It was decided (well in advance of Alias' protest) that from 12 noon UK time the moderating team would go on a 4 day strike.
Alias' valid and well worded protest arrived at an ideal time to prove the point that as much as we are resented the moderating team are required.
Due to the ensuing flame wars and unpleasant behaviour the strike was cut to a single day in an emergency thread started after a discussion between two members of the moderating team.
We came into the possession of a MSN log that detailed a plan by current and banned members to stage an attack on E-Studios.
This was prevented by a single account suspension and requiring each account to be admin validated before posting could commence.
Neither the supplier of the log, nor the member of the moderating team in question shall be named.
For the behaviour over the 24 hour period of strike warnings may well be handed out.
The strike from the view of the moderating team worked as planned.
We would like to dispel rumours about admins editing posts, and can provide a screen shot of the 'moderator editing log' for the thread in question.
When we had news of a potential attack we did backup the server causing a short blackout.
Alias raised some good points about inactive moderators and it is the intention of the moderating team to act on these points.
Finally, an explaintion about the 'The truth' threads for people who don't play politics and don't drag other people's name into the mud.
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I just want to tell that a few months ago there was a bit of a fight between both Eve and Stinger that went pretty far and caused a lot of shit to happen such as Stinger looking up things about NeutromKiller which is in fact a friend of her in RL but because they had similar writing styles in the past days and a few other things that were hinting at the fact that Eve would be his secret identity this was not the case.
However there was no solid proof that he was right or wrong so eventually it led into other people getting involved which also got to see those images and stuff that were used today and yesterday in those "The Truth" thread.
I was involved with a voice chat with EVE and this dispelled the rumour to me.
Stinger and Eve are not exactly friends but not enemies either now and those people from the "Truth" threads were just tearing open old wounds that were starting to heal up again.
I would like to point out that not all of the moderators get on (or even agree on everything) and it is not a problem for team members to disagree.