The Mod Squad
Jul 7, 2011 3:00:43 GMT 2
Post by raybee1970 on Jul 7, 2011 3:00:43 GMT 2
Just a heads up to everyone over here.
We have temporarily disabled the registrations and downloads on our site, due to an ongoing problem in this community that continues to hound us.
A few months ago, we banned a kid who stole a mod from us and reposted it without ever asking permission. To top it off, the download he posted was screwed up and wouldn't even work right.
So we banned him for his actions.
Then a few weeks later, we started seeing malicious YouTube videos being posted about how we hacked his account, how our downloads had viruses in them, and how our site was so unsafe that no one should ever go there again.
This user has been a cancer in the community since he signed up, and while we naturally don't want others to suffer because of him, that is what is happening right now due to us taking even more extreme security measures to make sure this person can no longer get into our site.
He had somehow been able to get back in by way of a friends account, and we found out and that friend was banned then too. Then yesterday, he had yet another friend come in and tell us if we were doing all this stuff, we didn't need to even be a part of the sim community at all.
That was the last straw. Not only was that person banned, but it caused us to investigate further and we found that some mass downloading had been going on with our files... in an attempt to use our bandwidth up and get our site shut down.
Due to all these circumstances, we have now disabled registrations and downloads until we can resolve this problem.
We are extremely sorry to all the innocent users out there who never cause any problems, and we didn't want to have to do this...but to better secure our site, we had to do this for now until we can figure out things and get it straightened out.
If anyone here needs a particular file, let me know and I'll find a way to get it to you. Until we bring back the signups and downloads, I hope you guys can understand our frustrations and know that we are truly sorry for any inconveniences this may cause anyone.
It was either do this, or go private permanently with only adult users... or even worse, close up shop and let that little bastard win.
I'll let you guys know something when I know more. But for now, if you happen to need something, just send me a private message and I'll work on getting you what you need.
Ray (Raybee1970)
We have temporarily disabled the registrations and downloads on our site, due to an ongoing problem in this community that continues to hound us.
A few months ago, we banned a kid who stole a mod from us and reposted it without ever asking permission. To top it off, the download he posted was screwed up and wouldn't even work right.
So we banned him for his actions.
Then a few weeks later, we started seeing malicious YouTube videos being posted about how we hacked his account, how our downloads had viruses in them, and how our site was so unsafe that no one should ever go there again.
This user has been a cancer in the community since he signed up, and while we naturally don't want others to suffer because of him, that is what is happening right now due to us taking even more extreme security measures to make sure this person can no longer get into our site.
He had somehow been able to get back in by way of a friends account, and we found out and that friend was banned then too. Then yesterday, he had yet another friend come in and tell us if we were doing all this stuff, we didn't need to even be a part of the sim community at all.
That was the last straw. Not only was that person banned, but it caused us to investigate further and we found that some mass downloading had been going on with our files... in an attempt to use our bandwidth up and get our site shut down.
Due to all these circumstances, we have now disabled registrations and downloads until we can resolve this problem.
We are extremely sorry to all the innocent users out there who never cause any problems, and we didn't want to have to do this...but to better secure our site, we had to do this for now until we can figure out things and get it straightened out.
If anyone here needs a particular file, let me know and I'll find a way to get it to you. Until we bring back the signups and downloads, I hope you guys can understand our frustrations and know that we are truly sorry for any inconveniences this may cause anyone.
It was either do this, or go private permanently with only adult users... or even worse, close up shop and let that little bastard win.
I'll let you guys know something when I know more. But for now, if you happen to need something, just send me a private message and I'll work on getting you what you need.
Ray (Raybee1970)