Chet wrote:

Mr. Faliszek also successfully implicates his employer, Valve Software, in this illegal activity. He is admittedly an employee of that company who has posted to the Quarter to Three Forums no less than 3,194 times when he composed the Faliszek Libel. Mr. Faliszek further admits that he has engaged in activities of this sort for at least eight years – he was presumably employed by Valve Software for a significant part of this time. It is hard to imagine that this employer is unaware of such activities that relate so directly to its primary business, thus raising the likelihood that he will be deemed an agent of that enterprise in such actions. A posting that is admittedly intended to harm that employer’s competitor directly lends the flavor of an authorized undertaking for one’s employer. Even if Mr. Faliszek’s position with that company is significantly below the managerial level, the circumstances of his posting activity are likely to lead to a finding that Valve has ratified this general undertaking. Mr. Faliszek’s denials on this front are unavailing and unpersuasive.

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As a favor to tom chick (he runs QT3), i told him to do as he pleases, which resulted in the removal of the complete threads. If it was just me, alone without brad desperately trying to pin this on valve, i would have put up more of a stink (ultimately in that case still doing what was needed to help tom), but in my opinion brad just wants a fight against valve, look at what the big bad guys did to little old me... which can't be farther from the truth.

And oddly, it seems - in my opinion of course - that according to brad and his lawyers, a disclaimer is not a disclaimer, but an admission of proof and should be read to mean the opposite. So if any of you post on QT3, that is why I am not posting their anymore, Tom doesn't need to be in the middle of anything, and I have learned a new lesson. To small petty men, I am a celebrity and a target.