The line never meant to be crossed
AThompson
It was a time ago when I wrote an article. Today I’ve decided to do so, because today I have been experiencing an issue, which broke my belief in one more thing on eRep.
I knew a long time ago that the developer team does not actually know its own game, besides of this I knew that some of the trolls don’t really know where is that line, which not meant to be crossed. I’m not really playing the game, and I’m not really active anymore, but I think there are a few principles should remain as guidelines for those who would like to play the game with respect towards each other.
As you might know the organization of ONE HQ’s newspaper the Arbitrage West published an article, which was originally written by smee again, the domestic low-troll of EDEN. As you might also know smee again is running a successful business also know as his newspaper, an mainly gathering his subscribers by publishing articles with basicly the same content again and again. This is what he is capable of.
The ONE HQ newspaper has a history of abuse. ShadowMJ with a clever IRC trick got the password few months ago and published
Well, no. As a miracle made by the administrators few of the organizations originally belongs to its original country somehow got put on the national org list of the occupier country.
This way the ONE HQ’s Arbitrage West is on the list of the Canadian CP. This would not be a problem for any good person, but somehow the EDEN decided it would be cool to cross that line. So he asked for the password of he ONE’s org, and he got it. Then somehow the password ended up in smee again’s hands, or the Canadian CP simply published his article.
In a world of principles this is called unethical, and in a world of rules this called as system exploit.
The old HQ member of EDEN and a current CP of the very same alliance which published an article about how the national orgs should not be abused by the CP’s right to ask for its password made this step.
Besides of this they were not afraid of using system exploits, which - in a world of fair rules - should be rewarded with permanent ban.
The usage of system exploit considering the cases where you are using a hole in the program or the site to get advantages instead of reporting it.
As an example I can give you Struki, the original account of the Serbian legend, Kistru.
Struki got banned because after he found a bug without willingness (there was a bug on monetary market so you could earn infinite gold) he reported it. When he found that bug he used it unwanted, and after he reported it they banned him.
What is the summary of the article?
I always think about eRepublik as a game, not as a place where I can burn out my RL frustration, so I’ve been always trying to play this game with at least the basic principles. I’ve never thought a loser of a battle should be humiliated for the fact that they lost it, I’ve never thought a country on the opposite side should be handled as a piece of crap.
I think there should be a line which should never be crossed. I think in this case, just like when a country were using bugs to get advantages or when the Bosnians were hacking Hungarian and Serbian accounts to win resistance wars the line get crossed. When the Russian, Indonesian CP were using bugs to get tons of gold the community rose its voice against it, when the Bosnians hacked accounts even a few EDENite rose its voice.
Now the elite of EDEN is using system exploits to publish some article to humiliate the opposite alliance.
If you came here to play try to give some respect to everyone, besides which side are they on. There are enough tension, war, unfair issues in the real life.
We came here to play and to have fun.
P.S. As a bonus, the ONE's newpaper moved back to the original (now dead) org, because it was unrightful to move originally. The EDEN HQ sitting on the Greek Ministry of Health org.
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Comments
privi
>ShadowMJ with a clever IRC trick got the password few months ago and published two articles
I only published one article.
It was pretty funny, but the whole "national orgs" was a stupid-assed idea from the beginning. It was an abuse just waiting to happen.
And it happened.
AThompson egy segg o/
Azt hittem, magyarul fogod megírni. : O
As a former follower of EDEN, I'm horribly disappointed. First bazooka bots, now this...no more fair play in the alliance under the tree.
SMEE>ONE
o7
A bit inappropriate I think.
this is game mate, relax
Reported for obvious lies, insults and flaming.
This ARTICLE is the line that should never meant to be crossed.
also, i have nothing to do with EDEN, i am ONE SG.
and seriously estmx, your voting this article?
I agree with you AThompson, 100%. You left out the bit about a rotten, corrupt mod team, but the rest is spot on.
Who really cares anymore anyway?
This is EDEN.
Tell me one obvious lie. O_o Since only Iain Keers got the password, and he didn't give it away, tell me how on earth you could get it without hacking, or system exploiting?
Agree
Cause smee is Plato.
the org goes to canadian cp and someone used it...
ok maybe unethical but system exploit and bans for what?
get serious
Maybe Iain Keers gave it to me.
Furthermore, explain this to me, if its a Canadian org, why does Iain Keers have the password? did he get it by hacking or by system exploiting?
As a former UK MoF, Arbitrage West has always belonged to eUK.
I offered to run for ONE SG to restore the alliance to its old glory, but for *some* reason I wasn't nominated, and now you elect smee??
I am disappoint 😑
Also, i like how you say "some trolls do not know where the line is".. like this article published from the ONE newspaper that was directed to personally troll me..
.. an article by an alliance newspaper directed at an individual.
the line never meant to be crossed!
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-one-a-short-note-about-the-termination-of-a-misguided-apprentice-1909281/1/20
personal attacks is the line we should never cross. i hope we can all agree on that.
Frutek666 yes it's a game, if u remember me and AT were SG's of ONE when we deleted entire map, try finding our articles... We always pointed out or respect for our opponents. When things are done by ShadowMJ who is ordinary player it's one thing. When u do it as representatives of alliance and your countries it's just lame... Hail LAMEDEN! 🙂
Find another org, which belongs to you, this one belongs to the Canadian government.
heil ONE, heil pfffffffffff
loooolllllll
loooooosers
"Find another org, which belongs to you, this one belongs to the Canadian government."
That's FALSE. It's a UK org, always has been.
Butthurt much?
Even if it would be Canadian org and by any mistake newspapers finished there still that would not be an excuse... Shame is all yours.
Why bother with hackers, they will use all the necessary just to boost ego, meanwhile staff is chilling : )
@gid1: I agree when its done as representatives of alliance and your countries its just lame (p.s. the only country I represent is Serbia and the only alliance i represent is ONE)
p.p.s, again I agree when its done as representatives of alliance and your countries its just lame, look at this OFFICIAL article from ONE HQ
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-one-a-short-note-about-the-termination-of-a-misguided-apprentice-1909281/1/20
smee for the win
Oi, hands off my org.
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/ate pilav
That's why smee will never understand an article like this. He was using system exploits, he was doing a thing condemned by even a few past EDEN HQ members, and he is still making excuses instead of an apology.
smees article got 600 voted in less than an hour yours how many?
SMEE>ONE
Smee published it from an org where I built up 4K subs publishing articles, yeah he is surely cool.
Smee is very funny, let him believe he rules the world o/
"which was originally written by smee again, the domestic low-troll of EDEN. As you might also know smee again is running a successful business also know as his newspaper, an mainly gathering his subscribers by publishing articles with basicly the same content again and again. This is what he is capable of "+1
Is it me or this game is getting everyday more childish?
First, using your position as Country President to obtain the password of an ORG that got to be in your national orgs list by mistake, just to humilliate the rival Alliance is fucking LAME.
Second, the article written by Iain Keers, linked by smee again, even when it has a good sense of humour, doesn't fit at all in the official newspaper of ONE.
Third, smee, you have to admit that you're loosing your touch since you got too mainstreaming. /hipster
Smee doesn't know what ethics are.
He won in comments aswell man
SMEE>ONE
Well then he and you the fangirl must be proud. : )
You can not expect honor from greek
smee, your problem is, you´re not even funny. you´re only a little arrogant pr1ck. that´s all.
Many people tend to equate ethics with their feelings. But being ethical is clearly not a matter of following one's feelings. A person following his or her feelings may recoil from doing what is right. In fact, feelings frequently deviate from what is ethical.
Smee says http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzGwKwLmgM
It's a sad day when things like this happen. And some mod would have discovered that the org had been put on the wrong list and used this as an excuse to reset the password... so the mod team is also involved in this corruption.
The admin team themselves refused to fix the problem. I'd give you logs, but I don't really want to be banned today. Bias everywhere.
smee pwned you, admin it
and you can only blame admins for this since they made a mistake that gave smee access to that orgf
What do you expect from EDEN and smee again?