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Take a look at this message that was sent to the ISP of a repeat offender, (you do not want to break our rules):

To Whom It May Concern:

A person at this IP address: 195.92.168.173 (Most recently: 195.92.168.170)
Has been habitually harassing the staff and members of my website, www.hogwartslive.com
This has to stop, I have already blocked the entire 195.92.168. IP range to prevent him from visiting my site anymore. However I do not want to prevent legitimate users from accessing the site so could you please somehow block this person from accessing my site or notify his parents of his heinous violations of our Terms of Use Agreement, which consist of sexual harassment and verbal threats upon my life. I am still afraid he may be able to evade the ban on this IP range and I may have to take more drastic measures if nothing is done about this such as banning the 195.92. IP range as well as an enormous amount of proxy servers.

Sincerely,
Danilo Stern-Sapad


I wrote him a nice message for when he tries to login:
"I have notified your ISP, and the owner of your internet account will be contacted. Bite me!"

People who have been banned in the past will not be even considered for staff appointment. This is final. This rule will NEVER be changed. There will be NO exceptions to this rule. I'm sorry to those players who have tried to change, but circumstances have forced me to establish a more rigid policy for staff members.

Thank you.

Should we allow repeat offenders to keep their accounts? That is after they have been permanently banned (which is really difficult to get) and decide they wish to change their ways? I consider cussing to be one of the most serious offenses that can be committed such as spam, sexual harassment, and virtual rape.

Note: I am legally obligated to prevent cussing on this website, Hogwarts Live could lose its sponsors or advertisers if I do not make an active effort to filter foul language. Children under the age of 13 use this website and I have to censor inappropriate content. I don't totally agree with censorship, but that's not the point, the point is I respect the laws of the United States of America and I want to continue operating this game in a legal, family-friendly manner.

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On Monday August 15 we lost a fellow student, wonderful friend and great player of this game… Goddess Seductress or Sky as her friends knew her died from a sudden brain aneurism… Those that knew her loved her dearly and we cherished our time with her…
Try to be like Sky and be kind to everyone and do your best to make someone smile each day that is what she did for me and I will miss her dearly….

Bellatrix

The staff (Alchemists & Aurors alike) do a lot!

Edmund helps me tons with server configuration and he walked me through the whole transfer of the data from one server to another. The other staff members also help me a lot with answering petitions, moderating the chat rooms, mediating conflicts, and in some cases assisting me with my homework. So, please don't criticize people who do their best when they're not even getting paid. Happy gaming everyone, and a happy Staff Appreciation Week! :)

Welcome everyone to the new and improved server. HogwartsLive and usharrypotter.com has been successfully moved to it's new home. We may still have more upgrades to come in the upcoming weeks to get it fully functional, but the server transfer itself is now complete.

I just purchased the new server.
It currently has these specs:

AMD Anthlon Processor
80 GB Disk space
1 GB of RAM
2 TB Monthly Transfer (Bandwidth)

The transfer will be initiated later on today.

The T-shirt design contest is still going on, check out the forums. Please note that I will tell you if I don't like your design or if I have ideas for making it better. If I don't reply it probably means I deleted it.

Thanks. :)

The great war between Light and Dark has come to a close. Peace shall reign throughout the magical world, that is until the next war...

Light points: 93346
Dark points: 36591

Okay, I'm settled down now at my apartment in a suburb of San Francisco, California that shall remain unnamed. I still don't have a computer, Internet access (I'm at school), a cell phone, or a car for that matter so bare with me. I will try and get the new server by the second week of August, during the first week though the site might be down for a couple of hours (or even days) to allow me ample time to transfer all the data from this server.