Talk:Just Dance 2014/Beta Elements/@comment-24051831-20200103201029/@comment-24264457-20200104062148

Okay, now that the situation is resolved let me set the record straight.

There was a bit of miscommunication regarding the origin and context of those images. While Vlad was the creator of them, he did not explicitly say they were real. Other users in the Discord server that he originally posted them in (not the wiki server) wrongfully made that assumption. At the time of the edit war I did not have a straight answer from him as to the legitimacy of those images. However, I did know that a “he said, she said” edit war between those who thought the image was real and those who did not would not solve anything. I had my suspicions about the images and wanted to get an answer straight from Vlad himself as no one had gotten a straight yes or no from him at the time. In the meantime, to prevent the edit war from happening, I protected the pages until I knew for sure I could be online again to see Vlad’s response as I could not guarantee another admin would be online to prevent the edit war from happening. Once Vlad responded that he made the images himself to see what a white-skinned coach would look like, revealing this whole thing to be a huge misunderstanding, the images were removed and the protection was lifted. He did not claim they were betas, this was wrongfully assumed by other community members.

However, this does not decrease his credibility as, again, he was not the one who said they were real. The images just spread by people who misread the context in which they were originally posted. If your only argument against his credibility is “just because he is trustworthy doesn’t mean that everything that comes out his mouth is the truth”, then that’s not really a solid argument because you could say that about literally anybody people deem trustworthy. That argument basically boils down to “this person has never lied before and there is no indication they would, but I still think they could and I’m not gonna trust them.” With that logic, you could literally trust no one. Not me, not you, not Ubisoft, not anybody. It makes no sense. Do we make mistakes? Yes, everybody does, we’re human beings, it happens. But do the mistakes equate to lies and undermine our credibility? No, no it doesn’t, at least not for the people involved in this situation.