[Cairenn]

Okay guys, tone it down. You know the rules. No flaming. No personal attacks. He has his concerns and it's his right to air them if he wishes. Shirik has responded, as the programmer of Minion and as a staff member of WoWI. If there is any more conversation to be had in this thread, it should be between them.

downset - I understand that you have concerns and you are certainly welcome to discuss them. However, you seem concerned that this is a third party application that we have adopted for our use. This isn't the case. It was written in-house by Shirik specifically for our sites. As well, please note that we've been running our network of sites for 7 years now and have only ever had a single instance where there were any malicious files on any of the sites (which was discovered and cleared up extremely quickly). Also note that every one of our sites are official members of the fansite programs for each of the applicable game companies. As well, we have a lot of people using Minion already. If there was any problem with our site(s) and/or Minion, those statements would no longer be true. If we weren't trustworthy, the game companies themselves would be kicking us out of their fansite programs. If there was a problem with Minion, users would have it uninstalled and it would be splashed all over the internet "do not to trust it, it is malicious".