I normally would be against posting here, but I believe that this is a matter that actually effects the experience of people in game. Time and time again you see this stuff happen on this game, where certain users display a certain a balance between 'terrorizing' and 'philanthropizing' that everyone is quick to shame them when they do wrong, and then turn a blind eye and praise them when they do right. This is the problem here. I constantly see people like this being made admin, or being welcomed on a first name basis across multiple servers. People are quick to forget the major wrongs the instant someone does a minor right, going as far as buying keys for these users who have been revoked for deliberate for repeated instances of in-game abuse.
The term 'problem user' gets thrown around a lot, and normally I am against using the term, but the actual problem users aren't people who post annoying memes, or bait you on the forums, but the ones that cause trouble and ruin the game for the people who just want to play. People like this who weave their way into social circles, only to cause problems for everyone else and then retreat back to their safe haven where they're welcomed with open arms.
This guy has attempted numerous times to 'reform' and come back and the same suckers fall for it again and again. Stop believing that these people change, stop letting them play on your server, stop forgetting everything bad they did just because they made you a simple add-on.
From when he spammed the master server:
There is no better way I could have pulled the plug. I'm going to need to shut all of my stuff down anyway.
In response to the act being selfish and handicapped, of course it is .. it's a Self Delete.
(http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=265003.msg7791690#msg7791690)Playing the fool:
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=265038.0Eval exploit:
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=281892.0It seems we have a recurring theme here:
Zapk and him were just discussing what the cause and fix of this could be, let's not just to the conclusion that it was zapk YET, yes he's been known to do this. But i don't believe it was him doing all the spam this time. the exploit was posted apparently so people are taking advantage of it.
(http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=281597.msg8434758#msg8434758)This was just a simple one page google search, I'm sure there are many more topics/posts you can find, as well as addition anecdotes from users in this very thread. But people tend to forget these things because he's "changed" or he hosts a popular server or released a cool add-on.
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=265084.0 (This one was not even a DAY later than when he hijacked pecon's site)http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=265098.0http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=288889.0http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=288876.0It's entirely his fault for choosing to exploit/crash servers, but welcoming him back into your social circles definitely doesn't help curb the problem.
