Opensource Content Site Admin DELETES Libre Content Due To Dislike of Artist to Pressure Artist.
Background: OpenGameArt.org is a website that pro-ports to exist for the purpose of collecting and distributing libre/opensource works.
An admin there now claims to be deleting opensource works one by one because he doesn't like who made them.
MikeeUSA is an opensource programmer, 3d Artist, and musician, and has uploaded 180 of his own original libre works to OpenGameArt over the years.
One day MikeeUSA uploaded a work celebrating Donald Trump's victory. This is when the current OGA Admin started to create a conflict against MikeeUSA.
Later MikeeUSA was banned by that admin because of a conversation he had with others on the forum.
MikeeUSA's contributions are now proportedly being deleted, one by one, by said admin each time an unban request is made.
The "community" is punished and works are taken from it's hands due to political and social dislike by the OpenGameArt Admin.
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May I have my account back.
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You Sep 21
May I have my account back.
I would like to upload, to my mikeeusa account three
new blender models (a tec9, a sai, and a brass cudgel)
(aswell as a variant for the tec9) and three new songs.
You said before that you were a "fan" of my work. I would like to add to the pile.
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MedicineStorm Sep 21
You have an account. "mkuv2" is your account. Provided the license allows, you may upload the assets using your own account. You should credit the original author in your submission, though.
Good thing you're not actually a banned member's duplicate account. If that were the case, I would have to re-ban you.
You 2:42 am
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I would like my account mikeeusa back so that I may upload the new content along-side the rest of the content.
You banned me because you did not like how I talked to other people on your forum.
Previous to that you said you were "a fan" of my works.
Thus you have decided that people's conversations, if they offend eachother, are more important to you and your website then the ACTUAL work of opensource contributors..
The contributions count for nothing. The forum talk counts for everything.
I am a programmer, a musician, a mapper, and a 3d modler, amongst other things.
The people who were happy that I was banned were none of that: just chatter boxen.
You and yours have sided with those who did not like my words over my actual work.
I would like my mikeeusa account to be unbanned please.
To my credit is the opensource game with the greatest number of weapons, and almost full time development from me.
Please stop siding with your internal "rules" and your political and social beliefs which have been offended and instead with what this site exists for: open content.
Also please respect me as an artist an as an accomplished opensource programmer.
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MedicineStorm 5:25 pm
As a side note, it looks like there is an error in the site's code. When trying to unban the mikeeusa account, I noticed the submission count for mikeesua dropped by one. I first noticed it back when ChaosesqueTeam made a similar request. Mikeeusa's submissions went from 182 to 181. I'm not sure which one disappeared because, well, how do you identify something that doesn't exist anymore, right? It happened again when I got a message from requestor8. Now mikeeusa only shows 180 submissions. I'm not sure if it's when I try to unban the account or what the cause is, but just now when I tried to see if I could unban mikeeusa again, I noticed there are only 179 submissions left.
Weird. Not sure what is causing the error that deletes the submissions, but it only seems to happen to banned users. There aren't that many banned users on OGA, so it looks like very few submissions were lost so far. I'll see if I can figure out what's causing it when I get some spare time.
You 1 min ago
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It seems what you are communicating is that each time I request an unban, you manually delete one of my works.
(*Since you did not "try" to unban me when requestor8 requested, nor when ChaosesqueTeam requested)
I used to be a forum / website / ssh shell admin and PHP programmer too. I know how the technology works.
Now.. in addition to being a game programmer... I'm an attorney.
I know you reside in the Phoenix area. I am looking for a settlement before I have to file a diversity suit against you and your association (OGA) for the torts of libel and false light (amongst other things): I simply ask that you restore my account so that my reputation may not be further impugned and so that I am made whole again.
Instead you communicate to me that you have taken steps to diminish my known contributions.
https://opengameart.org/forumtopic/medicinestorm-coyly-claims-he-deletes-mikeeusas-opensource-work-each-time-he-makes-an
An admin there now claims to be deleting opensource works one by one because he doesn't like who made them.
MikeeUSA is an opensource programmer, 3d Artist, and musician, and has uploaded 180 of his own original libre works to OpenGameArt over the years.
One day MikeeUSA uploaded a work celebrating Donald Trump's victory. This is when the current OGA Admin started to create a conflict against MikeeUSA.
Later MikeeUSA was banned by that admin because of a conversation he had with others on the forum.
MikeeUSA's contributions are now proportedly being deleted, one by one, by said admin each time an unban request is made.
The "community" is punished and works are taken from it's hands due to political and social dislike by the OpenGameArt Admin.
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May I have my account back.
Tag this conversation
Between you and MedicineStorm
You Sep 21
May I have my account back.
I would like to upload, to my mikeeusa account three
new blender models (a tec9, a sai, and a brass cudgel)
(aswell as a variant for the tec9) and three new songs.
You said before that you were a "fan" of my work. I would like to add to the pile.
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MedicineStorm's picture
MedicineStorm Sep 21
You have an account. "mkuv2" is your account. Provided the license allows, you may upload the assets using your own account. You should credit the original author in your submission, though.
Good thing you're not actually a banned member's duplicate account. If that were the case, I would have to re-ban you.
You 2:42 am
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I would like my account mikeeusa back so that I may upload the new content along-side the rest of the content.
You banned me because you did not like how I talked to other people on your forum.
Previous to that you said you were "a fan" of my works.
Thus you have decided that people's conversations, if they offend eachother, are more important to you and your website then the ACTUAL work of opensource contributors..
The contributions count for nothing. The forum talk counts for everything.
I am a programmer, a musician, a mapper, and a 3d modler, amongst other things.
The people who were happy that I was banned were none of that: just chatter boxen.
You and yours have sided with those who did not like my words over my actual work.
I would like my mikeeusa account to be unbanned please.
To my credit is the opensource game with the greatest number of weapons, and almost full time development from me.
Please stop siding with your internal "rules" and your political and social beliefs which have been offended and instead with what this site exists for: open content.
Also please respect me as an artist an as an accomplished opensource programmer.
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MedicineStorm's picture
MedicineStorm 5:25 pm
As a side note, it looks like there is an error in the site's code. When trying to unban the mikeeusa account, I noticed the submission count for mikeesua dropped by one. I first noticed it back when ChaosesqueTeam made a similar request. Mikeeusa's submissions went from 182 to 181. I'm not sure which one disappeared because, well, how do you identify something that doesn't exist anymore, right? It happened again when I got a message from requestor8. Now mikeeusa only shows 180 submissions. I'm not sure if it's when I try to unban the account or what the cause is, but just now when I tried to see if I could unban mikeeusa again, I noticed there are only 179 submissions left.
Weird. Not sure what is causing the error that deletes the submissions, but it only seems to happen to banned users. There aren't that many banned users on OGA, so it looks like very few submissions were lost so far. I'll see if I can figure out what's causing it when I get some spare time.
You 1 min ago
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It seems what you are communicating is that each time I request an unban, you manually delete one of my works.
(*Since you did not "try" to unban me when requestor8 requested, nor when ChaosesqueTeam requested)
I used to be a forum / website / ssh shell admin and PHP programmer too. I know how the technology works.
Now.. in addition to being a game programmer... I'm an attorney.
I know you reside in the Phoenix area. I am looking for a settlement before I have to file a diversity suit against you and your association (OGA) for the torts of libel and false light (amongst other things): I simply ask that you restore my account so that my reputation may not be further impugned and so that I am made whole again.
Instead you communicate to me that you have taken steps to diminish my known contributions.
https://opengameart.org/forumtopic/medicinestorm-coyly-claims-he-deletes-mikeeusas-opensource-work-each-time-he-makes-an