cheaters

The conclusion is that there are, for the moment, few cheaters.

Cheating isn't publicized, shamed, and punished in the way necessary to have any impact on the cheaters' values.

This makes sense, as otherwise, cheaters would disconnect or turn off their console as soon as they started losing.

But they deserve being hunted down by lynch mob of defrauded cheaters for that removal fee extortion.

Particularly given your very next sentence in which you state privacy only rewards liers and cheaters, and generally unreliable people.

Most of the time, the cheaters are obvious, because good Scrabble players recognize cheating when compared to real human game play.

Yeah, releasing all the data paints with pretty broad strokes, and has more implications than just outing cheaters to their partners.

In similar threads, some found cheaters, but the followup interview exposed them because they can't speak about the process and solution cogently.

Valve does something similar to detect cheaters on CS:GO by the way.

Secondly, I'd wager that many of the users sign up to use Ashley Madison for the thrill of the idea and probably aren't actually cheaters themselves or hooking up with other cheaters.

As an aside, why is it assumed that all cheaters are men?

Cheating and petty corruption culture is an existential threat and the solution isn't to catch the cheaters, its acculturate them to follow the rules.

When the choices are "cheat or get fired," your company will inevitably fill itself with cheaters.

I don't think this can be solved by punishing the cheaters, or "educating" them about the consequences.

"cheaters") probably just fake a profile on a regular site, and lie to their date as well.

Sadly, cheaters usually do prosper; the choice to be "honest" or not should be made from moral principles, not a misguided belief that it will lead to success/happiness/financial independence.