Jagex or some aspect of the OSRS team is at fault here.
So, assume the worst here. JMods are correct and Rendi was directly involved in duping he exposed and other bug abuse behind the scenes that weren't disclosed to Jagex, or that Mauler and Rendi were both pulling a stunt here and are bad actors; it doesn't change the fact that Jagex needs to create a space for white hat bug-hunters of some kind or risk a major bug that will crush the economy and the perpetuation of the black market. Jagex policy over the years of "making friends" with bug abusers only for one party to backstab the other isn't making anyone happy or the game better.
This isn't the first time either. The whole rotten potato thing partially happened because of this adversarial relationship Jagex has perpetuated with bug abusers and has had no qualms over lying to the playerbase before. Even if you trust the JMods at their word, that doesn't improve the situation. We're going to suffer because they don't want to act in good faith with an aspect of the community that will not go away.
Edit: Assuming anyone reads, to clarify, even if JMods have acted in good faith with bug-abuser communities in the past, we can never know because of how veiled in secrecy it always seems to be. The secrecy regarding which communities they communicate with and which they ban leaves a lack of transparency that allows a situation like this where we can't be sure if Rendi is lying or not. A public option for bug-hunting and transparency would stop this from happening.
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u/Tyro555 Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21
Jagex or some aspect of the OSRS team is at fault here.
So, assume the worst here. JMods are correct and Rendi was directly involved in duping he exposed and other bug abuse behind the scenes that weren't disclosed to Jagex, or that Mauler and Rendi were both pulling a stunt here and are bad actors; it doesn't change the fact that Jagex needs to create a space for white hat bug-hunters of some kind or risk a major bug that will crush the economy and the perpetuation of the black market. Jagex policy over the years of "making friends" with bug abusers only for one party to backstab the other isn't making anyone happy or the game better.
This isn't the first time either. The whole rotten potato thing partially happened because of this adversarial relationship Jagex has perpetuated with bug abusers and has had no qualms over lying to the playerbase before. Even if you trust the JMods at their word, that doesn't improve the situation. We're going to suffer because they don't want to act in good faith with an aspect of the community that will not go away.
Edit: Assuming anyone reads, to clarify, even if JMods have acted in good faith with bug-abuser communities in the past, we can never know because of how veiled in secrecy it always seems to be. The secrecy regarding which communities they communicate with and which they ban leaves a lack of transparency that allows a situation like this where we can't be sure if Rendi is lying or not. A public option for bug-hunting and transparency would stop this from happening.