Zhorken
groove out!
- Pronoun
- they or she
EDIT 3/18: See this post for full details.
So, as opaltiger previously posted, res (1. Luftballon/sreservoir) and Mai stole people's passwords from the old Battle for Asber forums, as well as some other ASB-related forums res had, and used them to get into people's TCoDf accounts. The forum admins have also banned blazheirio889, allitersonance, and Crazy Linoone in connection with the same event — we're still investigating, but we're pretty confident that the current bans will stand, and we're moving forward based on that assumption. We'll provide more specific information later. One of res's sockpuppets, Noel, has been banned as well.
The admins have reset a few dozen people's passwords, mostly people who were part of the Battle for Asber event. They logged everyone out of the forums last night, too — changing your password apparently isn't enough to boot people out of your account if they're already logged in. I also reset all the same people's passwords on the ASBdb, as I already posted there; I PMed everyone temporary passwords, but if you didn't get one, or yours doesn't work, let me know. There was also one particular false alarm: the same IP showed up for res's account and several other people's accounts, but it turns out that IP belongs to some kind of Google compression server for mobile Chrome.
As for actual game-related followup: the banned members should immediately be considered DQ'd from any battles they were in. If they were reffing your battle, you can go ahead and ask for an emergency ref. We've cleared the "battles awaiting refs" list of any challenges involving them, but feel free to repost those challenges for someone else to take. I'll be taking care of ref quizzes for the time being, Metallica Fanboy will post regarding the tournament soon, and we'll contact people shortly about ref test battles. Negrek has also offered to help out with things for a while. If there's anything I haven't thought of, feel free to bring it up.
ASB will keep rolling just fine. I know some people are thinking "lol classic TCoD", so I'd like to be candid about the fact that, yeah, it's been six weeks and we've already had some pretty bewildering drama. But we're confident that this should be the end of it. Things have been going really well so far despite everything, and we're all dedicated and we've all put way too much work into this to let it fall apart now.
So, as opaltiger previously posted, res (1. Luftballon/sreservoir) and Mai stole people's passwords from the old Battle for Asber forums, as well as some other ASB-related forums res had, and used them to get into people's TCoDf accounts. The forum admins have also banned blazheirio889, allitersonance, and Crazy Linoone in connection with the same event — we're still investigating, but we're pretty confident that the current bans will stand, and we're moving forward based on that assumption. We'll provide more specific information later. One of res's sockpuppets, Noel, has been banned as well.
The admins have reset a few dozen people's passwords, mostly people who were part of the Battle for Asber event. They logged everyone out of the forums last night, too — changing your password apparently isn't enough to boot people out of your account if they're already logged in. I also reset all the same people's passwords on the ASBdb, as I already posted there; I PMed everyone temporary passwords, but if you didn't get one, or yours doesn't work, let me know. There was also one particular false alarm: the same IP showed up for res's account and several other people's accounts, but it turns out that IP belongs to some kind of Google compression server for mobile Chrome.
As for actual game-related followup: the banned members should immediately be considered DQ'd from any battles they were in. If they were reffing your battle, you can go ahead and ask for an emergency ref. We've cleared the "battles awaiting refs" list of any challenges involving them, but feel free to repost those challenges for someone else to take. I'll be taking care of ref quizzes for the time being, Metallica Fanboy will post regarding the tournament soon, and we'll contact people shortly about ref test battles. Negrek has also offered to help out with things for a while. If there's anything I haven't thought of, feel free to bring it up.
ASB will keep rolling just fine. I know some people are thinking "lol classic TCoD", so I'd like to be candid about the fact that, yeah, it's been six weeks and we've already had some pretty bewildering drama. But we're confident that this should be the end of it. Things have been going really well so far despite everything, and we're all dedicated and we've all put way too much work into this to let it fall apart now.
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