Monday, May 5, 2008

Chaos at Icon Buffet

Im an avid fan of Icon Buffet which is basically a place where people can trade icons with each other.Its an online community thing with a forum and its main attraction is the fact that every month afew sets of icons are released by the chefs(icon designers and developers of the website).These icons can be used for anything and they are free!!!Every month you get one free set of cool icons and 10 tokens which you use to get other icon sets from people.Ive got about 28 icons so far but there are loads of them with different themes and styles.

Afew days ago a user named elnitido52 used ASCII art to express his love for iconBuffet.ASCII is a form of art where you use alphabets and numbers to make an image.The image read "You Know What...I Love Icon Buffet.The chefs took this the wrong way and told him to stop doing ASCII art cause its messy and annoying.We were all shocked with their response and they took it further by starting an investigation on elnitido52 by claiming that he created fake accounts.Icon Buffet has a strict policy on creating multiple accounts because you can cheat the whole purpose of the game by doing this.Our dear friend elnitido52 has loads of relatives and friends so being a great fan of Icon Buffet he told them to join and in turn he got a referral which gives you points.They closed every account which was under his referral causing great chaos on the forums.Some of the members decided to show their support by using elnitido52's avatar which is a rotating 3d pirate cross bone .





I wrote a post talking about how ASCII was one of the first forms of graphic design and quoted wikipedia on how its done.Being an icon design site they should respect one of the origins of graphic design but they simply deleted my post and threatened to close/deactivate my account!!!This is nothing but Anarchy in its lowest form...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well, the fact is he certainly DID cheat more or less and i ask him about this several months ago and got a very rude response (i had no intention to report it). I just found it weird to many Accounts have only AMS and this 'pirate' as only friend. The fact is its nearly impossible to prove. That's why he got Account back and it was the right decision.