: Chances are, Frankie and this other 343i'er were thinking of "mods"
: in different contexts. Frankie was probably thinking strictly in the terms
: of modded playable user content (ie map and game variants, but not
: screenshots). The other person was probably thinking of "mods"
: in general. IE, modding the game files or executable themselves, for any
: reason.

We asked specifically regarding no-sprint gametypes, racing gametypes, and FFA Grifball gametypes, which are the three mods we see crop up most often on our site.

: Unless this "high up" person was someone on par
: with Frankie (eg, operations, a public face, decision maker, etc)

That's a good way to describe them. I'm not trying to be deliberately coy about who this person is, but I don't want to out someone for disagreeing with Frankie during what could have been considered a personal conversation.

We sent a follow-up e-mail to this person after RTX, with a link to Frankie's video. We asked if what he said was accurate. The response we got was, basically, "No, it's not."

Take that how you will, but I think Pete was spot-on with his conclusion.