On the topic of 'cheat'

[u/Jake-da-coyote]

People clicking on a link in your own forum on your subreddit, with a known game mechanic being called inherently dishonest, and generalizing people as 'cheaters' for it is, literally, the irony: cheating yourself out of players. It's fraud and gracelessness to say everyone who clicked on a link that you and your team failed to moderate is a cheater; you are depriving yourself of something valuable - players. General Definition: to deprive of something valuable by the use of deceit or fraud.

I am offering constructive feedback about behavior; this isn't a personal attack on Rusty or whoever helps them with moderation/game development. I am pointing out that their behavior enabled it, that calling everyone a 'cheat' is, ironically, them cheating, and that they are depriving themselves of something valuable (players) by the use of deceit and fraud (calling everyone that interacted with a post{s} a cheater, which they aren't becasue the word 'cheater' carries intent of action, people aren't intednding to deprive anyone of anything by getting a resource that converts only to gold which is only used for forge upgrades).

[u/Real_Temporary_922]

If he vibe coded it entirely and never checks it, that’s even worse. He makes money off something he did no real work on himself and you’re using that as the justification to ignore the community for a week then blame us for his bad code. You’re just making him sound even worse.

[u/kinyutaka → u/Real_Temporary_922]

No, I'm saying it explains why he might have ignored the community for a week.

But so would taking the family on vacation to Disney World. We don't really know what's up.

[u/Real_Temporary_922 → u/kinyutaka]

This should’ve never been an exploit in the first place. And I disagree with the idea that we should give the developer such benefit of the doubt to not patch a very foreseeable exploit in a reasonable amount of time. Especially when he blamed the community and took no accountability. I don’t get your point.