You know, I have a lot of respect for someone who codes their own mod-apps, who learns their way through a system. There is something natural about that. It requires a level of thinking that I don't think many people can achieve. You have to figure out how something works and take the time to learn and understand the base systems around it, usually without guides. Trial and error, check and try again - balacing a lot of variables in your head.
But what happened today, and over the last three days. What the fuck was that? Are you trying to break me or something? Show me how man you are? How clever?
Well fine, you won. Congratulations. You ruined a free project. Well done. What an amazing group. You destroyed someones work. Want me to post a picture with a shoe on my head? Want me to post to everyone and tell them how awesome you are because you destroyed something that's free? Want me to tell everyone how you're right about how shit everything is? Want me to give up, realizing that it's pointless to do anything against such senseless hate.
Look, yes - I am a dick, and who ever said the mod is really anything amazing. But what you guys did, is just fucking cruel. That's not mod-apping. That's not a challenge. It's not exploiting a weakness so that people don't produce crappy software. I can't even describe what that is. It was just so senseless and stupid. You did it to each other too for christ sake. And if your aim was to destroy the project, fine - you have. Bulls-eye. If your aim was to make me feel like shit - fine, you've done that too. There was no sport in what happened last night, none at all.
I feel no "victory" in the "bans" that were handed out. It just buys some time before the project dies. What you think I'm supposed to ramp it up here? Is that it? Declare war on you and make all these accusations about how safe everything is? What do you think I am? Just what resources do you think I have? You know (well, those who are actually making the tech) the situation with this just as well as I do. There is no war here because it can't be won. It's been lost.
Congratulations