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Interesting read - taken from MMO champion - is the giant finally dying?
"https://twitter.com/WeakAuras/status...12677578838016
PogU
RIP for the person getting fired tho
Is this also a breach of EU GDPR law?
Moderation note:
There have been a lot of further developments to this on the part of the WeakAuras developer (ummm...as it were). Here is some additional information:
Clarification about what happened today (WeakAuras Tweet)
So, what happened today:
Someone posted a thread on ((forum that is against TOS)) about how the new API can be abused to get player subscription data and that was used to calculate current subscriber numbers.
What I usually do with those rumors is post them on the WeakAuras Twitter account to talk with other people about it. I knew it was a far fetch and could not be verified unless the full data dump was leaked, which it wasn't. Also the thread has since been deleted and I did not have a screenshot nor was it accessible via Google Cache since it was in the subscriber only area.
What sounded too cool to me was that if those numbers are true, WeakAuras users make up 50% of WoW's user base. Which would be insane. So I began typing my tweet, wanting to talk about it and then it happened. I reached Twitter's max character limit. Well, the lazy person I am, I just figured I'd split my tweet up into three.
Turns out, people really don't read Twitter threads and Reddit only displays the first post of it by default.
This is how it looked to me,
View: https://i.imgur.com/Y2SUrDc.png
- but not to the rest of the internet.
Obviously the community took this as a call to arms and soon after, everyone was treating the first tweet as a fact. I tried repeatedly to point out how it wasn't but yeah, you guys know what happened.
Soon after, I got contacted by Blizzard and they basically just told me that the data is false and that I might want to edit or delete my tweet to not look like an idiot that spreads misinformation.
Since I think deleting tweets just because they are controversial is bad practice, and I stand by what I wrote, I once again tried to point out what I have been saying from the beginning, that we have no proof to back up this claim.
So of course, people took my tweet saying just that as me being gag ordered by Blizzard and started claiming I only posted this to boost my follower count and WeakAuras download numbers, threatening to boycott the WeakAuras addon as a consequence. Trust me, this was really not the case and half of that does not even make sense.
Lessons learned:
Put a huge disclaimer at the start of tweets when you are going to post rumors, not at the end.
The internet is still the internet and will never change.
BfA is still in a very dire spot and posting a rumor about how it could be even worse did not help.
I hope I could clear up a few things for you guys and am sorry for causing trouble.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comment...day_weakauras/ "
"https://twitter.com/WeakAuras/status...12677578838016
PogU
RIP for the person getting fired tho
Is this also a breach of EU GDPR law?
Moderation note:
There have been a lot of further developments to this on the part of the WeakAuras developer (ummm...as it were). Here is some additional information:
Clarification about what happened today (WeakAuras Tweet)
So, what happened today:
Someone posted a thread on ((forum that is against TOS)) about how the new API can be abused to get player subscription data and that was used to calculate current subscriber numbers.
What I usually do with those rumors is post them on the WeakAuras Twitter account to talk with other people about it. I knew it was a far fetch and could not be verified unless the full data dump was leaked, which it wasn't. Also the thread has since been deleted and I did not have a screenshot nor was it accessible via Google Cache since it was in the subscriber only area.
What sounded too cool to me was that if those numbers are true, WeakAuras users make up 50% of WoW's user base. Which would be insane. So I began typing my tweet, wanting to talk about it and then it happened. I reached Twitter's max character limit. Well, the lazy person I am, I just figured I'd split my tweet up into three.
Turns out, people really don't read Twitter threads and Reddit only displays the first post of it by default.
This is how it looked to me,
View: https://i.imgur.com/Y2SUrDc.png
- but not to the rest of the internet.
Obviously the community took this as a call to arms and soon after, everyone was treating the first tweet as a fact. I tried repeatedly to point out how it wasn't but yeah, you guys know what happened.
Soon after, I got contacted by Blizzard and they basically just told me that the data is false and that I might want to edit or delete my tweet to not look like an idiot that spreads misinformation.
Since I think deleting tweets just because they are controversial is bad practice, and I stand by what I wrote, I once again tried to point out what I have been saying from the beginning, that we have no proof to back up this claim.
So of course, people took my tweet saying just that as me being gag ordered by Blizzard and started claiming I only posted this to boost my follower count and WeakAuras download numbers, threatening to boycott the WeakAuras addon as a consequence. Trust me, this was really not the case and half of that does not even make sense.
Lessons learned:
Put a huge disclaimer at the start of tweets when you are going to post rumors, not at the end.
The internet is still the internet and will never change.
BfA is still in a very dire spot and posting a rumor about how it could be even worse did not help.
I hope I could clear up a few things for you guys and am sorry for causing trouble.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comment...day_weakauras/ "
