DCEmulation Update

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:08 pm

I can see the side of keeping things going, but that doesn't give anyone the right to move content without permission.
Or am I still missing something?

Post by **Caboose** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:23 pm

racketboy wrote:I can see the side of keeping things going, but that doesn't give anyone the right to move content without permission.
Or am I still missing something?

Nope, you're not missing anything, and you are completely right.

Post by **Caboose** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:45 pm

Sorry to bump this, but I just want to let anyone who is interested know that the site is now running under a new URL, http://www.dcemulation.org, sans the political bullshit.

Post by **|darc|** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:15 am

Sorry for the big bump; I've lurked around here a bit before but haven't been around in a while and I just saw this post and I figured I would clear things up because this heavily pertains to me. I am the head admin of DCEmulation.

The whiner in the email has owned the domain name for the site since it was created, but has done little else for the site besides sit back and pocket ad revenue for a site he didn't even pay to host. Several site splits have happened by staff who were fed up with his abuse, so anyone familiar with the history of the site will not be surprised in the least by this happening. Usually when this happens he just clears the ban list and gives admin permissions to people who didn't like the previous admins. Eventually the site returns to normalcy. Both Consolevision (now dead) and DCEmu.co.uk were born out of site splits from DCEmulation. Last time there was a split, I was offered a position to be promoted from Global Moderator to Admin to renovate and fix up the site, which I took, and I've been working on it for a few years.

We were going to move the site to a new host that I would pay for so we could remove all the advertising once and for all (he claimed the ads were for the free host, but the majority of them were his, which he made a few thousand dollars off of in the early, early years). Last second, he demanded that we instead move to a server he would pay for, which he would put ads up on to compensate. More of the same. Although we moved to his server, the staff at the site finally convinced him not to put any ads up. And things were fine for a few months. But recently he's come back and tried to step on the work that the staff has been doing by posting his game reviews on the front page of the site and bringing up the advertising issues again, claiming that the site's costs were too much, even though the site was hosted on the side as part of a shared server package that he used for many other personal things. He was trying to get free stuff from game companies for doing reviews on his blog, but his review site did not meet the requirements to get networked with sites like MetaCritic, so he hijacked our front page, which did have an Alexa rating high enough. Some staff started removing the crap, but he wound up banning one of the DC scene's most prominent developers over all of this, which put some important projects' futures in question.

Over Easter weekend, the site's active staff got together privately and voted to move the site to a new server and domain name, so that's what happened. Of course he is angry that his high-traffic, profitable domain has become quite useless, so he has tried to bring back the site several times (with advertising, now, as you can see) but the people he has given admin permissions to have just trashed the new forums because no one is actually on his side. He doesn't even really know how to use the forum software, either, and has given one of his personal friends admin permissions, who opened up all private forums to the public and leaked private code and FTP passwords for related DC scene sites.

The issue is a big mess, but the site and its entire staff has now moved to http://dcemulation.org/. The person to whom he is referring as a "hacker" is me, because I am the one who actually moved the site to begin with, as I am the head admin. He has no legal grounding, because he actually doesn't own anything on the site. The biggest problem now will be making sure the public is informed that the site has moved. The site backup he has restored is from 2005, before I started my renovations on the site, and it unfortunately contains a lot of misinformation, outdated information, and flat out wrong information. But since he actually hasn't been involved with the scene in years, he doesn't even realize it's so bad.

Anyway, form whatever opinion from it that you will, but this is our side of the story.

Post by **Ramatut4001** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:05 am

whoa.

Post by **racketboy** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:20 am

Interesting. Thanks for clearing this up.
Just too bad you don't have control of the .com

Best of luck to you all!