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| Title = {{PAGENAME}} | | Title = {{PAGENAME}} | ||
| Release Year =2002 | | Release Year =2002 (Blog) - 2010 (Wiki) | ||
| Product Type =Website, Video Game Archiving | | Product Type =Website, Video Game Archiving | ||
| In Production =Yes | | In Production =Yes | ||
| Official Website =https://tcrf.net | | Official Website =https://tcrf.net | ||
| Logo =TCRFLogo.png | | Logo =TCRFLogo.png | ||
}} | }}'''''The Cutting Room Floor''''' ('''TCRF''') is a website dedicated to the cataloguing of unused content and leftover debugging material in video games.<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 Dec 2013 |title=The Explorers: The gaming archaeologists digging through the code you were never meant to see |url=http://www.edge-online.com/features/the-explorers-inside-the-underground-world-of-the-archaeologists-who-dig-through-the-code-game-developers-never-wanted-you-to-see/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140218131752/http://www.edge-online.com/features/the-explorers-inside-the-underground-world-of-the-archaeologists-who-dig-through-the-code-game-developers-never-wanted-you-to-see/ |archive-date=18 Feb 2014 |access-date=28 March 2018 |website=Edge}}</ref> Launched as a blog in 2002 then reworked as a wiki in 2010, it was and still is cited as a source of unused video game content. | ||
The site is owned and administrated by Xkeeper (Rachel Mae, formely known as Alexander Todd Workman)<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 Jun 2025 |title=Alexander Workman in Federal Way, WA (Washington) |url=https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/alexander-workman_id_G4189579002804049410 |url-status=live |access-date=8 Jun 2025 |website=FastPeopleSearch.com}}</ref>. | |||
==Consumer impact summary== | ==Consumer impact summary== | ||
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==Incidents== | ==Incidents== | ||
This is a list of all consumer protection incidents related to this | This is a list of all consumer protection incidents related to this website. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{PAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]]. | ||
On June | === Harrasment on their userbase === | ||
On June 1st, the website administration celebrated Pride month with an assortment of LGBTQ+ logo variants.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=1 Jun 2025 |title=This Isn't Why I Came Here |url=https://tcrf.net/Talk:The_Cutting_Room_Floor#Happy_pride_month |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/69vhE |archive-date=6 Jun 2025 |access-date=8 Jun 2025 |website=The Cutting Room Floor}}</ref> A few long-time contributors voiced their concerns on this subject, one instance was from Jo Li on the main talk page of the site<ref name=":0" />. However, instead of civilly discussing over it, they received derogatory comments making fun of their opinions, finishing off with a permanent ban.<ref name=":0" /> | |||
This is in contrast to their at least two of their rules of conduct: | |||
* Be polite. | |||
* Assume good faith. | |||
Other users have been permanently banned on Discord after voicing their concerns. They have since locked down any invites to their server. | |||
The administrators have been actively monitoring incoming connections. As of June 8th, they have done the following: | |||
==== Ban of Tor and VPN users ==== | |||
Users connecting using Tor or a VPN are forbidded to access the content of the site, with the pretext of combating an ongoing DDOS attack.<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 Jun 2025 |title=403 Forbidden |url=https://tcrf.net/ |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250607002303/https://tcrf.net/ |archive-date=7 Jun 2025 |access-date=8 Jun 2025 |website=The Cutting Room Floor}}</ref> | |||
=== | ==== Ban of users with specific referral ID ==== | ||
... | IP-Banning users who have a referral ID coming from https://kiwifarms.st and https://www.4chan.org. In addition, users banned from this also receives a cookie without their express consent. This is potentially in violation of the GDPR<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 Nov 2019 |title=Cookies, the GDPR, and the ePrivacy Directive |url=https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250530151113/https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ |archive-date=30 May 2025 |access-date=8 Jun 2025 |website=gdpr.eu}}</ref>, stating: | ||
* Strictly necessary cookies — These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Cookies that allow web shops to hold your items in your cart while you are shopping online are an example of strictly necessary cookies. These cookies will generally be first-party session cookies. While it is not required to obtain consent for these cookies, <u>what they do and why they are necessary should be explained to the user.</u> | |||
* Statistics cookies — Also known as “performance cookies,” these cookies collect information about how you use a website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. <u>None of this information can be used to identify you.</u> It is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymized. <u>Their sole purpose is to improve website functions</u>. This includes cookies from third-party analytics services as long as the cookies are for the exclusive use of the owner of the website visited. | |||
==== Openly sharing IP addresses ==== | |||
The owner of the website posted on a now deleted Mastodon the idea of sending gzip bombs to offending users. However, he didn't hide any IP addresses from the logs. It is fair to assume that, considering the blocking of Tor and VPNs, the owner keeps logs of normal IPs and could potentially use these for unethical purposes. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[Better Way Electronics]]<br /> | |||
==References== | ==References== |