Ok i have done a lil digging around & found the original threads on the Soups petition.
Here is the 1st page of the thread at Sims Cave...
http://www.simscave.com/index.php?topic=7328.0With the explanation of it being hacked on page 7.
Reply #91 on: March 20, 2009, 03:08:50 pm »
My petition has indeed been hacked - by who, I don't know.
It would not surprise me IN THE LEAST if TSR had hacked into my petition. We all know they are fully capable of such a devious and dirty-handed trick, and they are the only ones, besides EA Games, who stand to lose from my petition being printed and mailed.
Under threat of the privacy of all signers being revealed here on the BBS, I've decided to close the petition to new signatures. The five signers we've gained since the petition was re-opened were already deleted from my view, proving this "hacker" is still actively stalking the petition. I don't want to compromise anyone's privacy, and most especially not to TSR, since I am well aware of what sort of damage they have no compunction whatsoever about causing.
Thank you to everyone who signed this petition. As stated previously on the BBS and in various other forums, I will be printing and mailing my letter to Electronic Arts in Redwood City, CA. I will be adding an addendum to my letter outlining the details of my hacked petition "adventures" and just how many signatures we received. If you would like to do more, I urge you to do one of two things: 1) write your own letter and mail it to EA Games, or 2) Copy/paste my letter and mail it to EA Games.
Electronic Arts
209 Redwood Shores Parkway
Redwood City, CA 94065
Attn: Nancy Smith
The petition was re-opened to new signatures - I'm not sure how or even WHO reopened it, since I haven't received any email from the petitiononline people - but I closed it again. I simply don't want to risk the privacy of anyone who signs. It sucks, but I'll definitely be sure to emphasize this happening in my letter!
So it seems the online petition was closed by the Soup. It was then re-opened by someone else or so the Soup says and then re-closed by her again.
It was not restored by the online petition site as i remembered or thought. I've also checked to see when Blue was last active on the Cave. She was last active
October 06, 2009, 08:53:58 am Then there is a few explanations as to Blues whereabouts here starting on page 3...
http://www.simscave.com/index.php?topic=12174.30Here is the open letter to EA by Blue Soup posted on the TS2 Official site on
Mar-02-09 05:53 PM GMT including the link to the petition for people to sign, responses from all the peeps who said they supported or signed the petition & the explanation of it being hacked.
http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?&openItemID=item.2,item.43,item.61,item.104,item.41,item.127,item.23&threadID=f56f1a1ad7f72664d6e5e4a708ae8a0e&directoryID=2&startRow=1Edited to add...Ok did a lil more digging. This is from Black Pearl Sims. Blue states here on page 8 that...
http://blackpearlsims.com/showthread.php?t=23824&highlight=petition&page=803-10-2009, 06:11 PM
Something happened to the petition. I did not close it, but it is closed and all the signatures are gone from the excel list it's supposed to generate. I've sent a support email and hopefully they'll be able to restore it, but I really have no idea (and didn't receive any email) as to what's happened.
And on page 9 she states...
03-18-2009, 04:12 PM
3 emails to them have gone unanswered so far. I'm nervous about the names and email addresses that are now who-knows-where. Because of that, I'm a little leery about starting another petition.
Then Katija posted a few threads down...
03-24-2009, 12:31 AM
I've checked and petition is back and running!!!
So the petition was down from around 3-10-2009 until it was restored on or about 3-24-2009.
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because not once have i posted any such request.