Universal Sims...

[missangelica]

And er, I'm only remembering Nathan asking on n99 to take down personal information, not Delphy.  Someone link me to where Delphy said it?

ETA:  Dully noted, Hidetherum. :lol:

[Feverish]

It's a bitch trying to search this place for specific posts.
This is all I was able to recover(I refuse to search anymore):
http://phorum.mustnotbenamed.com/viewtopic.php?t=48&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=pedophile&start=75

[missangelica]

It's a bitch trying to search this place for specific posts.
This is all I was able to recover(I refuse to search anymore):
http://phorum.mustnotbenamed.com/viewtopic.php?t=48&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=pedophile&start=75

Ah, so it was just BlueSoup's decision to remove it and wasn't a request.  Thanks for scrounging that up.  Interesting how one's influence can extend even when they're no longer around, eh?

[Tchannie]

I read about that sometime last year. It was pretty weird at the time, and I was disgusted for a while. But as someone said, your need stretches further than your appreciation.
My appreciation for MTS2 has now fully died.
However, it does not stop Delphy being scum, nor Bluey being infuriating by deleting the first post when there was a chance it would tell people what he's REALLY up to...

[sherrie]

I don't know why people are avoiding direct linking to the news article.  Read it for yourself.  

http://archive.thisishampshire.net/2001/6/25/73971.html

In the MATY thread of "Wow!  These(sic) Stuff are so Expensive!" Delphy even admits to it.  It's not pure speculation people.  It is real.  Life is an ugly reality.  

I wonder how many under aged kids sent him panty pictures.  He was known in the mts2 chat for having a panty fetish.

Thank you for that link, it clears a lot up, the story is nothing like the one I heard and it actually clears his name from the story that is going about.

[missangelica]

Thank you for that link, it clears a lot up, the story is nothing like the one I heard and it actually clears his name from the story that is going about.

You're welcome!  I was growing weary of the all speculation (including mine) with no concrete proof for all the stuff that has been going with the UniversalSims/MikeInside controversies.. at least with this, Delphy's conviction of under age porn, we know it to be true.  It also makes Delphy's darker side more "real" and harder to gloss over..

[redisenchanted]

To answer the question why he isn't drummed out of the community...That doesn't happen very often in RL. The most disgusting perverts are excused and allowed continued access to kids. Guys that have been convicted of far worse than Delphy.

Read the post at MATY, most people wanted to give him a pass. And when Damesporkalot posted it at S2C, everyone rushed to defend him, poor misunderstood Delphy with a stranglehold on one of the biggest Sims 2 communities.

I'm glad it's finally out in the open. People can judge for themselves if this is someone they want to give money to.

[Lorelei]

It does sound minimized: "Oh, we all have porn on our hard drives - so what?"

Geez. I don't have any. Unless scans of fine art with nekkid Cupids and fat nekkid ladies in velvet blankets and nekkid Sim skins are now considered porny.

I feel left out.

[Diala]

I certainly believe it - and think there was more to it.  I think the whole thing at MATY was minimised a lot, and I don't agree.  Prosecutors have limited budgets, and don't just hand out court cases like the state is made of money.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=4098.0

When I first read that thread, I wasn't able to see the article in question, so I assumed that the police discovered images of older teens on his HD that he thought were adults. At least, that is what they made it sound like. Now... I don't quite know what to think.

[neriana]

It sounds to me like Delphy had some pictures of older teens in porn. Disgusting, but not pedophilic. It's impossible to tell the ages of the people in the pictures from that article. Also, it was years ago.

This is an incredibly touchy subject for most people, and people are all too prone to form witch hunts over it. He was convicted of having porn, apparently of older teens, on his hard drive. Not of luring young girls to his house or something. There is a difference, and a big one.

If he had anything to do with the new forum which was apparently created for the purpose of sexually using teenage girls, whether in cyberspace or irl, then Delphy definitely deserves to be kicked off the internet and out of the community. But not for what has actually been proven against him in that article.

[Feverish]

No it was child porn:
http://archive.thisishampshire.net/2001/6/25/73971.html

[chlyn]

How convenient for Delphy to admit to liking imagery of more socially acceptable "older teens". Of course, no one wants to think of themselves as a pervert. When he says "no one who accuses me knows the real me," he's in denial.

I don't believe he just downloaded a bunch of porn and "uh-oh, there was some kiddie porn in it, and I forgot to delete it." You don't accidentally stumble on and download 30 images of children.

Now that N99 has this tiger by the tail, it will be interesting to see if anything comes of it. Probably not, though /yawn/. Just another typical sims community happening.

[Feverish]

And  if it was really an accident, why would he not immediately delete the porn?
I think laziness is a very poor excuse to keep child porn.

[neriana]

I read the article. Nowhere does it say the age of the people in the porn. "Child porn" can very well mean 16 and 17 year olds, at least in the U.S. If someone has different info about Hampshire, I'm all ears.

Also, "He had not been seeking out child pornography but didn't do anything about weeding out those images involving children." That sounds more like (rather despicable) laziness to me than anything. We all know the kind of crap that can get downloaded on our hard drives without us knowing. I once got a virus that downloaded a ton of porn onto my hard drive and locked my start page to a porn page that had all sorts of links, including to "young teen girls" porn.

And, most tellingly, "a pre-sentence report stated he did not present a risk to children". I don't think we know more than the cops and counselors who gave that report.

Until there is actual evidence otherwise, Delphy has done nothing within the community or without it for the past few years to deserve being metaphorically hanged for society's latest bugaboo. Again, if there is credible evidence that he was behind this Universal Sims thing, I'll be at the head of the mob with a pitchfork.

[missangelica]

Both of the controversial threads have now been locked on N99 so I don't expect much more to come out of it.  :/  Still, I hope this isn't buried under the rug yet again for more scandal to come to pass...