Quote Originally Posted by DarkstaR View Post
This is a bit of a contradictory view. You basically beg for better obfuscation, but you make a back-handed implication that you're willing to move to another bot with NO OBFUSCATION. This leads me to believe that it's not a matter of preserving your own intellectual property, but, instead, a severe case of "they have it, I want it". Now, there's nothing wrong with that attitude, but I wish you'd at least admit that it is your ultimate reason for making this post. (Hint: If its not, then you really have trouble with expressing what you feel.)

I admit, having encryption for JX was a problem, as they were a third-party service like everyone else. Why should they have a privilege? One of the main reason to incorporate Cavitt and Joshwa into OX Scripts was to set a dividing line that says "These scripts have DarkstaR's stamp of approval". The purpose of this partitioning was to make it clear why they were the only group to get encryption: because they are the only group that I can give my approval to. This doesn't mean that I have some inherent bias against you, but more that I have a bias towards trusting Cavitt. That may seem unfair, but he's the only person on this forum who has jumped out of a fucking airplane with me. Yadig?

In comparison, SS is a bunch of people that I have only mild acquaintances with. I know that you, @Nakuu, and your team are dedicated to XenoBot, and I do have respect for that. You maintain the suggestions thread, you're active in the community, and you're pretty chill when you're not talking to Cavitt or Joshwa. But, at the end of the day, there have been millions of people just like me that have given power to millions of people that appeared to have the same genuine intentions as you, and have still been fucked over. There's nothing I have from you guys that says "Nick, you can trust us 100% not to put malicious shit inside of scripts". If I was making this decision at the discretion of my own risk, I'd probably say "sure, I'll give it a shot". But that's not the case. As soon as I decide to let you use xblua, I'm deciding, for everybody on my forum, that you can be trusted. Sure, it's their choice if they want to make a purchase from you, but many XenoBot users don't pay attention to the forum politics, reputations, and what-have-you. They just buy scripts.

As soon as there's no way for some experienced know-it-all like Hugo, 4pan, or Rydan to come along and say "Dude, these scripts are fucking stealing your shit", there's potential for people to get greedy, have their eyes light up with the proverbial dollar signs, and do something sneaky. You might say "but if I wanted to be malicious and steal from people without anybody knowing, I could just obfuscate the scripts myself and make the cod every hard to understand". And that's exactly my point.
Thanks, actually more polite and well based answer than expected

I understand you can't trust us in the same way you do with Syntax, that's understandable.

Basically I have just one thing to comment on which is the first paragraph. We would not have made this thread unless the rules were the same for every team. If others would not have had the opportunity for your .xblua we would play by the rules and do what we could. If the play-rules would have been the same for every team, sharing would've been a collective problem, while atm I'm sure it only affects us mostly, perhaps other scripters as well. It's just as Nakuu described, irritating, and quite de-motivating knowing we can improve our scripts, but as soon as we've done that someone gonna release it for free, while there is a sollution so nearby at hand but yet not reachable. I'm sure you're aware of the feeling while there was some xenobot crack out in the open.

Guess I have nothing more to say.

edit: About scripts being shared amongs moderators I believe we mean Joshwa being in the chat-group where this sharing has its origin and not doing anything about it is kinda unprofessional as a moderator. Nothing personally against Joshwa, just the role as a moderator might be a bit higher professionality expected.