Public Explanation of Why My Thread About SurvivalServers Was Deleted

[seaweeduk 97]

I would like an explanation from the mods of why this thread has been deleted posted here for all to see. I have broken none of this forums rules.

 

The thread itself you can view here

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/1pxuwh/why_survivalserverscom_are_scumbags/

 

Now, I do not believe this thread did anything to break this forums rules. As an ex customer of this hosting service I am well within my rights to share my views on their servers with others. Regardless of your views on open source licensing the facts are this.

 

1) I wrote those scripts and released them on opendayz to help others learn. I went to the trouble of writing tutorials for their installation and responding to support questions regularly on that forum. I never encountered anyone who was unable to install any of my scripts. Had I known they would be sold for profit I would never have released them. Dantes post yesterday said this because my scripts had a disclaimer on them saying they could not be used to make money. 

 

 

I'd expect you will see a lot less servers using these scripts now because of this or more people posting asking for help. I can tell you from my experience in the hosting industry and the support team for the official DayZmod that people expect a lot for free in this community and you are only going to be shooting yourself in the foot.

 

 

That is retarded. OpenDayZ is a place for people to get help with these things. Thats why we post them there and respond to support requests from people on there. Shockingly we don't charge anyone for this service. SurvivalServers don't even have so much as a hyperlink to these opendayz threads on their page. Nor do they have links for half of the scripts, all of which come from there the authors names are never mentioned. We do not go to all that trouble of writing these tutorials to make someone else money. If you think its legal or not for them to do that is irrelevant to me sharing my own opinion on it and trying to make the information public.

 

2) The fact Dante seems to have gracefully glanced over (I am assuming he deleted the thread) is that SurvivalServers will offer you no support on your server whatsoever if you modify a pbo file in any way without paying them to do it. It doesn't matter what that problem is they will blame your modifications as being the cause unless you paid them to do the exact same thing you would have done (read opendayz). If a patch comes out for dayZ guess what, you need to pay them again if you ever want a helpful response from their support desk. People have a right to know this.

 

3) I am an ex customer of this host, I had a shit experience hosting with them I should be able to share that with others. Deleting my thread made me lose a massive amount of respect for this forum and it supposed impartiality. No one is ever going to agree completely in a discussion about software licensing like this. We should however all be able to voice our opinions publicly about it though and let consumers make their own minds up when choosing a host. 

Edited November 6, 2013 by seaweed

[Guest]

You could PM the mods rather than post publicly. 

 

Infact when you sign up you hereby give them the right to

 

"Remove/edit or delete and post(s) and topic(s) you create"

 

They owe you nothing.

[seaweeduk 97]

You could PM the mods rather than post publicly. 

 

Infact when you sign up you hereby give them the right to

 

"Remove/edit or delete and post(s) and topic(s) you create"

 

They owe you nothing.

 

They owe me an explanation and they can make it publicly so everyone can see it. 

 

They can delete it again and I'll recreate it again. They can ban my IP/account and I'll create another one until an explanation is given I have done nothing wrong in creating the thread. 

 

If they delete my thread no one sees what they have done besides the few people to post in that thread. They should justify they actions if they think they have a valid reasoning for them. 

Edited November 6, 2013 by seaweed

[boneboys 7988]

The Topic was merged, not deleted, you may continue here...

 

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/77082-instant-setup-25-for-50-slots-custom-mods-free-anti-hack-dayz-18-epoch-1023-break-point-overwatch-free-survivalserverscom/page-88?p=1512812#entry1512812

[Inception. 9443]

For future reference, do not be so quick to conclude things. Regardless, as Daryll said, send a moderator a personal message instead of making a topic.
I myself do not even support Survival Servers.