Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31377726-20160321063151/@comment-27701762-20160416183141

HIT IT wrote: Mabian wrote: I can understand the basic sentiment, but at the end of the day I'm going to side with the dataminers against Toby. For a few reasons.

The first is perhaps the most obvious: no matter how many warnings you put in, people are going to discover the information and post it. People datamine for any number of reasons: sometimes it's just to figure out how the game works, sometimes it's to discover secrets, sometimes it's to find ways to break the game, and so on. And among dataminers, some could read that message and abide by the creator's wishes, and some will inevitably post it, either in the case of fully disclosing everything in the game, or even for the feeling of power at having messed with the creator's plans. All this being known, to ask people A) not to datamine the game, and B) if they are going to datamine, to not post specific things, is absolutely ludicrous. How does "People will do it anyway" make it more moral?

It's like piracy. The main "argument" for it is "everyun duz ut". Doesn't make it moral. On what grounds is datamining immoral on its own?