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Ohmikeghod wrote:
> D waved a magic wand at the 'puter, changed into a moose (OOPS!) -
> tried again and came up with:
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>>So you are saying that people are intentionally putting corrupt files
>>in the exchange for fun?
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> yes - not the majority, of course, but it only takes a small number to ruin
> the reputation of a site.
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>>And it's the writers of the hacks who are at fault?
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> no - I didn't mention hackers at all. Most people who upload homes to the
> exchange wouldn't know how to create simantics code.
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>>Or maybe you are saying that YES there are people who are
>>intentionally corrupt
>>Something I find a little hard to believe...but I'll give you the
>>benefit of the doubt, after all it doesn't hurt to be careful.
>>but the thing is...it's not the hacker's fault nor Maxis's fault
>>they just provide the tools and services
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> Of course it's not the hacker's fault. They provide great stuff and extend
> the game. However, Maxis, through it's policy of not testing anything that
> goes up onto the exchange, allows a few demented individuals to spoil their
> attempts to provide quality downloads for others.
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>>If a hacker was intentionally making hacks and putting them in the
>>exchange (a hacker with very little life...what a poor sod)
>>then yeah he would be called a vandal
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> Again, it's not the hackers - it's a few "poor sods" who have no creative
> talent whatsoever that find ways of creating trouble for everyone by
> uploading homes with problems. It doesn't take much to give a site a bad
> reputation - only one out of 1000 being malicious can do it. The people who
> create problems are NOT the creative people who develop the hacked objects
> that we know and love. It's the ones who normally would create problems no
> matter what they do. It's much easier to create problems using stock
> objects (I'm reminded of the TS1 home on the exchange with 20 babies about
> to hatch), that it is to be creative and learn how to write simantics code.
> I seriously doubt that any uploader with a malicious streak has that kind of
> creativity.
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>>but you just can't say that the WHOLE of the hacking community is at
>>fault You just can't generalise like that...life isn't black or
>>white, good or bad, 'clean' fun or vandalism...
>>Free-will makes sure our lives are full of many shades of grey.
>>
>>Maxis made a game, Hackers mod the game, a bored kid puts a
>>maliciously bugged house on the exchange to ruin people's games
>>Intentionally? or they just didn't know?
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> A bit of both, actually. Some (actually, most) of the problem homes are put
> up unintentionally. A small number, however, are put up intentionally.
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>>What the real problem is that there is no clarity, no organisation..
>>and so these things slip through
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>>I will continue to defend the hacking community because if it weren't
>>for them I would've stopped playing the game
>>(thanks to bugs)
>>2 months ago.
>>
>>Speculation breeds paranoia which breeds fear, and frankly I get
>>enough of that just watching the 6 oclock news.
>>
>>Sorry.
>>
>>"Ohmikeghod" <ohmikeghod@mirthlink.net> wrote in message
>>news:mhqFd.6260$Ii4.3598@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
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>>>I sorta disagree. The TS1 Exchange was loaded with willful and
>>>malicious homes that would crash your game. There's no reason to
>>>think otherwise of the TS2 Exchange. The problem, of course is
>>>children (no matter what age they really are) who find "fun" in
>>>destructive activities, along with a company that refuses to vet
>>>content for bad things.
>>>
>>>--
>>>--- Mike ---
http://www.livin-it-up.net
>>>Member of eKoOK (evil Kult of Object Kreators)
>>>"The ultimate goal is load time of 24 hours!"
>>>"The ultimate goal is filling every hard drive in the world!"
>>>Mwahahaha!
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> --
> --- Mike ---
http://www.livin-it-up.net
> Member of eKoOK (evil Kult of Object Kreators)
> "The ultimate goal is load time of 24 hours!"
> "The ultimate goal is filling every hard drive in the world!"
> Mwahahaha!
>
>
I for one won't be downloading anymore homes from the exchange. The
last one I got had a house full of sick sims. I had placed the house in
the neighborhood, hadn't played it yet, went into the home I made of my
own family and sent them into town. The sick family was there and made
my "husband" sick! Needless to say I was pissed! Won't make that
mistake again.
Ali