I noticed on the Bloodlines site that they have a recent update to their HUDs. Now it's a forced update.
Numbers 2 and 3 are of interest to us. For #2, the HUD won't let them bite newbies younger than 14 days. The newbies will only be able to join by buying the HUD or waiting over 2 weeks to be bit.
With #3, renaming or adding stuff to the linkset of the fangs apparently would cause them to not work, to keep them from being modded into fake hugs that are actually bites. Didn't realize that was a problem.
What about newbies who didn't log in much until long after the 14 day aura of protection expired, due to needing to get better hardware or a change in interest? Were newbies in infohubs a large percentage of their influx of converts?
Could they try bypassing the tamper controls by just hiding the fangs inside the av or something?