla (without the response, the entire text is unnecessary) Thanks, Larry

This is the response I got:

[Removed by admin for being horrible. Larry’s point is well made.]

I got a few more like these. It simply shows that many of these players simply couldn’t care less about your good intentions.