Moderators and Feeds and Tweaks, oh my!

[Cairenn]

We've been rather quiet of late, but that doesn't mean we haven't still been doing things on the site.

We'd like to welcome two new moderators to the site, Zyonin and Shadowed. Our condol, errr, congratu, errr, thanks guys!

Dolby has tweaked the AddOn Search. Now if there is no result on your search or if it errors, it will redirect you to the advanced search.

Also, he has added new RSS feeds for comments made on any of an author's AddOns. Authors, please see your AddOn list for an RSS link.

We've had complaints off and on about difficulty finding some of the less well known resources on the site, so I've created a "directory" of sorts for the site. Check out the "forum" entitled Who's on first, what's on second? if you are looking for something and having a hard time finding it.

As well, there have been a couple minor "controversies" that have come up on the site. We've talked to Blizzard about both of them and this is what they've had to say about them:

The first has to do with LuaSrcDiet and other forms of code compression. It is Blizzard's opinion that this falls under the "no obfuscation" rule and as such is not allowed except with specific permission from Blizzard.

The second concerned a post telling people how to create and import custom mouse cursors into WoW. In talking to Blizzard about it, they said that MPQs are part of their proprietary software and as such are not to be altered or "faked" in any way (including creating your own "new" ones). They fall under the following sections of the EULA and ToU:

From the EULA:

Last Updated July 29, 2008 WORLD OF WARCRAFT® END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT < snip > 2. Additional License Limitations. The license granted to you in Section 1 is subject to the limitations set forth in Sections 1 and 2 (collectively, the "License Limitations"). Any use of the Game in violation of the License Limitations will be regarded as an infringement of Blizzard's copyrights in and to the Game. You agree that you will not, under any circumstances: E. modify or cause to be modified any files that are a part of the Game Client in any way not expressly authorized by Blizzard;

From the ToU:

WORLD OF WARCRAFT® TERMS OF USE AGREEMENT Last Updated July 29, 2008 < snip > 2. Additional License Limitations. The license granted to you in Section 1 is subject to the limitations set forth in Sections 1 and 2 (collectively, the "License Limitations"). Any use of the Service or the Game Client in violation of the License Limitations will be regarded as an infringement of Blizzard’s copyrights in and to the Game. You agree that you will not, under any circumstances: D. modify or cause to be modified any files that are a part of the Game Client or the Service in any way not expressly authorized by Blizzard;