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Originally Posted by arne1288
Cutting corners and attempting to be "future proof", especially when you never know what happens in the future, and when it may lead to false positives; that is clearly "lousy".
The ignorant way, to take your word, would be check multiple StrEqual/StrContains, when you have the option right now to do it right and use one single, that wouldn't cause a single false positive.
You have some options and things available right now, those are the only things you can depend on at the time being. If things change in the future, you should adjust things at that time in the future.
A "Ban By VAC", to quote the title, is related to when a user is VAC banned, and NOT when there are anything else related to the VAC system, that isn't the exact ban.
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"cutting corners" implies that short cuts are taken to reduce the complexity of code in this situation. Obviously adding more code for separate checks would be the adverse of this. You are right, you never know what will happen in the future with updates. You don't know if they will change the string or introduce new strings which would make both scenarios equal. You'd have to come back and manipulate the program to account for these changes regardless. Adding multiple string checks wouldn't correlate to increased performance overhead in this case as the single longer string check would be even worse. You've made no valid logical statements for why one would be preferred over the other. It's clear you are upset over something here but attacking users on a public forum as an active moderator over disagreeing about programming choices is a bit ridiculous
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