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What I would like to say regarding this whole issue with Rory...
For those of you who know nothing and would like to know, and for those of you who think you know everything, and also those of you who know something and this is just more of the same thing...
First of all, I want to start with letting everyone know that in no way does this change the way that TNB is being run. It will remain only Angel and myself running it, and at no time will Rory be able to access the mule. I have also asked Rory to remain out of the thread, to not post in it or become persistent in being allowed or accepted back by anyone who does post in it. He is being understanding of my request, and as my friend is respecting my wishes and still remaining my friend.
I understand too that many of you have your likes and dislikes regarding Rory, and that is your choice. I will not choose sides and I will not ask any of you to put aside your feelings for him because of your friendship with me. I respect your feelings and I would never expect you to change them for me. If any of you ever wish to express your feelings about him to me, please feel comfortable that you may do so and not feel as though you will anger me or make me not like you anymore. Also, feel assured that your comments to me are confidential and I would never tell him against your wishes what you have said.
I want to start with what I have to say, back on a day when we were all posting in the old thread and just chatting and having what I thought was a good time in what I thought was a great thread. I logged on early one morning, early enough that the thread was still pretty much dead and not many people were online on my msn list. I happened to be looking through the pages of the thread when I came across the name of a "n00b" avi that was next to one of Rory's posts. I then went to my friends list and saw that that name was in fact one of Rory's accounts. My first thought..."OMG, here we go again with yet another claim of being hacked." And sure enough, when he logged on that was his exclamation...that he had been hacked. So I listened as he did what everyone else does when they are hacked. He said he reported the account as being hacked and throughout the day he made a new account and went on his way to recover what he had lost. In the days to come he would pm back and forth with the supposed hacker and he allowed himself to become consumed with the taunts the hacker was doing to him with the account. Days later he told me that he had received a pm from someone claiming to be on the account and that they had purchased it from a hacker and that they had felt bad and wanted to return his items to him...so one by one the person gifted them to him or traded them, which ever, he received his items back. All the while I kept telling him that he needs to contact a mod and let them know that should gaia find him with items from his hacked account that are now labeled as hacked he would surely end up banned. Sure enough, days later he ended up with three of his accounts banned along with my mule, TehNewBeeginning. I was shocked...horrified and scared. Never have I ever been in trouble with Gaia. In my two plus years of being on gaia I had only received 2 pm's from a mod with a warning for calling someone an a** hole. Never had I been banned, nor had I ever been hacked. I was angry as you all know and didn't know what to believe. Was my friend a liar and a hacker/scammer as everyone had said? I was very mean to him. Said mean things. And with the recent hacking of our friend Kana, I was sure that everyone was right and that he was in fact that hacker. I said many things to everyone I spoke to letting them know that I knew that he had done it because of the items that Kana had said she lost were the same items that were equipped on an account that he was then using. A blue body dye that I had given to Kana had been donated from his new account to another member of the thread. I was sure he had done it. And I told him I thought as much as I explained this to him and asked if he could understand how it made things look against him. He understood and claims it's just a bad coincidence. Today (2/12/09) he msn'd me early in the morning and told me he had received an e-mail from an admin saying that his account was going to be given back to him and if I had heard anything on our mule. I was pissed...how could they give him back an account worth 8mil when he had done so many things? All of these accounts and mine too had been blamed for hacking/profiting from hacking...and they gave him back his account? I quickly checked my e-mail and had found that the admin had asked for me to file a hacking report based on my explanation of what happened. I responded to him that I didn't see where a hack report was in order, as I had explained this was a shared mule and that Rory had just received one of his accounts back which should show that the name of this account should be cleared, that it has done no wrong. The admin answered that even though it has done no wrong, sharing an account is breaking TOS in itself, and therefore the account would remain permanently banned. I was angry. I responded to him that it was fine, they could leave it banned. Everyone who has a thread shares a mule, and many people share passwords even if it isn't a mule. But that was fine. But I asked that if he would just check records on the account names that I gave him, he would find that what I was telling him was fact. I got a reply not too long later...I was being informed that all accounts mentioned had now been restored, that they were no longer banned. I now have my original mule back, and Rory now has all of his accounts back.
Now, for those of you who may not even believe that they had been banned...trust me they were, even Angel can account for that. Now that I know what to look for when an account is banned, trust me when I tell you this...if you ever claim that your account was banned, you better be telling the truth, because now I know how to check and see if the account is truly banned. And Rory's accounts were truly banned. So don't ever think for a second that you can claim that it is when it really isn't.
So, why am I telling you all of this? Yes, in some ways I hope to clear Rory's name as a hacker. Do I think he hacked Kana? The evidence sure is stacked up against him, and I am not certain that he didn't. Sorry Rory, sad but true. I will always in the back of my mind wonder, after all, it really does look like you did it. I am not trying to make any of you change your mind about him. Think as you will. I respect your opinions, and can't say that I don't agree with you. Part of me does. That is why I am sticking strong behind Angel and the many of you who wants a "Rory free" thread. Trust has been hurt badly, and it will take some time for it to heal. For some of us, it may never heal. For others it may already have.
Does this mean that I now trust Rory completely? No, sorry I still don't. I have a hard time really trusting anyone on the internet. And now my trust for Rory needs to be rebuilt. I am human, the same as the rest of you. My trust gets hurt too. I find though that my ability to forgive and forget comes easier than many of you, and yet many of you are better at it than I am. That is what makes us individual. So no, I don't completely trust Rory. And right now, like the rest of you, I don't want to see him in the thread. Right now he needs to be my friend off of Gaia. He can chat with me on msn, and whatever he does on Gaia, he doesn't do it in TNB.
I know this is long, and I thank you for reading it. It is just my attempt to explain what happened the best I can and to let you all know that even though it appears he did no wrong with his current accounts and with TehNewBeeginning, doesn't mean he is completely innocent, but he isn't completely guilty either. I know that with Kana's case he will always be blamed for hacking her. I know that there are others of you who also feel that it is he who hacked your accounts. Who am I to say you are wrong? I won't say that. It is only you as the account owner that knows the truth.
 Allie Jane · Fri Feb 13, 2009 @ 01:07am · 0 Comments |
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