As many of you know, Elle has decided to leave the server. This probably comes as some level of surprise, because of her long tenure here. I know it came as quite a shock to myself and the other senior staff. She has informed many of us that she will not be coming back at any point.
Lets go over the events leading up to her quitting:
January 20thRich was tracking down an ax that was...
Impossible It had enchantments that you cannot get on it through fair game-play. After a few hours of checking Rich followed the trail back to a few of Elle's Chests. Upon further investigation it was found that this was not an isolated instance. We found that multiple things had been duplicated. Below is a link to a sample of one such instance.
http://pastebin.com/Bt4ymqN5After finding these occurrences, we continued to investigate how extensive the abuse was. We found 2 more notable instances.
The logs and screen shots show how she copied Signs that Rich had used to store his XP, Broke them to retrieve the stored XP and then created signs of her own. Which were then repeatedly copied, broke, and then re-pasted in.
When there is an entry for a placed sign, it has should have the content of the text written like this example:
[[Trade]] [$200:0] [825 exp:643500] [Ellemenopea]]
When it just says "created wall sign" without having the text of the creation, that means it was pasted in using W/e. You can see what I mean in the screenshot below. (remember, read logs from the bottom to top, since it is backwards in time.)
http://s2.postimg.org/i2i7n1b7d/ell_1.pnghttp://pastebin.com/NF53hMJnBelow are screenshots of when she pasted in her Skyblock farms. (The clue here in the screenshot is that all the blocks were created the same second. Obviously you cant place blocks at the exact same time, so we looked at the logs and it showed she pasted the entire construct in.)
http://s25.postimg.org/9eb4xwjcv/2015_01_20_18_09_47.pnghttp://s25.postimg.org/zb4tain0f/2015_01_20_18_09_59.png--Complete Skyblock View Below--
http://postimg.org/image/vze8h6nar/These screenshots represent one more occasion where she abused W/e. She placed these items in her chest in the Overworld, copied them, and then pasted them into her Skyblock world. Check the time-stamps and the Placed/Removed chest contents.
(The unspecified action is because Logblock doesn't understand what the commands W/e use are doing. It recognizes that items have been created, but not how)
http://s25.postimg.org/ebopj0lbz/2015_01_20_18_09_02.pnghttp://s25.postimg.org/l0v8z16nz/2015_01_20_18_08_48.pngJanuary 24thAfter Discovering all of this evidence I had all of the senior staff reconfirm what we had found (Just to make sure we did not make any mistakes) All four of us agreed that there was sufficient information to confront her. So we waited until we could all be online and tried to ask her if she could explain all of this. At no point were any of us trying to gang up on her. We all went into this meeting with the hope that we had missed something or that there was some explanation for all of these incidents.
Elle quickly said that she could not explain them, and requested to step down. After talking with her for a few hours we were left with making a decision. She said that she had not done these things. It boiled down to something very simple. Elle is our friend, and we have played together for almost 2 years, we trust her, and so we decided not to have her step down. We told her that it would be okay, we would not hold it against her. Everything (I thought) was put behind us.
January 26thI was notified that Grizdale builds had started to disappear. Along with Embassies from Lomari. Now obviously this is alarming behavior in any situation. After that Grizdale the town fell. Migas informed me that the fall of Grizdale had cost him 2.5 million because when a town falls it has a tendency to destroy the protections on signs (IE Storage and Money signs). Armed with this information I took immediate action to stop further damage to any of our members. I Banned Elle under "Account compromised" until I could talk to her about what she was doing. I had/have no intention of not allowing her to leave. I just want to make sure that no one is harmed because of it. She made it very clear that she did not feel comfortable being here anymore, and has decided to leave.
February 1stI have been waiting for the time to write all this down, I was hoping that Elle would reconsider, that she would want to stay in the community that we have built. I also planned on not posting this at all, or not in this format. I never wanted to drag all this drama out in-front of everyone. But since enough rumors have flown about what the cause is, and who is involved. It has forced me to make this a public thing. Elle has stopped returning my messages, so that pretty much where everything stands. If anyone has questions, you can find me on Skype, ill be happy to clear things up.
