Oh, and is it just me or has the LBP servers been down for a day or two now??

Many levels are being deleted without copyright infringement or other bad content. The only explanation is that Sony / Media Molecule doesn’t have the manpower to examine each level and determine its appropriateness – instead they peformed a mass deletion last Sunday/Monday and most likely will continue to do so based upon snitches or other mal-intented people determine for whatever reason in getting a level offline.

People have gone to Sam – Sony’s representative – to try to get their levels back online – and he has not looked at the levels or attempted to fix the problem – just more evidence they don’t have the manpower or good faith to help their community which is giving them so much money for their release – and authors who are increasing its value.

Basically they are screwing their community.

Their attempt is here is nothing more than damage control – the truth is that they are not going to authors to work out the problems – they just performed a mass deletion and don’t want to devote money to helping users fix supposed issues – but more probably devote money into examining and negotiating and interpreting users complaints using the Good Grief (aka snitch) mechanism.

Let me explain how this works – you see something in a level you don’t like as a user – you press a button and it takes a snapshot. You have about 10 sample words to choose one from from as to why it is bad (e.g. Offensive or Copyright Violation) and then its submitted.

Next thing you know – the levels are deleted. No comment from Sony or Media Molecule – no notice – no recourse – and even the person from Sony who said he would help, named Sam, has not helped anyone to get their level back online.

Yes – people are pissed and rightfully so, and its much more than the number Sony has said have been affected. If it was that small – they could easily handle it in a couple days contacting people and working with them – but this is NOT being done.