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Might want to stay clear of the offical RPG Maker forums for a while...

I dont know if many of you are aware of this but over the last week some hacker or spam bot more likely has hijacked the offical RPG Maker forums (US) and every so often it redirects you to a spam website. I stupidly posted a new post on the feedback forums of that site today about it seeing that the post about it before started on the 5th and it still hadnt been fixed, i guess i should have just read the commments on the other thread but ...either way apparently there is some "IT/marketing guy" I wont share names as i dont tend to start a gossiping war here. its all there if you care to look. Has been aware of the issue but apparently it has something to do with the forum software they use that there is a hole in it which the makers of the forum software have yet to "patch". the problem is his replies are quite hostile towards the users who are ticked off over it. and he even locked the main thread about it. Seems very unprofessinal handling of such a situation. when i shared about it to another staff member in the forums apparently they defended him and called me rude.

However it seems this guy Is more then just an it guy. if you report any issues with the forums oddly enough it directs you to their marketing email and the forums iteself state it is the "community administrator"s contact. ...and lo and behold it turns out to be him. I just dont get why they are letting some guy who is apparently the admin/it guy AND marketing contact who does not behave in a professional way on the forums at all. (i would think a major IT blunder would be to publicity state the vulnerability issue in the forums iteslf being the forum software they are using.....)

he more or less is just saying "oh i tried to restart it 3 times ...but its a hole in their software and quite bugging me..."

what gets me is this is not some fan forum this is the official forums for the us version....

sighs. Really frustrating and really frustrating that i wish i could contact someone above this guy about it...but my guess is the forums are handled as bare bones and mostly by volunteers seeing as the main company is in Japan and this is mostly just for the English version...

but really very poor experience there and the danger of having just ONE person in charge of it is that if you have an issue and there is no one else you can talk to about it......

oh well. guess a good advice for us all stay clear of the offical forums for a while the guy says that no harm has been done so far. but no offince as i said to them you obviously have ZERO control over what site it takes users to. it could be an illigal porn site or something like that......im pretty sure if that was the case SOMETHING would be done about it. or the forums taken down until its fixed. but likely since its just a 'spam site" and thats not the main part of the website that handles buying the product its of low priority and thus handled and administrated by either just volunteers or someone with "IT" "experience" who may not be very experienced at all....or am i just off my rocker here?

well just not a very nice experence for me at all... sighs.

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