Disallow the sale of e-books, and unban Affixes.

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Many of you know of the recent controversy between Affixes and Aschorren. Aschorren had accused Affixes of fraud, although he refused to submit a scam report or show any proof. Affixes did not receive any punishment due to this. Fast forward about 2 months later, Aschorren releases his e-book. Here are the reasons that I feel that it is unfair for Aschorren to be allowed to sell his e-book:
- Several others have been disallowed to sell e-books of similar types.
- He has refused to submit it to resources, as he doesn't trust staff (Although I think this is false, I think he was just worried about being exposed)
- The fact that he has been treated far better than the rest, possibly because of his connections with Mick, and the large financial contributions he's made to this site.
- The fact that his thread was locked and the feedback was biased (Aschorren has connections with Mick, and the fact that many people started flaming the thread for what the book was).

This is why I think it is completely unfair for Aschorren to sell his ebook, although I believe that it would look biased if we didn't remove all ebooks.

Now on to the second part.

Affixes is a very good member of our community, he was always a good guy and only did was was right. The only thing he did wrong was leak the e-book, but he didn't do it with malicious intent. There wasn't even a TOS, and he did not patent it. Let's also take a recent look at the ban list:

You can see he was banned for scamming/violating rights. What rights did he violate? He was only looking out for the community.

Now, let's take a look at the ban reasons. You can see that M6Gaming banned several users for scamming, however they were always accompanied by a thread. On the other hand, Affixes's ban was not accompanied with a thread for scamming.

Staff, please put a stop to this nonsense.

tl;dr Remove aschorren's e-book, and unban Affixes.
 
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what the fuck did I come into
 

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The drama ensues. Don't fully understand how Bosny locking it was a mistake but who knows anymore!
 

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I see that complex was suspended. I can see he was upset and went a little overboard but i do not think that it was worth a suspension. Favoritism is clearly a factor here, as is treating other members differently than others. I do not know Aschorren and i dont really care about this e-book thing as i didnt buy it. however it is upsetting to see the unfair balance here. I quite enjoy MCM and although I am still green in terms of how long ive been here I can see that MCM is on the path of destruction. Most of it caused by the admins believing that they are superior to the members who keep them alive.

Now people can throw words around as much as they want but the members are not stupid Aschorren and can clearly see that you are trying to sidestep the accusations. whether you think you are right or not is besides the point. you are being condescending and trying to berate people with your 'intelligence'. You are as much to blame in this flame war as the others.
Communication is what will make or break this place and people in power seem to have forgotten this. It is a sad thing to see
 

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Hello. I initially had an extremely lengthy post all written out (which I checked, is over 3000 words long) basically replying to every comment of significance on this thread. After reading over it with the staff team the points addressed weren’t as concise as I had first hoped for so I am rewriting it again.

It was absolutely unacceptable for Jesse to be banned for scamming with no scam report made, however this was not due to anything to do with the generous donations and purchases on MC-Market. Jesse has been unbanned and for him to be banned again Aschorren must post a scam report that is accepted.

It is possible that in the future all eBooks will not be allowed on MC-Market but that may occur in the next update.

Thanks,
Mick
 
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