Wasn't Arcturus supposed to be perma-banned?
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Arcturus has been unbanned because after reconsidering the situtation in which he was banned under and other circumstances that came up over the past couple of days, the administration team has come to the conclusion that he is to be unbanned.
Arcturus will be acting as a white hat for the development team as well. He will be looking for security holes and informing us of them so they can be fixed.
The administration team will be keeping a close eye on him and if he does step out of line he will be banned again according to the new rules.
Arcturus will be acting as a white hat for the development team as well. He will be looking for security holes and informing us of them so they can be fixed.
The administration team will be keeping a close eye on him and if he does step out of line he will be banned again according to the new rules.
Thaily
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Has the administration considered that due to Arc's obvious untrustworthy nature he's likely to only tip you off on a few small security holes and leave the considerable ones open for the next time he gets banned for being a twat so he can get himself unbanned again in this manner?
In fact, isn't that what he's already done in the past?
In fact, isn't that what he's already done in the past?
If Arcturus or any other hacker is banned from the site, they will cause more damage. Banning does not stop them from hurting the site.
The decision was made between having constant attacks or making a compromise and having a possible ally. Arcturus was willing to become an ally and we extended the olive branch in return.
This decision was not made in haste. Please reconsider your judgement.
The decision was made between having constant attacks or making a compromise and having a possible ally. Arcturus was willing to become an ally and we extended the olive branch in return.
This decision was not made in haste. Please reconsider your judgement.
KurtBatz said:
I am well aware about WTFur and the other activities that Arcturus has been up to. But what does art theft have anything to do with an art site? Even if Arcturus gained access to the entire database somehow, all he would have access to is the images anyone else can get off the site. I do not support WTFur but I do not believe that helping us is in any way hindered by these other activities.
Thaily said:
As far as I know Arcturus is the only user with a permanant ban. He is getting what I think is his second chance as far as I know. I don't know the entire history but I am willing to give him one chance under this.
He is not getting any sort of special treatment, if we banned anyone for any other reason and we later figure we were wrong in our judgement or the rules change, we will unban.
KurtBatz said:
All of the above things occured during the previous ban. As shown by that, the bans are obviously not stopping him from doing anything against the site. So as I said above. It was either removing the ban and getting a possible ally or continuing the ban and having the problems just continue to occur. I believe that this is the better response.
KurtBatz said:
No it was not my decision alone. I did make the deal but it was discussed between myself and members of the administration team before it went through.
KurtBatz said:
Yes, he has been associated as the boogeyman for very long on this site. And a number of the instances that you bring up have been later been proven also not to be him either.
KurtBatz said:
This decision has been discussed among the entire adminstration staff and we have decided that this is the best solution for the moment. If they want to pull me out over this I will gladly take my leave.
KurtBatz said:
Two parts to this. If he was a moron, would it be possible for him to attack the site? I don't think so, we have been closing things off left and right at every possiblity so it's been harder and harder to find the new holes to get in on.
We have been closing off holes whenever we find ones and we find a few every few days. It's good progress and they are being closed off. But I don't have enough time to hack the site myself and neither do other people on the staff. We can fix holes when they come to us.
Yes, Arcturus was responsible for the latest outage of furaffinity. I have no problems admitting that.KurtBatz said:
KurtBatz said:
I do not wish to infuriate the users of this site. I do not plan on rewarding him either. We have done nothing other than give him his username back, and even given him more work as he can no longer just hack and bring down the site, but he must inform us of how he did it, or the ban will come down on him again. It is not a reward in the least.
KurtBatz said:
The reason he started doing it was because we did not treat him with some modicum of respect. He is not a "drooling fucktard" because otherwise he wouldn't be able to do what he has been possible of doing. And even things thought to be permanant eventually wither away. Things change.
Thaily said:
I haven't forgotten about this comment. His site is being sued for copyright infringment because of users posting works by artists which do not allow that. It might have been phrased wrong but I don't believe that from anything he might gain from having an account on FurAffinity would hurt any more than any other random user, at which point that user will just have to deal with the consequences of his actions.
Suule said:
I am at best a very vauge aquaintence of his. The most we have discussed has mostly involved FurAffinity in some way. I might seem to be defending him in this thread. But this is only because this is my reasoning behind the decision. But there are absolutely no personal feelings between us that are influencing this.