Thread:FishTank/@comment-1073922-20160713053758

I have deliberately chosen to post on your Message Wall instead of your requested method of emailing you, so that this issue (and any response) is public record and not hidden away in a private exchange. On Discord last night, you wrote:

You seem to be wrong on all three counts:


 * It was actually observed on my wiki, and curiously by everyone except CzechOut.
 * It was there for at least 30 hours, the time from when I posted [ a screenshot] to when I recorded [ a video] in an attempt to refute CzechOut's accusations of Photoshop.
 * CzechOut contradicts you in [ this edit]: "Engineers at Wikia have now found the bug and are going to quash it. ... Not only are we going to fix the coding error itself, we're going to outright block the advertiser on your site so that it never happens again."

I see two possibilities:


 * CzechOut is correct, and the code that inserts advertisements has been found. Portable Infoboxes were designed to support ads, but they were removed at the last minute when we caught them.
 * You are correct, and the code that inserts advertisements has not been found. Your team, which handles Portable Infoboxes, cannot understand their own coding and has not attempted to solve the problem in the nine months since that forum.

Neither option inspires confidence in the Portable Infobox project and Vanguard as a group. Would you have sneaked the code in and let it go into production if I hadn't tried it for myself, and the RuneScape Wiki hadn't made a fuss about it? Are the communities that have switched over to Portable Infoboxes unknowingly serving their readers even more advertisements right now? 