Originally posted by JagexSween
Hey all. There are a few things being raised here, and we'll cover each, in some way. There's the exploit itself. There's us NDAing content creators and the responses from Mod Bolton. There's the idea of any collusion between Reddit and Jagex.
In terms of the exploit. It's standard to not discuss active investigations and actions being taken, at least until after we've taken steps to resolve the issues. We became aware of a method being used to duplicate gold, and a combination of things - including tip-offs from Rendi and our system monitoring - led to us becoming aware of it very quickly. The Support and anti-cheating teams worked on removing a large amount of gold and investigated the accounts involved, whilst the SysAdmin and Engine teams were working on stopping it happening more. We remain diligent, and are yet to see any repeated occurrence of the exploit - work is continuing to improve our game systems to prevent this sort of thing from occurring again. In response ...
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Mod Bolton’s message (auto-hidden earlier this morning):
Hey there Rendi, I'm sorry you felt you needed to leave the discord, or that you are in any way unappreciated. I really don't have any info on anything in-game, as my focus is wholly influencers, but I'd like to explain my comments that you discuss at the start of the vid.
I should clarify that the reason I was concerned about "incorrect info" leaking out of the discord, was because we were seeing a "telephone" effect on what was actually said in the chat. Players were hearing second-hand stories through streamers, and creating reddit threads with totally incorrect claims about what creators and Jagex were saying. As the person in charge of influencer, that is unacceptable regardless of the topic, and is traditionally solved with an NDA.
In general, NDA's don't apply to anything you bring into a channel yourself. An NDA just protects what others say in the chat, allowing both creators and Jage...
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