1. A method for maintaining community integrity in a gaming network, comprising: monitoring a device interacting with a game in the gaming network for indicia of violation of a rule defining fair game play; identifying a user associated with the monitored device as a cheater based on at least the indicia of violation of the rule defining fair game play, the indicia of violation indicating the presence of illicit game play; querying the monitored device associated with the user identified as a cheater to verify the existence of illicit game play; and informing second user present in a gaming lobby that the user identified as a cheater is associated with illicit game play when a response to the query is not received or when the response includes an incorrect response, wherein the illicit game play is in violation of a rule defining fair game play.