Fraud

If you've gone to check the point transfer feature recently, you might have seen this: "Temporarily Closed".  Oh my, now why could that be? Well, it's to prevent the spreading around of illegitimately earned points.  I'm just going to cut straight to the point today.  I honestly don't feel like typing a blog entry, but this is something that should probably be said so I'm forcing myself to put out the effort.  Somebody was purposely abusing a glitch in order to gain excess points that should have never even existed.  Not going to go into specifics here as I only have a vague idea of how it was done myself, and it would just be wrong for me to tell you all how to cheat.  The user has been banned now, you might have known them as Hiathen, but I'm not here to talk about the member.  If you thought inflation was bad before, just imagine it with thousands more points... yeah, not good.  Obviously, Karlos has had to remove all the unlawful gains.  Problem is, some of those points were already sent to other members, unknowing of the glitch, who had actually earned them.  Before you go and argue that they should get to keep the points, just consider that they never would have earned such phenomenal amounts from it to begin with.  Account sales, art sales, doesn't matter.  Who in their right mind steps in and bids 1,000 points out of the blue? Not saying that the items wasn't worth it, but regular people... you know, those on a budget, would bid just above the previous bidder in an attempt to get a better deal.  No one would pop in and bid such an insane amount just because they wanted to speed up their win.  Well, I guess I can't vouch for everyone, but that's how I see it at least.  As for custom templates already uploaded, it seems like Karlos is trying his best to be fair about it.  Like in Dae's situation, she's gonna be able to sell the accounts with her customs already uploaded.  That seems like a great way to make up for the sudden revoke of points to me.  Especially since she might be able to get some extra from the account details.  That and the bidder doesn't have to donate again to use the template since it is already up.  Bah, I'm rambling. :| I wanted to make this a shorter entry.  Anyhow, the fraud was some major shit.  I'm talking huuugge, like £3000 worth of points, and it ended up costing Wolf-Haven nearly $1500.  So before you go and complain about losing points, the delay on transferring them, or about how it was dealt with, I want you to imagine you were the owner of Wolf-Haven when that happened.  How would you handle it? This is no mere walk in the park.  Be grateful you don't have to directly deal with that kind of thing.  I know I am.  Owning a website isn't all fun and games.  Wanna help? Do your part by being patient and understanding.  That's all I can say.