BXB E-drama Episode 356: "The Leak"

Well, over the last few days we've had somewhat of a crisis on our hands at BXB and we've been struggling to come to terms with what it all really means for us.

A few days ago I was made aware that a member of the BXB team had been leaking screengrabs of our staff forum to people not authorised to see them. I'm not going to go into detail about who or what because that's not really important.

What is important is simply how bad this had made myself, Ash and the BXB team feel about the whole thing. Due to the fact we don't know exactly who did leak the screens we've had to remove nine members of staff from their roles as reviewers and mods to try to ensure this doesn't happen again.

Basically, the BXB team has been reduced to the bare minimum we can run on and hence things might get a little ropey for a while on the site while we try to readjust to the new situation.

We'll be letting the dust settle a little on the whole affair for a while but could potentially look at recruiting new members of staff. These will be recruited entirely from the forums and from nowhere else as I believe that being part of the community means the person cares about the community and would never do such a two-faced act as what has happened this week.

We're also undermanned as Bill Bennett is taking a well deserved break from the site along with one of our news writers leaving to write for another forum which means extra pressure is put on the exsisting team to keep the content fresh.

I'm certainly going to be upping my game on BXB over the next couple of weeks to try and balance out the losses we've suffered recently.

I think the whole affair is rather sad as the acts of one person have really affected a large number of people. 9 people no longer work on a site they love, doing something they love and the remaining 12 are feeling angry and frustrated that this could have been done by someone they thought they could trust.