Please look at the rules. See rule No.6 for what the definition of "junior moderating" is.
I will not have members instigating lynchmobs.
The moderation team and I will discuss these matters upon my return. As Gunlord reiterated earlier, we ask for your patience until we the mods can have a proper discussion about this... which will not happen for at least a week.
Instigating a lynchmob?! When the heck did I say anything about starting a lynchmob?! A matter of fact to be technical I didn't even start this thread!
My very first post was just a suggestion about a statement being made about this as it may discourage others from doing this in the future!
This is coming from one of the people that encouraged to do a DDOS attack on Ericard!
Maybe you should look at the comments in this thread more carefully:
So you propose to just let him get off scot-free and probably do this to somebody else?
I didn't say it was a perfect answer
Jorge knows what's up.
Hell I even agreed with your suggestion about adding a content without a creator's premission:
I'm with that, it's a start. Anything else that he has coming is on him...
Your coming at me, but yet the true creator of the sprite said it himself:
Lucky me I don't play by this "be a better human" code. If I did, people like Ericard would be going around scott free doing their shit using my things without anyone stopping them. It's a silly self-imposed samurai restriction that generates no results whatsoever.
A person that does something wrong, needs to be reminded what they are doing wrong, or they'll never change.
By exposing Ericard and marking him as a thief, MAYBE he'll rethink his ways in the long run and eventually stop his antics. I know some people who do, so I'm positive in that. Until then, let the badmouthing run amok. It's not like it's having any effect, is it ?
Also, I find it funny that you're expressing concern for him being "harassed too much", when the one starting it was himself by demeaning my work. You reap what you sow, I guess. I told him through PM that this was going to happen because he was acting like a twat. It's not like he didn't knew it or didn't have time to fix his mess. It was his choice to go on with his shenanigans, and this is the most I can do. So I'll do it.
I haven't said anything that hasn't been mentioned already than other members and not even to some of the other extremes that were mentioned:
It should be locked.
This thread targets a single user and encourages other members to follow and attack him and thus far the moderators have only either contributed to it or laughed.
If this thread targeted any other member I doubt it would have gone this far.
This thread should be stickied, for reference to newer people.
I'm surprised he hasn't just been banned, given the amount of trouble he's caused.
I'll add to the votes as well. I'd suggest that perhaps if amends and an agreement are made, perhaps banning won't be necessary?
I.E. if someone had apologized and gotten permission, or apologized and removed the stolen sprite, perhaps instead of conversations on banishment we could instead be reminiscing good times over a spot of tea and some crumpets...or a hamburger.
Also, while I do think some example should be made of the offender, there probably is a line to avoid crossing. While a sticky for the sake of a warning to other spriters is a valid idea, we don't want him permanently in stocks do we? "THIEF" is a deserving title right now, among others it seems as he continues to dig a grave for himself, and this instance should be stopped. Notifying admins of the stolen content etc. in this game seems like a good idea. However, people do have the ability to change and "grow up". Perhaps in time, he will learn the proper way(s) to cite and use the intellectual property of others. And it may be a long time before that happens...but eventually the rat is shocked enough to learn it's way through the maze, right?
If someone do idiotic stuff like that they should be punished. In our case he deserves to get exposed in ALL possible ways about "his" work everywhere.
With his refusal to remove the sprite from "his" game he, at least for me, is no longer a real member of this community.
The sprite is not even mine and I raged like mad when I saw what he did and how he refuses to remove this sprite.
I will "hunt" him down
Ericard just took the first step of becoming a criminal. And we have to leave him alone? Just hope he will be banned here? That is not how things work in my eyes. I will go to the other Castlevania sites with proof that he is a thief and make him sorry for his ignorance.
Having been on the wrong side of a situation like this before, I can confidently say this is not bullying. Bullying would be harassing Ericard while in the process of, or after, getting the sprite removed from the game. Bullying would be if Ericard was cooperating with you guys, but you still followed him around and labeled him "THIEF" wherever he went. Bullying would be making death threats or illegally using his personal information against him.
This is not any of that. Ericard was caught in a copyright violation, and instead of apologizing and taking the sprite out, he:
1. Lied about finding it on google
2. Argued that it was fine because there was no explicit copyright statement on the sprite
3. Insisted it was impossible to remove, despite the fact that anyone with the brain to make a game obviously knows its not.
4. Pissed on the quality of the work
5. Continued to promote his game on other websites
6. Pretended to be another person on said other websites to avoid direct scrutiny
7. Returned here to finally and defiantly declare that there was no way the sprite was ever being removed
At this point he's not becoming a criminal, he IS one, and if he has a website that hosts this content it should be taken down.
Dude if your just buddies with him or whatever then just say so, but don't come at me sideways for no reason. You mention "Junior Moderating" yet, I've been on the forum for a while now and my near 1700 posts prove that.
If you had such a issue about me suggesting that Ericard be banned just so he doesn't get extra harassed or this thread turn into a cluster (which it did) then say it to everyone, not just me.
Don't know how I feel about not being able to offer my opinions to a site that is clearly bias to certain members and anyone else outside of the little circle gets sh*t. (This is not the first time this has happened here) Maybe I should just take my fan-game and move on...
I clearly was passionate about this forum when I first came about it and tried to make it a little better than when I left it.
All The Contests, Bestiary and Compendium and Music and Sound Reguests Showcase were single handedly my ideas which got used and got great traffic for the site that it hadn't seen in apparently a long while.
Never asked to be rewarded anything in that regard and I even asked a couple of times long before to help Mod, but I guess I am not cool enough to be in your guys little circle or whatever.
I was just happy to be around Castlevania fans and being able to promote my fan-game here.
I am going to have to meditate on this issue.
It may just be time for me to move on and leave the dungeon to become like 1up.com.