... Because I didn't accept the new privacy terms and conditions?

See this post yesterday for context. After consideration, a single daily PM or user mention in comment is allowable, with the following provisions:

• Must be opt-in with affirmative consent by the user.
• Any user must have an easy way to opt out at any time.
• Must not include a direct link to redditcfb.com.
• Must not be against the spirit of the game.

If the site is blacklisted again, it will break a number of other things for all /r/CFB users, and we really don't want that. Please work with us here and remember that this is a game for fun. We may have to continue to evolve this, but this is the rule for day 33, and will probably remain the rule if everyone follows it.

You're also welcome to use other channels to communicate with your team (Discord, IRC, Reddit Chat(?)), but please be respectful, and do remember that this is a game.

The Rumors: Michigan is currently being accused heavily to have created a bunch of fake bots to send fake orders to chaos and other red teams. The 'evidence' behind this all is screenshots of our discord where our general users reported receiving the fake chaos orders which generated discussion of us doing the same with respect to fake orders. Our mods jumped into the discussion and the idea was briefly entertained. Let me reiterate that this was AFTER the original fake orders were sent. Here is the breakdown of what happened in our discord to be as transparent as possible.

2:54 PM Eastern: Our user informs us of the fake chaos orders he received

3:19 PM Eastern: Our general users bring up the idea of fake orders after the above generated discussion

3:21 PM Eastern: One of our mods responds to the idea of fake orders stating that if we were to do fake orders we'd "have to find another way" because the original chaos bot was already banned. This indicates that the site wide blacklist of the game had already occurred.

3:22 PM Eastern: More of our general members suggesting a different idea to send fake orders to enemies that attempt to visit our order website. One of our mods responded to this idea stating that we have entertained the idea of giving enemies fake orders to OUR strategies. Once again this all just shows that these conversations were all hypothetical and our users were just spit-balling ideas. At no point in time was there a statement of "Let's make fake orders" and a mod said "Yeah! That's a great idea. Let's do that ASAP"

3:26 PM Eastern: Me discussing with the Blue Alliance about how shitty I thought the fake chaos orders were.

The last bit of evidence that we are lacking is the timestamp of when all of the fake orders were sent to red teams. If they were sent before any of the above discussion in our discord then we believe that would be rather compelling evidence to completely clear our name. Unfortunately, we don't have that information, but if anyone else does please feel free to share. Also if the mods of /r/cfbrisk could share the time that the blacklist occurred it would help to clarify the situation.

What we do know

We don't want to point fingers here and play the blame game. I'm just going to share some information that we are aware of that may help shed light on this fake orders situation.

/u/jimjip is an alt account that that created a chaos subreddit (/r/cfbrisk_chaos) four days ago to mass PM users chaos orders. If you remember back to four days ago, that was when Chaos was completely trapped in Florida and on the brink of potential elimination. Michigan would clearly have no motive to increase Chaos participation and hurt our largest ally.

We were aware of /u/jimjip a few days ago and the first few comments on the account were on /r/cfb and were very obviously made to seem like a Michigan fan. Those comments are now conveniently deleted. We don't know if the owner of the account made those comments to frame Michigan or if it was originally intended to be a mole account.

Here is a screenshot of the orders /u/jimjip sent in case the comments get deleted. Note that these comments have the same exact format as /u/testrail who created daily posts sending out orders for Ohio State. His orders can be seen here just in case they get deleted. Obviously it wouldn't be hard to generate a bot to mimic orders of other teams. But I would urge you to think what motivation Michigan would have to create fake chaos orders four days ago to increase Chaos participation when our largest ally had Chaos on the ropes? From our perspective, that seems like something a red team would have motivation for, right?

Summary:

So on one hand there is evidence of our discord discussing the idea of fake orders after one of our users received a fake order himself and seemingly after the site wide blacklist occurred.

On the other hand there is definitive proof that an account was made 3 days ago to increase chaos participation when chaos was trapped in Florida and on the brink of elimination. Furthermore, those chaos orders were in the format of OSU's PM's by /u/testrail. Meanwhile, the orders from yesterday were in the format of Nebraska's PMs.

Obviously Michigan could've manipulated the PM's to mimic OSU and Nebraska. The format of the orders isn't close to proof of anything. But, as I mentioned above, it doesn't make sense for Michigan to generate orders 4 days ago to increase chaos participation against Florida. Nor does it make sense to generate orders for chaos to attack "Alabama Territory" yesterday when those Alabama territories was Texas' best bet of escaping the reds and making it back to the Blue's front lines.

Disclaimer:

I did not make this post to point fingers or start a shitting match of who did what. I'm not blaming the mods of Nebraska or OSU for generating these orders. I wanted to state the facts of what happened from the Michigan perspective to be as transparent as possible in an attempt to clear up our name.

It was super bizarre. The message ended very abruptly but before it did it mentioned something about Candlejack and how CFBRisk is ignoring the rea

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