proteininja wrote:Valdrimari had a disagreement with another user on the website and asked me to ban that user. I did not agree to do so, so he threatened to remove all of his contributions and attack the site if I did not comply. I did not remove the user after these threats so he attacked the site and I banned his user. It is regrettable that his guide is no longer on the site but it was his choice to make.
I forgot to add that you have absolutely NO proof or logs whatsoever to show Valdrimari actually attacked the site, that and the site is still up and running. The worse Valdrimari said he did was pinged the site just enough times to send
you a message (in the event you can see those pings), yet not enough times required to actually disrupt or shut your entire site.
What
really happened is you banned Val
way before he even made the threat against your site. Therefore, Val said he only threatened to shut down your site
after you decided to choose an insulting gw2mb users' behavior over Valdrimari himself, who came to you about
not wanting toxicity on gw2mb.
Maybe you saw Val's threat as 'perceived risk', yet to believe he would do such a thing is ridiculous considering how generous he was to share his work with the GW2 community. He was clearly speaking out of anger. How can you blame him?
As shown in the evidence video he provided us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfDbXt7-oJ8 you placed
more value on gw2mb user, The Ben Efits, who caused all the uproar than on the very user who helped bring traffic to your site. Pro move, and while you were at it, you f'ed the GW2 community out of a massive amount of music he said he had reserved to publish!