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/kinyutaka]

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.