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What does you leaving or not leaving have to do with how people act or what they say? Your not doing your image any good there buddy.


Hmm so ETL might have just worded things oddly. He said he was able to refuse the PPT... does that mean he looked and it was auto-refused for him? Or was he given some option to refuse it, which would not be how the system is now, or did this kick in and an email go out to Jason on this issue. I agree this isnt how ETL rolls. I don't think the man is a cheater, however the issue wouldnt really be him. It would be the disparity between the response ETL gets to issues and the rest of us.

Personally I think this whole thread should be locked and only unlocked by ETL or Forum when they come to tell their side of the story... And I seriously believe that they should do that. Because if nothing wrong was done... then why not ease our minds?

ok. this issue was brought to my attention and summarized by Psi, i will add this, then close the topic.

A bug was brought to our attention. somehow people were getting their market/ppt turns used up, without doing anything to do so, and not knowing why. I checked their own usage, and they were right - they did not do it...

2 people specifically brought this to my attention. So - assuming a bug, I 'fixed' the issue by adding a ppt count while looking into it further...

Not long after, I figured out what happened -they had someone else give them PPT without their knowledge/request. I actually had a report of this (case #3) a couple weeks back, but did not have a solution, and thought it a one-off thing... these 3 (1+2 new) reports led me to the conclusion that it was not a oneoff thing... and that I had to do something on this front as while the activity is not against the rules, it is not how the ability to give to others was meant to be used. (remember we put it in there a long time back so that people did not have to give others their passwords if someone wanted to support for another...).

SO - after another few days of thought I added a global preference as to whether you accept donations from others... this was the only way I could htink of that would not revert to giving away passwords (if i removed the ability to donate to another) or otherwise stop useful functionality.

SO that is that. Bug report. Temporarily Addressed.
Deeper investigation led to a tactic that I was not aware was being used.
Tactic deemed counter to the intended functionality released, so addressed.
(ps the donations to the accounts in question have been returned).
Case closed.