>>82920
I didn't want to mention how i got the board because i thought there was a flaw in the claims system but I don't think thats the case anymore after seeing http://8ch.net/sudo/res/5184.html.
So I'll just explain what happened since i think it's safe enough to do so now.
On August 1st i noticed /fringe/ was claimable so i contacted smiley and told him to log in to prevent the board from being nuked again, i went to sleep woke up and he still hadn't responded and it was still claimable so i sent in a claims request. Later that day he messages me, logs in and /fringe/ was removed from the claims page. I thought my claim request would be nulled at that point but apparently that wasn't the case since I still got the board. I hadn't sent any claim request's since august 1st and I don't know if /fringe/ was actually claimable in the time span between yesterday and August 2nd. But if it wasn't, then in my mind one of three possibilities happened.
1. Whenever a board is claimable, if a claim request is sent in and the owner signs in AFTER the request is sent, then the person that sent in the request gets the board even after it was removed from the claims list. (this is what i originally thought happened and did my best to obfuscate how i got the board)
2. The guy Codemonkey hired just fucked up and gave me the board on accident.
3. Smiley hadn't actually signed in and the board was actually claimable.
I don't know which happened for sure but I'm leaning towards negligence on the part of the guy codemonkey hired. Attached is the email that got me /fringe/.