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Norion on 03 October 2022

The only impact I notice for my account is my notifications got cleared for some reason.

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VAMatt on 03 October 2022

CaptainExplosion seems to be banned (deleted). Dunno if he is supposed to be.

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gooch_destroyer on 03 October 2022

Amazing. I've here nine years and never seen shit like this before.

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DonFerrari on 03 October 2022

BraLoD said:

So I leave for a while and the site gets hacked? lol

And since there were no LoD posts we can be safe it wasn`t your job.

duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

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DonFerrari on 03 October 2022

Norion said:

The only impact I notice for my account is my notifications got cleared for some reason.

Mine too.

duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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curl-6 on 03 October 2022

I think Basilzero's still corrupted as posts from him seem to have locked up both the Tears of the Kingdom and Nier Automata Switch threads.

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mjk45 on 03 October 2022

trunkswd said:

Kakadu18 said:

How many people were actually banned? Feels like half of the regularly active members or more.

It looks to be well over 20 people that were banned. Mainly staff and a lot of the regulars.

You can see who is still banned here: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/members.php?name=&gender=&keyword=&country=&type=Banned&order=Last+logged+in

Some people who have been unbanned have been unable to access the site. They can login, but other than the top bar the rest of the site is just a black screen. Our coders are working on all the fixes. It is just a lot to go through.

interestingly all the banned accounts seem to be fairly recent ones.

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mjk45 on 03 October 2022

DonFerrari said:

Norion said:

The only impact I notice for my account is my notifications got cleared for some reason.

Mine too.

Mine too so does that makes us part of the mine too movement.

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trunkswd on 03 October 2022

mjk45 said:

trunkswd said:

It looks to be well over 20 people that were banned. Mainly staff and a lot of the regulars.

You can see who is still banned here: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/members.php?name=&gender=&keyword=&country=&type=Banned&order=Last+logged+in

Some people who have been unbanned have been unable to access the site. They can login, but other than the top bar the rest of the site is just a black screen. Our coders are working on all the fixes. It is just a lot to go through.

interestingly al the banned accounts are fairly recent ones.

At this point everyone who was wrongly banned should be unbanned and have their accounts restored.

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mjk45 on 03 October 2022

DonFerrari said:

BraLoD said:

So I leave for a while and the site gets hacked? lol

And since there were no LoD posts we can be safe it wasn`t your job.

besides the large penis size was a dead give away that it wasn't BraLoD

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