Glitch in the Gold Generators?

[THE_FAIRY_EMPRESS]

Does no one else find it super suspicious that someone made an account called "Edward Snowden" Made just one post where they gave out surprisingly accurate information about secret admin activities then disappeared again.
Seriously they only have that one post.
I may have been reading these Gaia conspiracy threads for to long, but that seems suspicious, a member of staff unhappy with Gaia's moves behind the scenes?
After this debacle, I'm now perfectly willing to believe all the craziest user conspiracies.

[TasteChaos]

THE_FAIRY_EMPRESS

Does no one else find it super suspicious that someone made an account called "Edward Snowden" Made just one post where they gave out surprisingly accurate information about secret admin activities then disappeared again.
Seriously they only have that one post.
I may have been reading these Gaia conspiracy threads for to long, but that seems suspicious, a member of staff unhappy with Gaia's moves behind the scenes?
After this debacle, I'm now perfectly willing to believe all the craziest user conspiracies.

I just re-read his post and the accuracy is eerie... Who is this person? Some staffmember wanting to come clean? A hacker-spy wanting to overrule Gaia?

Maybe MC should put her detective-hat back on and investigate this person next.

[THE_FAIRY_EMPRESS]

TasteChaos

I just re-read his post and the accuracy is eerie... Who is this person? Some staffmember wanting to come clean? A hacker-spy wanting to overrule Gaia?

Maybe MC should put her detective-hat back on and investigate this person next.

It does seem odd that a usual user would bother to make a mule for that one post, especially when they had such sound theories.

It's just another shady piece of this shady puzzle.

[soft hydrangea]

THE_FAIRY_EMPRESS

Does no one else find it super suspicious that someone made an account called "Edward Snowden" Made just one post where they gave out surprisingly accurate information about secret admin activities then disappeared again.
Seriously they only have that one post.
I may have been reading these Gaia conspiracy threads for to long, but that seems suspicious, a member of staff unhappy with Gaia's moves behind the scenes?
After this debacle, I'm now perfectly willing to believe all the craziest user conspiracies.

✂Let's sew the pieces

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X✂` The fact about how accurate this person was and the only post caould possibly mean that it was made by a staff member or another user that feared something would happen to their account about adding 2 cents. But if it is a staff member then, this person is the last small hope of gaia. Because although it seems suspicious it could had very well been Omega on a mule giving us light without him getting in trouble. I don't see it as a bad thing if it a staff member cause they wanted us to know what was going on.

of the broken girl....together.✂

[THE_FAIRY_EMPRESS]

o-HANAKO-o

✂Let's sew the pieces

xxxxxx
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X✂` The fact about how accurate this person was and the only post caould possibly mean that it was made by a staff member or another user that feared something would happen to their account about adding 2 cents. But if it is a staff member then, this person is the last small hope of gaia. Because although it seems suspicious it could had very well been Omega on a mule giving us light without him getting in trouble. I don't see it as a bad thing if it a staff member cause they wanted us to know what was going on.

of the broken girl....together.✂

I wouldn't think it a bad thing IF it was a warning from someone with more insight.
I do however think it would be a sad sign of the times for staff to feel that things were bad enough to whistle blow. Especially since this site used to be all about communication between admin and users.
It's not good or any business if they start fighting amongst themselves. Though i think it'd be comforting to know there was at least one person on the users side. It would still be sad that the site had come to secrecy and backstabbing.

[soft hydrangea]

THE_FAIRY_EMPRESS

o-HANAKO-o

✂Let's sew the pieces

xxxxxx
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X✂` The fact about how accurate this person was and the only post caould possibly mean that it was made by a staff member or another user that feared something would happen to their account about adding 2 cents. But if it is a staff member then, this person is the last small hope of gaia. Because although it seems suspicious it could had very well been Omega on a mule giving us light without him getting in trouble. I don't see it as a bad thing if it a staff member cause they wanted us to know what was going on.

of the broken girl....together.✂

I wouldn't think it a bad thing IF it was a warning from someone with more insight.
I do however think it would be a sad sign of the times for staff to feel that things were bad enough to whistle blow. Especially since this site used to be all about communication between admin and users.
It's not good or any business if they start fighting amongst themselves. Though i think it'd be comforting to know there was at least one person on the users side. It would still be sad that the site had come to secrecy and backstabbing.

✂Let's sew the pieces

xxxxxx
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X✂` I agree. I sure do hope there isn't even fighting among the staff. I don't know how i'd handle myself. How can you please consumers when you can't be a peace with yourselves? I do think we should have more information on what is going on at this point since a whole lot has been revealed already, they might as well come fully clean.

And I honestly think that Omega is on our side. I think he was and is trying to patch things up, and seems like the only staff trying to do anything or have any communication with us users.

of the broken girl....together.✂

[Tea Mood]

I just wish they would come out and tell us anything at all at this point. The silence (save for the gcash bombardment) is a bit unnerving.

Ironic captcha: fast asleep

[Spacebabie76]

THE_FAIRY_EMPRESS

Does no one else find it super suspicious that someone made an account called "Edward Snowden" Made just one post where they gave out surprisingly accurate information about secret admin activities then disappeared again.
Seriously they only have that one post.
I may have been reading these Gaia conspiracy threads for to long, but that seems suspicious, a member of staff unhappy with Gaia's moves behind the scenes?
After this debacle, I'm now perfectly willing to believe all the craziest user conspiracies.

Snowden= Deep Throat

Gash and MC=Woodward and Bernstein

[Ankit Yamotashi]

Gash Thrashum

Where did all the gold come from?

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This makes me wonder about what happens to the stuff on people banned accounts go to.
Sure you can say its safe from anyone touching it and its there policy for them not to remove or take items from so and so account after the ban. ( Just a random though. )

Even if the gold was legit that people could of spend a lot on gaia cash to get it. I hardly doubt anyone would waste that much money to get rich on this site but i know some people would because either there to lazy or don't make gold well like many users.

[A 7V G E L z]

STILL WAITING FOR AN ANSWER
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[King Awesomolocity]

Gash Thrashum

Where did all the gold come from?

The question to sum up all questions.

~King Awesome

[Locust_Reptilia]

Zero Omega

Gash Thrashum

I'm hearing that there was a glitch in the gold gens yesterday which allowed people to recieve trillions in gold. This would explain the huge spike in the MP and all the item listings getting bought out/ABPs going up.



Does anyone know more about the situation? I don't have any confidence in Gaia clearing things up or making any sort of announcement about it.

This is not a case of gold generators. We just finished investigating this and found it was a result of one particular user purchasing a Double Rainbow Ticket for 300 trillion gold. The Marketplace graph is not necessarily a representation of how much gold is in the economy or being generated by gold generators. It tracks how much gold has moved through the Marketplace only. Lots of things can make the graph rise or fall. For example, if we had a bunch of older users with lots of gold come back to the site and purchase a lot of things on the Marketplace, it can rise. If we had a bunch of users sell incredibly high priced items, it can rise. On the flip side, if people decided to stop using the Marketplace, it will fall. In this case, a user had enough gold to conduct a large transaction like this and spike the graph. I predict it will dramatically fall back to normally levels tomorrow if MP spending remains normal.

Also, before there are concerns about hacked/exploited gold, we investigated the user in question and found that all the gold was clean. It was a legitimate transaction, albeit abnormal.

I know this is probable incredibly off topic and I apologize for that, but, can you possibly tell me when the winners of the lottery will be announced, or if they've even picked any winners yet? It ended a week ago, and I've been on the forums off and on looking for information, but have found nothing solid nor satisfactory.

[Niko079]

Zero Omega

Gash Thrashum

I'm hearing that there was a glitch in the gold gens yesterday which allowed people to recieve trillions in gold. This would explain the huge spike in the MP and all the item listings getting bought out/ABPs going up.



Does anyone know more about the situation? I don't have any confidence in Gaia clearing things up or making any sort of announcement about it.

This is not a case of gold generators. We just finished investigating this and found it was a result of one particular user purchasing a Double Rainbow Ticket for 300 trillion gold. The Marketplace graph is not necessarily a representation of how much gold is in the economy or being generated by gold generators. It tracks how much gold has moved through the Marketplace only. Lots of things can make the graph rise or fall. For example, if we had a bunch of older users with lots of gold come back to the site and purchase a lot of things on the Marketplace, it can rise. If we had a bunch of users sell incredibly high priced items, it can rise. On the flip side, if people decided to stop using the Marketplace, it will fall. In this case, a user had enough gold to conduct a large transaction like this and spike the graph. I predict it will dramatically fall back to normally levels tomorrow if MP spending remains normal.

Also, before there are concerns about hacked/exploited gold, we investigated the user in question and found that all the gold was clean. It was a legitimate transaction, albeit abnormal.

Are you kidding me dude ? 300 trillion and you believe us to fall for that ? who has 300 trillion gold lol

[OpalOnyx]

Edward Snowden

I have this WILD theory I'd like to propose. I've been watching this thread—waiting for the right moment to jump in. Since it seems to be taking a turn towards skepticism again, I'm going to make a few of you go "Hm...."

First off, Zero Omega is correct when he says the gold is "legit" and not the result of an exploit or glitch. Aside from a few whispers here and there, no evidence (anecdotal or otherwise) has shown that there was a glitch in the gold generators. We can rest assured that they would not lie about this.

What if I told you that "LicorSkein" isn't an ordinary user account? That this user is actually a mule account being controlled by Gaia staff to make purchases and manipulate market prices? That perhaps, though only one of a few possibilities, they purchased the ticket to remove it from the system and create less of a burden for their artists? Keep in mind, that's merely one of several possibilities and I'm sure you can think of other reasons why such a transaction would have been made. As mentioned by Gash Thrashum, the account's post history doesn't match up with their gold total and also as evidenced, the account purchased a brand new item for a terribly high price. Why would they do this? One could say it's an inconspicuous way of raising the average buy price on brand new items to artificially lower supply and make an exclusive item more difficult for non-cash users to purchase, thus giving people a reason to purchase more RIGs from the shop.

The implication here is that staff is (or has been for a long time) manipulating prices to encourage more cash shop purchases through the use of mule accounts. That they could be removing tickets from the system to lessen their workload. That they've been injecting more gold into the system artificially. That they can't be trusted.

While it may seem like they're being truthful on a surface level, and in this case, were truthful about the question regarding gold generators glitching, they aren't telling you exactly where that gold came from or what it's being used for/why it's being done. They can call the gold "legit" and still be right because the source of the gold is Gaia staff which can generate any item or gold amount out of thin air, but the use of this gold is definitely not legitimate. Staff should not be interfering with the market in this manner behind closed doors.

On a final note, would you be surprised to learn how much gold is being held on that "LicorSkein" account? Would it surprise you to know 133,000,000,000,000 is only a small fraction of it?

This post and what it means to me as a user....

My motivation for staying on this site is hanging by a thread.

I have no words.

[robotic being]

i am loving this