Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Strange goings on at Daz

Paloth opened this issue on Aug 28, 2011 · 283 posts


Penguinisto posted Tue, 06 September 2011 at 8:35 AM

Quote - > Quote - summary of a bunch of weird crap

to be fair, reading that stuff it sounds like at least some of them admit what they were doing was out of line (post by Sunfire).

Good call. I was too busy having fun with it after confirming the fake account business. Once I saw that, it all started making sense.

No dramatics this time (in spite of a killer scenario of the Film Noir detective lighting a ciggie in the parlor, and... damnit! anyrate, serious analysis now):

My supposition is that the PTB over at DAZ saw some disruptive crap, realized that the IP addys of the disruptors matched those of certain posters there*, banned all accounts using those addys within the same time period, and 'ginned up a list. A quick Google search likely found the same fake account names being discussed at FGPlus, by many of the selfsame freshly banned yokels, which prompted the letter.

The letter and the bannings likely happened within an hour of each other, which is why we have the 'OAMG I got banned!' posts so close to the FGPlus forum mod doing a public display of it.

It was presented to the masses as a First Amendment Crisis (yes, I know there's no First Amendment on the Internet, bear with me)... in which the ban-ees were crying to all whom they think cared that they were unjustly banished,'woe is me', 'DAZ is going to go bankrupt because I won't buy their stuff anymore', etc.

Some of the suckers bought it hook, line, and sinker. It didn't sound right when it was presented as a case example of speech issues here, so I started asking questions here. 

Thanks to a bit of pecking, it was put to rest, and we all learned stuff. Even got a few laughs out of it along the way... and a mental image of enemas that damnit, I'm going to be unfortunately stuck with for a day or two.

But yeah - pretty interesting nonetheless.