Mod Jed
| Mod Jed | ||||
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| Employed | 23 November 2015 | |||
| Left | 28 August 2018 | |||
| Role | Content Developer | |||
| Team | N/A | |||
| Social media | N/A | |||
Mod Jed is a former Content Developer at Jagex.
Notable contributions
Dismissal
Jed's Twitter account was suspended in September 2018,[1] shortly before it was announced that a member of staff working on Old School RuneScape had been dismissed from employment by Jagex.[2] This was later confirmed to be Jed by ex-Mod Mat K in an interview with ex-Mod Shauny.
As a result of the dismissal, affected users who had lost coins and other items in Old School RuneScape as a result of the staff member's misconduct had their items returned to them, and received a message in the Message Centre stating:
| “ | Hi there,
This is a message from Jagex Player Support. As part of our ongoing investigation, unusual activity was identified on a number accounts[sic], including this one, which resulted in the movement of wealth and items back into the live game. As a result of this investigation a member of The OldSchool[sic] Team has been dismissed from employment at Jagex for misuse of moderator privileges as related in the following newspost .[sic] We have decided in these rare circumstances to return your account to as close as possible the state it was in prior to the incident by returning your lost wealth. Please note that due to certain unavoidable restrictions we may return platinum instead of specific items so you can purchase replacements. We take matters like this very seriously and, as such, we would like to assure you that we have taken steps to make sure that an incident like this will not happen again. If you need further help, check out our online support centre. |
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— Jagex Player Support
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In a subsequent 2021 interview, Mat K provided further details as to the nature of Jed's offence: using the account credentials of other employees, he deliberately granted appeals incorrectly, causing players to lose large amounts of wealth and items and also threatening the careers of employees who were presumed to have granted the incorrect appeals. He also dropped the untradeable items of the players whose accounts he hacked, which Mat K considered the most malicious aspect of his activity due to the spiteful nature of the action and lack of monetary reward associated with it. [3]