Deputies,
This has been a long time coming; the Deputy 26 contest is coming to an end. I had a vision this would be a fun experience for the community; individual users coming together to work in teams on something fun and creative, and working harmoniously with other teams to create a vast pool of user-generated content. Now many people and groups worked hard and produced some great stuff, and some let the competition aspect get the best of them. There will always be people looking to ruin things for others, and that seems to be the case here.
Things got out of control. Groups attacked each other, complained about the results, made accusations of cheating. Really rotten, uncalled for stuff. It got to the point where I had to clean house. Several Deputies and their group members were taken off the site recently, and a few Forum threads were removed from the boards completely. I made these moves to get all the hate off the site.
This is not a place for haters; I don’t want that attitude or behavior here. So we’re going to continue cleaning house until all the negativity and hate is gone for good. I am instituting a zero tolerance policy. If you attack another user, you’re gone. If you’re only posting angry, hateful, rude comments, you’re gone. I don’t need a reason to kick you out, so consider yourself warned.
Now that the Deputy 26 contest is over, we’re going to move the focus of the site back to the book series. You may see changes to the design as we prepare to launch Book 2. For those of you still coming every day and contributing, thank you for hanging in. We still have some amazing things in store for you, and we appreciate your loyalty and passion for Level 26.
Zuiker
This has been a long time coming; the Deputy 26 contest is coming to an end. I had a vision this would be a fun experience for the community; individual users coming together to work in teams on something fun and creative, and working harmoniously with other teams to create a vast pool of user-generated content. Now many people and groups worked hard and produced some great stuff, and some let the competition aspect get the best of them. There will always be people looking to ruin things for others, and that seems to be the case here.
Things got out of control. Groups attacked each other, complained about the results, made accusations of cheating. Really rotten, uncalled for stuff. It got to the point where I had to clean house. Several Deputies and their group members were taken off the site recently, and a few Forum threads were removed from the boards completely. I made these moves to get all the hate off the site.
This is not a place for haters; I don’t want that attitude or behavior here. So we’re going to continue cleaning house until all the negativity and hate is gone for good. I am instituting a zero tolerance policy. If you attack another user, you’re gone. If you’re only posting angry, hateful, rude comments, you’re gone. I don’t need a reason to kick you out, so consider yourself warned.
Now that the Deputy 26 contest is over, we’re going to move the focus of the site back to the book series. You may see changes to the design as we prepare to launch Book 2. For those of you still coming every day and contributing, thank you for hanging in. We still have some amazing things in store for you, and we appreciate your loyalty and passion for Level 26.
Zuiker