Aug 17, 2015, 06:59 PM
Evening everyone,
I'd just like to make a quick announcement regarding our policy towards the Fearless community; I don't have much time today so I may elaborate on this later, but I'll try to cover the main points.
DDoS attacks - We do not, never have, and never will support DDoS attacks against Fearless or any other community. If you attack Fearless, you are not doing us a favour; rather, you are heightening tensions and making things worse for both communities. Anyone caught DDoSing or even discussing DDoS attacks against Fearless may be banned for inciting tensions. Limelight staff itself are fully supportive of Fearless, and while we did remove our old proprietary security from there, Burnett and myself have helped Soul once or twice in order to get things up and running again.
Regarding SoulRipper - Of course, there has been a lot of banter regarding him, but this has all too often devolved into personal attacks. We do not find this acceptable, and those who bully SoulRipper on our forums, servers, or teamspeak will be banned. We will not, of course, be policing the Fearless forums, but if SoulRipper chooses to ban you there for the same reason, that is just. This goes for the rest of the Fearless staff, such as CodedBrain.
'Rival' communities - While obviously there is what seems to be a rivalry between our two communities, we do not wish to perpetuate this. We have chosen not to blacklist their community name from their forums; while they have, this is SoulRipper's decision and we will not comment on it. I must admit that staff from both communities have, at times, been overly childish on the Fearless forums or on Steam. We have already spoken to our staff team and warned them that enough is enough; if any LimeLight admins continue to display childish behaviour regarding Fearless, they will suffer consequences here. I would hope that Fearless takes a similar policy, but again, that is Soulripper's decision, not mine.
Updates - It is true that they have used a lot of our hard work, sometimes without credit, but likewise, a huge amount of the CityRP code is Soulripper's hard work, and Mavis' too, and we should be giving them more credit. We will be ensuring that the credits section reflects this. While it seems that once or twice they have copied our updates and we have copied theirs, I can assure you that this is not the case; there have simply been similar suggestions, and many updates that were pushed were in progress before the split.
I have spoken to SoulRipper numerous times, and while there are still tensions to work out, we are both looking forwards to continuing as two friendly competitive communities. While yesterday we suffered a massive attack which was related to the community hostilities, this was not endorsed by SoulRipper and he has no blame in it; it is a separate case which, for the time being, will be kept secret for security. I apologize for the secrecy, but it is currently necessary. SoulRipper and myself will be working hard to improve relations between ourselves and the two communities, and I hope that members from both LimeLight and Fearless follow suit.
I wish the best of luck to SoulRipper and Fearless and, of course, to LimeLight. I hope that you all understand the message I am trying to convey.
Yours,
Faustie
I'd just like to make a quick announcement regarding our policy towards the Fearless community; I don't have much time today so I may elaborate on this later, but I'll try to cover the main points.
DDoS attacks - We do not, never have, and never will support DDoS attacks against Fearless or any other community. If you attack Fearless, you are not doing us a favour; rather, you are heightening tensions and making things worse for both communities. Anyone caught DDoSing or even discussing DDoS attacks against Fearless may be banned for inciting tensions. Limelight staff itself are fully supportive of Fearless, and while we did remove our old proprietary security from there, Burnett and myself have helped Soul once or twice in order to get things up and running again.
Regarding SoulRipper - Of course, there has been a lot of banter regarding him, but this has all too often devolved into personal attacks. We do not find this acceptable, and those who bully SoulRipper on our forums, servers, or teamspeak will be banned. We will not, of course, be policing the Fearless forums, but if SoulRipper chooses to ban you there for the same reason, that is just. This goes for the rest of the Fearless staff, such as CodedBrain.
'Rival' communities - While obviously there is what seems to be a rivalry between our two communities, we do not wish to perpetuate this. We have chosen not to blacklist their community name from their forums; while they have, this is SoulRipper's decision and we will not comment on it. I must admit that staff from both communities have, at times, been overly childish on the Fearless forums or on Steam. We have already spoken to our staff team and warned them that enough is enough; if any LimeLight admins continue to display childish behaviour regarding Fearless, they will suffer consequences here. I would hope that Fearless takes a similar policy, but again, that is Soulripper's decision, not mine.
Updates - It is true that they have used a lot of our hard work, sometimes without credit, but likewise, a huge amount of the CityRP code is Soulripper's hard work, and Mavis' too, and we should be giving them more credit. We will be ensuring that the credits section reflects this. While it seems that once or twice they have copied our updates and we have copied theirs, I can assure you that this is not the case; there have simply been similar suggestions, and many updates that were pushed were in progress before the split.
I have spoken to SoulRipper numerous times, and while there are still tensions to work out, we are both looking forwards to continuing as two friendly competitive communities. While yesterday we suffered a massive attack which was related to the community hostilities, this was not endorsed by SoulRipper and he has no blame in it; it is a separate case which, for the time being, will be kept secret for security. I apologize for the secrecy, but it is currently necessary. SoulRipper and myself will be working hard to improve relations between ourselves and the two communities, and I hope that members from both LimeLight and Fearless follow suit.
I wish the best of luck to SoulRipper and Fearless and, of course, to LimeLight. I hope that you all understand the message I am trying to convey.
Yours,
Faustie
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