You did exactly that when you first posted. I would bring up all the DDB/BORG players that cheated, but that would be breaking the rules.
Lets just say that many more players from your side were banned than ours, because when they couldn't beat us many of them had to cheat.
That might have had to do with the fact that each and every single player on our side back in the day was reported 10+ times on average "Just to be sure they weren't cheating" - as opposed to 1-3 on ours - that was during Aramez's days... not afterward.
Hell... even one of the many accounts I switched to (jcalmbr) at one point was suspended and lost some PP cause of something Aramez sent to that account 6 months prior to me taking it over - yea okay, like anyone would start digging out 6 month old records without being asked to.
We simply didn't care that much. Unlike some vigilantes there who just loved spamming the "report" button I guess. I've got no idea on what DDB did though...
The one guy we knew was cheating and actually reported actively never got banned - so what the hell would be the point eh? Based on the maps alone he still isn't banned - which is rather amusing actually. My only question is... is he still sending 50k+ attacks per day on average? Or has it dropped to a more reasonable level?
Not to mention being able to send that many attacks at several players AND still manage to click enough to rebuild 800 catted villages.
BORG I'm fully aware who did use macros however, comparing the number of BORG vs CTRL who used macros, well, the latter wins by a landslide. BORG players didn't give a damn enough to use macros had they been taught how to... well most BORG players - figure why it's always the same people attacking?
As for CTRL, the idea that all of them cheated wouldn't have been fair - there are players there that are rather skilled without the use of bots and whatever not... however, it's inevitable that you're branded along with the cheats due to affiliations.
Then again why am I posting here anyways... flogging the dead horse... I guess...
Expert on cheating - macros are something that most people if they've played any tedious online game - would have probably employed at one time or another. Considering the mass of Runescape players or I should say ex-Runescape players on 10 originally, it's no surprise.
It wasn't whether or not you knew how to use them it was whether or not you decided to employ that knowledge.