Nov 1st 2013, 1:10:56
Good. I welcome this. Any serious hacking should be reported to the authorities, and the perpetrator should be made to squirm like a little fluff. This should have happened regardless. The person responsible for this fluff mess needs to be punished, and I hope they rot, so the people affected by this fluffstorm may feel aggrieved.
As for the personal threats, surely they are just stupid rants made by pissed off people. You pissed a lot of good people off with the mass deletions, myself included.
I do feel that you guys handled it poorly. I think if you had provided substantial, well collated and irrefutable proof in your initial post, and left out the circumstantial bullfluff, the aggrieved (clean players who got fluffed) would have probably reacted with more reservation instead of coming out swinging and standing up for our buddies. I still fail to see how the proof provided implicates all of RD leadership, or ties Silver to being an accessory to the crime, and as such, I will not pass judgement on them until such evidence is provided, or enough information is presented to convince me of their involvement.
Having access to member lists is irrelevant, loads of alliances gather that information by legitimate (if somewhat immoral) means, and if you think they don't, then you are being extremely naïve. I think it's unfair to speculate that the hacking is related to this gathering of information. It *might* be related, but I honestly don't think RD would have any need to obtain any of the information illegally, nor would a number of other alliances.
On reflection, I was out of order calling numerous people idiots or fluffheads or whatever, but that's just a natural reaction to the immense feelings of being wronged (either way someone had fluffed us). I honestly wouldn't take any threats seriously.
Anyway, that's enough from me on this matter. Apologies to anyone who took offence to my rage posts the other day (except anyone who really is an idiot).
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