Some of the users here have asked me to explain what has happened to a couple of our long-time moderators who "mysteriously disappeared" this past week. To dispel rumors that have begun circulating, I will give the facts as they happened.
We have been working on getting our UBB v6 ready for launch and had begun getting opinions from our moderators in regards to graphics, color, layout, content and future long-term and short-term strategy regarding ubbdev's expansion as the leader among forum support sites on the internet. In doing so, we opened our beta site to our moderators for viewing and comments. In the past week, I began to notice a much higher traffic level on the beta site than would be considered normal, so I checked access logs for there and our private forums.
On Thursday, the 25th, we found out that 2 of our trusted moderators had been giving a developer of another forum script access to our private forums with their username and password. We are not sure how many others were allowed access, but we're positive about this one individual. In the ensuing question and answer period, both moderators and this developer admitted to accessing our private forums and allowing him to read our threads on several occasions. Immediately after their admissions, their status as moderator here was removed and all three had their posting privileges removed.
It is a sad day when those that you trust can no longer be trusted. It is also a sad day when you find an individual that you go out of your way to make comfortable and welcome on your site, despite developing a competing product, will stoop to such an unprofessional and immature level. We wish all 3 the best in their endeavors, competition is good after all, but we can no longer trust them to be a part of this site.
