by OrnsteinBro Thu Sep 05, 2013 2:32 pm
Soris Ice Goldwing wrote:Some things are better left in the dark. My issue is the fact it tells you how to perform it. Countering it sure but not knowing how to do it.
No.
It is essential to know how to perform something to be able to counter it. Not understanding the process that makes a counter work pretty much invalidates the usefulness of a counter, as an intelligent glitcher can always work around what is effectively a laundry list of instructions.
Furthermore, restricting information only serves to make it even more difficult to identify what type of glitch you are trying to counter (and, as a result, make countering even more difficult), since there are potentially many ways to achieve the same thing the glitch does.
Covering up information also reduces the number of people working on countering the glitch/tactic, drastically reducing the chances that a fix or a counter will ever reach the general public. Basically, it greatly widens the gap between the people who know how to exploit it and do, and the people who don't.
In this respect, glitching very similar to security flaws; they're both arms races. There is always bound to be some loophole somewhere, and the most important element to handling said loophole is awareness. The fact that one person can discover it just means that there are many more out there who potentially also could do the same, and abuse it.
That's why these things shouldn't be kept in the dark, because in the long run absence of knowledge is only hurting everyone more than it is helping them.
Last edited by OrnsteinBro on Thu Sep 05, 2013 3:09 pm; edited 1 time in total