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Onyxius wrote:
I think a lot of you guys are missing the point of this petition. Its not about the victims who got their social media exposed, it's about kaj making the site more secure. It's absurd that someone get a ban and keeps spamming a whole site, telling people to get cancer 10 times a minute without being stopped. This could happen to the English or the German server to.. We just want a more secure site where everyone can feel save without having to deal with hackers,spammers or just annoying individuals  

callum wrote:
it's not fair for y'all to say we're blaming you when we are just discussing the importance of being more safe online

MasileinDE wrote:

kind of
share a teeny tiny bit and risk it getting tracked down
it's the rules of the internet
don't like, don't go online


also, I know you all just want the admins to prevent someone from entering the site, but that won't make the problem of people being too careless with their information go away
as harsh as this may sound, but this is a great teaching moment for some of them

Requentes wrote:
Also guys, please remember that the problem is not the fact that information was shared on a whole server but that it's literally possible to spam users and send hundreds of thousands messages in a short amount of time.

Like, we had a few weeks ago that the person who did this, send us to a NewsTeam article saying "hahahaha your cancer moms" and we all got that over 100 times in less than 2 or 3 minutes. And the worst thing of that is that this spammer got banned and keeps coming back. The fact that this is possible to do is just sad. 

Again: The whole thing is not about people getting their info leaked but about getting spammed and Kaj not doing anything about this.

MasileinDE wrote:

kind of
share a teeny tiny bit and risk it getting tracked down
it's the rules of the internet
don't like, don't go online


also, I know you all just want the admins to prevent someone from entering the site, but that won't make the problem of people being too careless with their information go away
as harsh as this may sound, but this is a great teaching moment for some of them

theBlondeSalad wrote:
Please read this thread back a bit more carefully. Several "solutions" have been proposed that should work. In addition, this isn't a "new" problem. This spammer has been active for a long period now, and that Kaj choose to ignore it when it was basically just a lot of swearing and disrespectful comments........ I guess I can sort of accept that, but now personal information is being spammed around the site multiple times in a short time span Kaj should take action and he can.

theBlondeSalad wrote:
sharing your fist name =/= being deserving of being targeted by a spammer who shares a lot more than just your first name with the entire server 

but let's stick to agree to disagree because I don't need to see more victim blaming comments honestly. yes online security is important, but I shouldn't have to be scared to share a teensy tiny bit of personal info (as in idk "I study law" because it might back track to someone exposing my phone number and where I live).

Deemxoxo wrote:
It has nothing to do with being more safe online tho. Most people were very safe with sharing personal stuff (and didn't share anything except for their first name), but somehow he managed to find it. And even if you share more personal information to close VP friends, these things shouldn't happen. 

But the thing is that most information can be easily found, I agree, but that does not mean that someone should link the information to accounts and send it to the whole server again and again. But, those things can happen if someone wants to. Buuuuttttt our problem is that the spammer is still able to spread people's privacy sensitive information through VP. It started like 40 hours ago or something and it is up to the community's Admin to make sure that the privacy of its players is protected. Kaj doesn't do anything about that and that's so wrong. This is already very harmful, but imagine what other things could be sent to a lot of players through VP mail if there isn't a (temporary) system to stop players like him. If someone has wrong intentions, this website is reallllllly not safe. And Kaj's just sitting there counting is money from people that care more about pixel outfits than about ethics and in the meanwhile he lets things like this happen on HIS community. 

You can say whatever you want about being safe online and of course all those things are fair, but the main problem that the topic maker and other people are stating is the problem about Kaj not taking responsibility for this shit and let his platform being used for harmful purposes. That's our problem.

BloomCissi wrote:
Okay, this makes a lot more sense now. The fact that Kaj isn't capable of/can't be bothered to do something about this just shows how little he cares about the site.

xLolox wrote:
what strikes me is that on the Dutch server everyone is supportive, & really want this problem (and many more) to be fixed. But here on the English server, & I'm not trying to be mean whatsoever, but you'll don't seem to understand the problem... and you are doing your best not to understand, you'll are not even TRYING. All the problems going on/around VP, we want them to be gone & feel safe on a platform we enjoy spending time.   (Tried my best with my English)

MasileinDE wrote:
ok, clearly I get the asshole card for not cuddling people for making mistakes that literally are written in the rules, so I'm out of here
but just consider why this is not so much VP's issue as it is your personal one




(and about the spam, because you all say you only care about the spam, but then again you make the biggest point about people feeling unsafe because now everyone knows who they are, make up your mind, the spam issue is being handled as best as the admins and mods on VP can. but I can promise you, Kaj doesn't care a single bit about your private problems - which this is - and trying to find a fault in the admins and mods is just as unnice as me saying "maybe don't share your data if you don't want people to be able to track you down"

Requentes wrote:
Like it is possible for example to limited messages you can send, and once you reach a certain level you can message people because I bet that nobody is gonna sit down for 2 or 3 days to gain fans just to spam people and repeat the process. 
But the fact that Kaj doesn't sit down just to think about what's happening and going on here and just fixes this shit is really sad.