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Posted By: Louis Wu <halo@bungie.org> | Date: 5/17/03 3:01 p.m. |
I'd just posted a bunch of pictures from the fanfest, and was feeling a glow of warmth for the fan community in general, when I saw two posts on the forum: Boll's reply to Opie on the refresh thread Shishka's announcement of shwag theft The second sucks, and isn't really forum-related, per se... but it certainly kills my buzz. The first is a bit more immediate, in terms of you guys. (There's nothing really special about BOLL's post, by itself; it's just the first one I saw about this issue, and allowed me to determine that the thread in question was, in fact, responsible for the outage this forum experienced on Thursday.) A few idiots (and I don't use that term lightly) thought it was an okay thing to abuse a forum put here for no other reason than to give you, the HBO community, a place to gather. They did such a good job that they crashed the server - hard. Things to remember:
Yes, I'm really, really angry. No, I'm not home yet, and no, I can't do much about banning (temporarily or otherwise) the people involved at the moment. Do it again, though, and you'll see just how fast this site comes offline. For good. (Unlike Miguel, I'm not gonna lock this thread. I think, as he does, that it's pointless for folks to respond to it - there's really nothing to say; I don't want to hear 'I'm sorry', or 'you're right', I just want it never to happen again - but if you want to chime in anyway... feel free.) |
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