User blog comment:Trainsparency/2019 Spook and Sinister Hunting Thread/@comment-30377152-20190921083107/@comment-31045658-20190921165429

Yes, artmoney is considered a form of cheating. It will scan files located in memory and display them in a hex editor. The most this tool can be used for is for telling you if there's a spook/sinister tree in the server or not, but not giving you the location. As an artmoney user myself, I can confirm this is a pretty powerful cheating tool. Although not as bad as people who teleport/fly straight to the trees, it is still an exploit. I have vowed off the use of artmoney, and even tried to get the other people on our team to stop using it because I genuinely thought it removed the rush of adrenaline you got from finding a tree. I was persuaded by others to use it once again for competitive reasons, which is why this year I have given up on competitive hunting and decided to hunt the ol' fashioned way. I want to relive the rush you got after hours and hours of hunting and finally coming across one, even if it means knowing people are going to be better at finding trees than me. I can tell you, though, that in recent years, artmoney has become extremely ineffective due to how many false positives are appearing. The effect we have left on recent years in the spook population is miniscule considering how many servers there actually are, but I believe that this is wrong and I am going to change my ways from now on. I'm sorry