As many of you know, munchy365 has been around since before we can remember, being one of most renowned designers and forums users. From his activeness and popularity in Atmosphir, munchy has become a Moderator and Editorial Staff member. This has since changed after a string of events that put many moderators at the edge of their seats.

We had been discussing a certain user in the private Moderator Section of the forums, and munchy disagreed with what we had been saying. This is not uncommon, as many of the Moderators have different points of view. He stated that he did not believe the user was doing anything wrong, so he expressed that to us. Munchy then sends PM’s to this user with quotes of the discussion that followed his post in the Moderator section.

The user then says he has knowledge of what we are posting in the Moderator section, and posts that he has found an exploit within the forums (no such glitch does or ever has existed) that had allowed him to access the Moderator section and view our discussions. This drew great anxiety out of all of us, because we did not believe that the Moderator section was safe anymore. Adz, a long-time veteran and Moderator on the Atmosphir forums Emailed Dave to inform him that there was a glitch of some sort in the forums, and just in case that was not true, to check the PM’s sent to said user to make sure that no Moderator had leaked any information to them.

Dave checked the PM’s sent to the user, and found one containing quotes from Moderators that was sent to the user by munchy. Dave then asked him to explain this incident, and when munchy lied, Dave posted more evidence. Munchy failed to respond, and has now been banned for a total of 7 days, and has been stripped of both his Moderator and Editorial Staff powers.

I hope munchy365′s story is a lesson to all current and future Moderators, that all discussion in the Moderator section stays in the Moderator section. If you do not keep it there, you will suffer the severe consequences that await.

In another set of news, sadly not good news either, Dave has announced that he will not be doing anymore office tours after an unexpected visit from telmac, yet another forum user. Telmac posted pictures of his visit with Dave, and some revealed something that was not supposed to be seen by anyone in the community… I do not believe I am allowed to followthrough with the rest of the story, but I think you can figure out on your own, with a little bit of thinking, what happened with telmac’s pictures and the information they contained.

Just to make sure everyone knows, this was an unintentional incident that telmac did not purposely cause. Blame is not to be placed on him.

So, Dave will not be leading any office tours from here on out due to some unfortunate events. I’m sorry to everyone who was hoping for good news, but Project Stratosphir will be coming in only a few weeks, and I think that will lighten the mood.

Ironic how I post all this bad news on Friday the 13th, isn’t it? Well, to all Italians, or people of Italian heritage, this is a day of good luck, but in America, it is not such a lucky day. Usually it is a day of bad luck and unfortunate events. So far, I haven’t had many (knock on wood), and I’m glad. How was your day so far? Any disasters?