Yeah I like it too.. PM me if you want we may be getting OT.
Plants: You mentioned ". Because a PET member in BO1 banned a player for getting 30 plants in a game because "no one can get that amount" and they found out days later they banned a person for playing legit. Thats just one known example."
I have heard this about head shots before as well. That kind of band-aid type anti-cheat is always going to be flawed, with this many players and games you can't use probability as a form of anti-cheat. I saw the same thing on rapid fire. I can shoot single shot guys pretty damn quick, when they first brought in anti-rapid fire my gun would stop a lot thinking I had a modded controller. They eventually fixed it.
I get your point about leaderboard, and they have always been screwed up and ironically never fixed and usually hacked the same way as previous titles. I still think there are smarter ways to deal with this problem then being reactive to a huge number of reports. That's fairly primitive for a software company, a leaderboard has such a small number of variables associated to it, some kind of validation of data prior to committing it would work fairly easily.
Interesting perspective you must have then (Re:MS Job). One of the biggest ban offenses in Xbox was avatar modding right? surely avatar modding could have been something a sweep of the avatar database could have picked up in one foul swoop? I would believe you if you told me you had to look at each avatar first.
I really think Activision are gambling on this one. They are not giving it enough attention and at the end of the day it is what they are selling "an experience". The worst that experience gets the more customers they will lose. Respawn's Titanfall actually looks like it is on the right path, cloud gaming is probably the best method to combat this. COD only just got dedicated servers not sure they will be in the cloud space quick enough or see it as a necessary change because they do not prioritize Lag and Hacking high enough.
Shame the Xbox 1 sounds like it is crap