Today, Bungie chose to spotlight another forging community. Bungie.net : Community Spotlight - Forge Union : 9/16/2009 3:31 PM PDT So I hop on, and the first thing I find is someone ripping off ForgeHub maps: http://forge-union.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6522 The worst part is that several "staff" were congratulating him on his work. EDIT: The post has now been removed by FU staff
OK, first off, there is no such thing as a "ForgeHub Map". A lot of people who make maps on FH are members of other forging sites too. They might have a different username on those other sites. Then they post their map that is legitimately theirs. Secondly, map stealing is a problem on all sites, not just that particular one. Thirdly, just because the staff is congratulating him on how good work, does not mean that they support map stealing. They probably do not know that the map was stolen.
The guy who had his map ripped of is Val, a premium member of ForgeHub. The guy posting on Forge Union is not Val. I only decided to post about this as Forge Union was just featured by Bungie, therefore likely to be prone to stealers for a while. I wasnt accusing FU staff of endorsing stealing, but the POA3 is a map dedicated forgers are likey to recognise. EDIT: FU staff have removed the map, so they are OK after all