Holammer
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Smurfs are high skill/ranked players creating new accounts to dunk on newbies or behave in ways they would never do on main. It is frowned up because it's very discouraging to encounter them as a new player when you don't even know the keys. Smurfing was prohibited in the Steam Online Conduct rules back in May this year, so this is bloody harvest. If you smurf in other Valve games like Counterstrike, reconsider.
Not only are they banning smurfs, they have also traced the main accounts and threaten to sanction them too.
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Not only are they banning smurfs, they have also traced the main accounts and threaten to sanction them too.


Dota 2 - Smurfing is Not Welcome in Dota - Steam News
Today, we permanently banned 90,000 smurf accounts that have been active over the last few months. Smurf accounts are alternate accounts used by players to avoid playing at the correct MMR, to abandon games, to cheat, to grief, or to otherwise be toxic without consequence. Additionally, we have...