Originally Posted by
memox
I'm quite disgusted by the lack of dignity shown in the comments. I have helped players in the past to restore accounts, medals, get back credits from mistakenly buying two MM and also gangs that have been deleted by "mistake". I've helped players who have gotten their accounts hacked to restore what could be saved. For anyone playing it must be obvious that the gang was deleted by mistake. How can it be unfair that I step in and sort out the situation? It won't affect the game play of any other player. However, it will potentially affect who will win top gang this round. The rules are there to make it clear that we won't step in and sort out every small mistake that is made but if we can help out to solve an obviously unintended situation I these days don't see any reasons why.
2 rounds ago smk himself found himself in a situation where his gang was unintentionally deleted. At that point I didn't reason as I do these days so I denied his request to restore the gang. That situation was sorted out because of Pablo's investigation which lead to hamada being banned and smk's gang being restored. That incident made me revalue my responsibility. When this happened to smk there were a lot of opinions, just like now, and some of those opinions were that I was corrupt for helping smk. Now you are accusing me for being corrupt for not "helping" smk. Please try and understand that I have no personal interest in who wins this game.
I will not help players that make the same mistakes several times but when I can I think the only fair thing is to help out when I have the means to do so and it doesn't hurt any other player. In my opinion restoring this gang will not hurt any other player since it doesn't undo any action made by someone else. Other gangs and players still have their points and stats that they've worked for. Giving back stats for a bad assault or a robbery that didn't succeed will of course not happen, that would be insane.
Having that said, I will consult my crew before proceeding in this matter.
Feedback is of course welcome. Flaming, unfocused and inappropriate comments will be disregarded - as always.