I rarely post here but, after reading the last 10 or so pages of this thread I'm so full of rage at what these assholes at TSR are doing that I want to kick them so hard!

I saw the sick pictures that replaced Shanow's updates at Garden of Shadows. I figured he was hacked by some random loser with too much time on their hands and reported it to the mods at GOS so they could either hide the thread or ask the members to stay away from the thread until the issue was solved. Seriously, those pictures were so horrible that I lost my appetite, so I'm sorry that Shan0w had to look for them all over the Internet to get rid of them. I'm also glad to see his thread back at GOS.

But now that I've read the whole story behind this incident, and what's WB going through, I can't believe these criminals are getting away doing that. This goes beyond the whole ethical dilemma of selling pixels or not, this is a serious problem and I hope you're able to solve it, WB. I don't know you, but I'm sure you don't deserve going through this situation because some sick criminal wants to get revenge on you.

I admit I'm also worried at what they are capable to do. I have an old, obsolete account at TSR, and although my username is way different than my regular one in the Sim communities, I once used my regular e-mail and password over there. I changed it after the BuggyB drama, but what if they still have it stored in a database? Can they really be trusted about the whole encrypting of passwords solution? Although I'm not an active filesharer, I'm openly pro-pirate in my community activities, so this is really upsetting me right now. I wish I were just overreacting.

Anyway, I wish you all luck, especially to WB. As I said, I hope the best outcome for your current problem and I wish the criminals that targeted you, Shan0w and other innocents in the past get what they deserve.

This is insane... it truly proves that once real money is involved, the sim community stops being fun.

Say what?! The Featured Artists earn up to 500 bucks per month?

That's a bit more than my monthly salary, for working 40 hours a week as a Special Education Teacher.

This makes me wonder how much does TSR earn from their activities.
I know Thomass salary is high enough to afford a new house, but I suspect the total earnings fof that site must be much higher than what I imagine.

I haven't looked at TSR, but that's exactly what happened with Windkeeper's file just before she/he/it (whoever it was) changed the profile page.

Well, considering the many odd events that have happened in this community in just a few months, that's understandable.

So now that I'm out of lurkdom, I guess I should say hello. I've been an avid reader for a long time, but I'm mostly active at Livejournal. Before I found the booty, I was actually looking for a way to subscribe to Exnemsims and Peggysims, so I thank you for showing me the truth.

*Waves*

Nah, I'm not her.

I'm just a long time lurker who was so surprised by that profile page that she came out of the shadows to share it with you  .

I was trying to browse through Windkeepers' files when I noticed I could no longer reach her stuff. I thought it was a glitch on the site due to their awful V7 code and forgot about it.

I've just gone back to her profile and found this:



Was TSR hacked?