What is up with these people...

[Archon_Wing]

In my long tenure of online play, the Ber rune is the first item I've ever known to be duped (and the first item I've ever had that got 'swallowed').  I am in no way trying to defend cheating/hacking or duping.  My point is merely 'in my experience, there are a lot more legit items and players out there than I think loungers give credit.'

I was merely trying to make the point that not all of closed battle.net is corrupt.  Sure there are bad people running around who mess things up occaisionally.  The same is true in real life.  But in the same way we do not hide in our homes out of fear of supporting these bad people, perhaps we shouldn't hide from closed battle.net.  Its been my experience that a lot more good people exist out there than I often see accredited in peoples opinions on the lounge.

I repeat, I am not supporting hacking or duping in any way, nor trying to make a defense for it.  I feel just as strongly that it can ruin a game.  But I do not feel my trading habits have shown to actively support duping (the Ber rune is the first and only dupe I've run across), nor do I think that anyone who has a windforce must necissarily have duped it.

I hope I do not offend you Griselda or anyone on the lounge, and if any of this post comes off sounding in opposition with you, or sounding in support of duping, please accept my humble apologies and edit the post as you see fit.  Its 8 am here and I just finished a term paper on Aristotle at 5 am.  Its entirely possible my brain is not functioning too well at this point.

Cheers,

Munk
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There is no way to tell if something is tainted or not. However, I do not think it is worth not trading just because of that possbility. If I were to not play with someone because they could be a hacker I would not be interacting very much at all.

The best way is to simply avoid items that are known to be frequently duped. Anything beyond that is an unresonable expectation.

You cannot assume that everyone is bad just because some of them are. Certainly hacks are really common on the d2 side of battle.net but there are people who play the game because it is... a game. Not a racing contest to be the ub3r l33t.

I think people who cheat will always cheat. There will always be people of their ilk willing to trade the ub3r stuff, and I'd argue that they're less likely to handle stuff gotten through legit means because it is not "l33t" enough for them.