Tim, I just have a question for you. How is it that I logged onto Renderosity at about 1:00 in the afternoon or so and there was a big stink about this trial. Now I get home and log on later and find that all traces of the trial are gone, with the exception of the threads of outraged or jubiliant people talking. Did you guys decide to just pull everything down and make it disappear or did you figure it was over and that it now served no purpose to keep the info up? I mean seriously you make a decision to do this in public then when it appears that maybe it wasnt such s good decision you make it just go away. Umm wouldnt it seem more honest if the links and text were left up there and you said, sorry we screwed up and this wont happen again, or even hey tough luck you dont like it leave. Anything would have been good, except ripping it all down and pretending like it didnt happen. Man that is just wishy washy. I know I would have at least had more respect for you and your intentions if you hadnt cover it all up. At least Jeff is in the forums saying hey it happened good or bad it happened. Ahhh well I dont want to appear confrontational so I better go now, just a casual observation from someone who has just been riding this wave. Tim Yarborough

Since the discussion about it is not gone, it is not washed away. But the question about public trials should be answered. What happened? What will happen? Would be nice from tim to answer.

By the way, removing the trial if everybody is upset about it is okay, isn't it? Let them comment this later, after all it's weekend. ;)

The purpose of the vote was not to humiliate the member in question, it was to let the community have an opinion about how people should conduct themselves here. That was accomplished. The member has been banned and life goes on.

OK cool. Oh and Bantha was right it is the weekend I know I dont work on the weekend so I didnt mean for you to have to either. But good answer that was the type of thing I was talking about. A simple short stand. You got your point across to me. Mind you this is not saying I agree with what happened, but at least you stand by what you chose to do and that is a good thing. Timmy

Tim, It was a "trial" not a vote...because you did advertise it as a "trial" was not to get our "Opinion" on how people should conduct themselves, but whether or not to ban him...that is what you said...so tell it like it is. Embarassing? You will not be able to convince me that it never was your intention. Otherwise, you wouldn't have posted the message or even mentioned his name. Instead it would have been "Hey we are taking a poll on this type of behaviour, what do you think" But it wasn't. There it was for all to see, his post, his name. Do I think he should have been banned? No...not unless you want to start banning everyone who has been outraged, insulted and generally in a crappy mood this last week. I can even point to some of your mods that have behaved in a similiar fashion. A lot has been said in the heat of the moment, in the confusion that we have all been feeling. Edgenet has seen the membership turn on itself and rot from the inside out. I hope they are happy. (as if they care) The only people that I feel embarrassed for are the ones that decided on this fiasco "trial".