There is nothing worse in an online game than a dirty, rotten, cheating sonofabitch ruining the entire experience for everyone else. Blizzard would seem to agree with me in this regard, and they have banned yet another 59,000 cheating accounts from World of Warcraft.

I say "another" as Blizzard has been banning 50,000 here, 5,000 there and 1,800 over that way on Battle.net, where the likes of Diablo II are played, and from World of Warcraft for quite some time now. It's also an approach taken, though not as frequently, by Valve on the Steam service.

Have no mercy, I say - cheaters, hackers, farmers, ban the lot. Apart from a few obsessed losers who may top themselves when deprived of WoW (I say that with a hint of sarcasm, but only a hint) it's hardly like you're killing anyone. When we pay for an online game we pay for the creators to manage the experience and ensure it remains fun. Blizzard is living up to its end of this agreement.