Catastrophe in Caer Sidi
Rogue Official Commits Platform Destruction
Written by Astrellan
(July 7, Europeia) - The region of Caer Sidi, a prominent User-Created Region, recently underwent a period of forum, Discord, and world factbook entry (WFE) destruction as an appointed official in the region went rogue.
Itchkerie served as Tanaiste in Caer Sidi, an appointed role similar to a Deputy Prime Minister who serves as an assistant to the Taoiseach, helping with the day-to-day running of the region. They deleted threads on the forums and used their powers gameside as a Regional Officer to completely wipe the WFE, change the region’s flag, and create a poll on the regional message board mocking the government of Caer Sidi. Moreover, they abused a weakness in the regional Discord’s role hierarchy, as they used their existing permissions in their government role to add a bot role to themselves, therefore giving them access to permissions they would not originally have had. With these permissions, they deleted about half of the Discord’s channels and removed many people from the server.
Immediately after the event, Itchkerie, who goes by the Discord tag Vasco da Gamer#4950, messaged the Taoiseach, their boss and the person who appointed them. These are the logs:
Though the damage is extensive, many government officials remain positive about the situation. Aynia, who serves as one half of the monarchy of Caer Sidi, says that the damage can be reversed, stating that: “I should be able to get back what was lost on the forums, as it was also on the old forums. It was updated and edited a little bit but I should be able to edit it back from memory,” and that they are working on “remaking the [Discord] channels.” They are also optimistic that “soon everything will be back to normal.”
At the time of writing, the administration of Caer Sidi has already begun fixing much of the damage. The gameside WFE has been recovered, and they are currently working on restoring deleted forum threads, rebuilding the Discord channels, and fixing the role hierarchy so similar events in the future can be avoided.
Vice Chief of State Kuramia, who also serves as councilor of foreign affairs, gave the following response when asked for comment: "It's absolutely deplorable that someone would sink to this level. Caer Sidi has a rich history and an extensive roleplaying background. I am heartened to see them bouncing back. Their positive attitude goes to show that one troll will not succeed in tearing down a solid community like Caer Sidi."
Chief of State Malashaan has also released an official statement on the situation, saying that "these acts are a clear violation of the Convention on Off-Site Property Security. Consequently, the perpetrator, Itchkerie, shall henceforth be a persona non grata in Europeia," and wishing Caer Sidi "well in recovering from these unjustified attacks and we have offered to provide any assistance we can."
Caer Sidi is also currently participating in the Region of the Week programme with Europeia, organised by Councilor of Coordination Peeps. Peeps made a statement about the situation in the related thread, stating: "The person culpable has been banned from the Region of the Week server and an invite that they issued, which fortunately was not used, was revoked as well. We do not foresee any changes to the event due to this unfortunate incident. We wish Caer Sidi a speedy recovery, a recovery which is ongoing as I write this."
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include a statement from the Chief of State.
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