question about diablosight

[Jarulf]

But in any case, I don't use scanners because I think that common sense is usually a better indicator of who cheats and who doesn't. 

True, but I can still see a potential for some use, typically as a suplemental check. As allready said, if someone wants to hide their actual items, there is really not much to do. If someone wants to resort to code cheats, again, not much to do. And so on. But it can give a good initial hint if someone can be trusted and/or use typical cheat and/or duped item. Seriously, take a look at someones inventory and it is takes a typical one second to spot the person who use typical duped or impossible item. No need to resort to chating a while, judging by other means and so on. One can rule away quite a bunch of people in such a way. The rest? You catch by your common sense, or if they are "good" at it, unfortunately only when you die or crash out of the game.

I don't recall who did the diablosight program, wasn't it Saint Moe EverGreen or whatever his name was? If so, I would say that as far as the "rules" to spot impossible and bad items, it is as good as it gets with next to no false positives are missed negatives. I actually looked at the code and algorithms myself to at least one of versions and even helped correct some of the errors and it was quite solid. Not saying it will never be wrong though.