Lord Hapernack wrote:
Also I find this interesting but the list is just that... a list. We have absolutely no way of knowing how its being updated or if its just Taj typing in names. Is the whole list invalid? Probably not. Is the entire list valid? To assume so would be a logical fallacy in and of itself.
I have not gotten to experience the end game scene and all the drama and animosity it creates. I also don't know any of the people on that list (didn't go through all the ones that hadn't been placed under a server yet). Also can't say that I care much either way about hapernack or anyone else on that list but I do think that he and a few others have brought up a good point.
We have no idea where this info came from. It's a post on a website. It could be 100% accurate or he could have very easily decided to add some FU's to a few people and put their name on there. We just don't know.
How hard would it be to take the info from his site, paste it into your own website and make it look just like his and add a few names. Then give various people the link you created and the next thing you know all these other people magically used the program. I could take the thing save it, add Pikko, Imperial Ninja, MrTalos, ArTwoKay, bsphil, lolgaxe or anyone else. Pretend that someone else got more info than Taj got and the next thing you know. All those people would be called out as cheaters. Any attempt by any of them to say no they didn't would be seen as them just trying to cover their asses.
The mob mentality can be pretty strong and over whelming. Witch hunts aren't that rare... I guess it's human nature to want to blame someone and we will go after whoever is put before us.
If we want, I came make a site that has a list of all of IGN's gil buyers. I will go through and look at everyones signature files and who ever has their character's name listed I can put it on the website and find some imaginary day that they bought gil and the amount that they bought. I could put on it that I was Taj (until he came across it and hacked into it and destroyed it lol) and many people would see the site and believe it automatically. People who they have known for years, they would automatically suspect that they had bought gil.
Everything on the site may be totally legit. I just think it isn't wise for people to have such blind faith that it is.