Hey everyone, I'm currently away camping and I decided to check my phone and immediately saw that VoE had been basically shut down. Just so everyone knows, I have had no involvement in the financial side of VoE for a long time. I prefer to work on community things like my newsletter. I get home on Friday, when I do that I'll be sorting out the mess. Due to my timezone I never really bothered to monitor VoE, so if someone could explain to me what happened it'd be fantastic. I hope to do what I can to make things right for all people involved with VoE.
Why do you have your phone? That ain't real camping Anyway, here is what I know. Others should be able to add onto this. Obblebobble got permabanned by Andrew for scamming and trading cash IRL for ecodollars. He has no chance of appeal. By some estimates, obble scammed about $200 - $400 USD. A couple hours later, Andrew found THCOOL and furyfudge had assisted obble with this, and were permabanned as well. Somewhere in between all of this, obblebobble released a video of himself announcing his retirement from ECC, and burning an eff7 rented from matrix_rep. Andrew has stated that all loans due to VOE as a whole are still to be upheld, but loans specifically to Obble, THCOOL, or furyfudge (not VOE as a group) are on hold until if/when those users become unbanned. Mchelix3000 has started a relief fund for those who invested in VOE (like the willclo fund a while back). Some users put thousands in to help, and Andrew contributed $4 million ECD. Despite all the drama today, the ECC community has done a fantastic job of pulling through and not giving a f*** about any damage obble intended to cause. It's been an eventful past 12 hours but ECC as a whole has handled it very well. Now, I haven't been ingame since a few days ago, and don't know as many details about this as some. I think I covered the bulk of it, but I'm probably missing plenty of other details that others can fill you in on. Thanks for your commitment to helping out.
While Obble is Perma'd banned - and to quote Andrew, has been thrown in with OSR and Revan, THCOOL and Fury were given the chance to appeal via email to the Admin, Fury has been allowed to appeal, yet THCOOL hasn't yet emailed the admin to my knowledge.
Thank you for your explanations. This is very annoying as I've lost some friends and I seem to be getting some of the blame for their actions (I've been away from home for two weeks, there was no way for me to do that for the record) ;-; oh well.