Insim under new management!

[Lorelei]

You know, each time I start to reconsider and give Walt the benefit of the doubt and accept that he's a possibly gullible victim of K&E's duplicity, greed, lies and treachery, and each time I start to consider feeling a teeny bit sorry for the poor old fool, he goes and does or says something so incredibly asinine, idiotic and / or douchey that I can't be bothered to feel any mercy for the asinine, idiotic, douchebaggy DUMBASS anymore.

YAAAAAARRRRRR!!!!
PIRATEY RAEG!!!!!!
KEELHAUL THE BASTARD!
NO MERCY!

*passes around rum caek*

[Ali]

I had to chuckle at a few parts of this email that Walt sent me earlier today after I enquired what the hell was going on:

Hi Ali,

Thanks for writing. I've had some professional server administrators looking at the server the past couple of days, and they confirm that the problem is that the sites are getting more traffic than the server can handle. I'm going to order a new server today with about twice the horsepower. It usually takes quite a few days to complete a transfer of sites to a new server. Under normal circumstances, I would expect the full process to take a week or so.  I'm going to try to accelerate that process as much as I can. While I don't currently have a clear ETA, that's about the best I can tell you. The site access problems are making it hard for me to connect, too, so everything I try to do is dragged down to a slow crawl.

I'm hopeful that once we get everything transferred over to the new server and have the site activated there that most of the server problems will be behind us. Unfortunately, I can't be sure because of the chaotic nature of all that's going on. About the best I can do is to keep trying.

There's a group of very angry users, led by someone named J.M. Pescado, who apparently gained administrative access to the control panel (someone put him in the Administrative group...I don't know who did it) and posted a new home page message entitled Viva La Revolucion which led to a thread where he announced that he has acqured all the website files and is threatening to create a clone somewhere else if I don't accept $500 token payment for everything and go away. A lot of people have posted messages in support of what he's doing. There have been hints that they're engaged in denial of service attacks against the site, but I can't verify that's true. I've removed the home page listing and pulled him out of the administrative group.

Walt

and then when I asked him why he'd made some of the hidden boards public:

I'll see if I can get those threads straightened out. I'm still learning the admin control panel myself, so it may take me awhile

still learning?? Isn't that something that you should really know how to do beforehand??

[Pescado]

Well, he can't verify that it's true, because it's not.

[Aoife]

Wow, he doesnt know a thing about the admin control panel so he demotes the people that do. Smart move!

[Neptune]

eledhel: that email is hilarious thanks for sharing 

[Simlover]

What sort of a brain surgeon do you have to be to figure out that the server can't handle the traffic?  He is a web developer but needed a team of experts to tell him this?  I think he is full of crap to be honest

[Paden]

Fucker can't tell the difference between heavy traffic and dos attacks? Who let him out of his cave?! I nominate him to the highest echelon of the the Douche Waffle Brigade...

[Genlisae]

eledhel: Thank you for sharing that. It was enough to bring me out of lurking.

I had just been sitting here catching up again and starting to feel a little sorry for Walt who I thought must be very confused by now. Now I realize that confusion takes a certain level of intelligence that he obviously doesn't have.

[vindi]

Someone should reply to him with a link to wikipedia's page on DoS/DDoS attacks.
I can't believe this man with all of his 'professionals' and what not can't figure how to work the admin panel so that Walt Dismal doesn't fuck up the site more.

[AW]

ROFL....he evidently doesn't know that you need no help, Pes.  Maybe you should offer your services at a reasonable price.  Recoup some of our monies and get us a new cheez server.  

Ali...nicely done.  You are a definitely a rum-worthy pirate.

Bravo Lorelei!  That's exactly how I felt at first until I read more. I hadn't seen the financial model that Devilfish (and thank you very much for that) posted until last night.  We don't know what sob story Walt was given and what information was presented that made Insim seem like a profitable venture.  However, he could have and should have researched his purchase much more than he did.  K&E didn't pay for those creator files, they only hosted them.  If I was going to invest that amount of money, you can bet your case of rum that I'd have become a member and had an observation period to follow with a transitional period of 30-60 days prior to any money changing hands.  

This reminds me of a used car that is actually a lemon.

[FreeShitOnly]

"There's a group of very angry users, led by someone named J.M. Pescado..."

Priceless

[Paleoanth]

I like the part where he is going to sink more money into the site by buying another server. 

[Nec]

That email was hilarious, Eledhel! He really is A #1 DoucheBag.  

[Missbonbon]

  What an awesome thing to read to make my day a little bit better. And with him saying that, it will only make our InSim clone that much more enjoyable once it opens.

[Requip]

That is priceless, I spewed on my monitor. 
Again, thanks dollface, NEC and anyone else who manages to take screenies and post them for us less fortunate.