FromTheSouth
You don't want it with me.
Well, I am, once again, newly single. Six months with the girl, three months of it's being intense, and it's over. Irreconcilable differences would be the way the divorce papers would read. I decided today that a change is always a good thing, so I shaved my beard. That wasn't enough for me though. I've missed a couple of you and thought nothing of the rest, but I feel like I owe you all my story.
Every mod, when they leave the staff, seems to post their history somewhere in these forums, and this place shall be the canvas on which I paint my portrait.
I started on these forums after The Online Onslaught closed. I used that site mostly for flaming, but rose to a bit of a position of prominence in a debate over whether tombstoning Vickie Guerrero should be considered an endorsement of violence against women. My argument was that Vickie was a fully empowered woman making her own decisions. Well, anyway, the forums closed, I never got to finish the debate. In the wake of that disappointment, I searched for a new forum, and the first one to pop us was WZ. I decided to give it a try.
On my first night, CM infracted me twice for spamming on posts that would not even generate a second glance from the mods under the current rules. I then decided that reading the rules would be a better idea than flaming the staff to hell. As time progressed I made some e-friends. The first people I conversed with were KB, Becca, and TM. The first people I looked up to were IC and Shocky. I grew to view these forums as one big fucked family and got sucked into all the side drama, bickering, and intelligent discourse that this site offers. I feel that my first big splash was in the original incarnation of the WZ Debate League. I debated KB over some bullshit, think I won and suddenly, people took notice.
After this, I went through a barfly phase. NorCal and I began to be friends in his thread. NorCal was the first poster on this site that reminded me of me, an alpha male with little emotion, no filter, and a love of vagina. Over time, a couple of other posters, notably Gunnz, Brahma, IC and D-Man joined that group.
Almost from the beginning I was sucked into Chit Chat (now the Cigar Lounge.) My long, rambling, right wing posts garnered me some attention. It was as if I was a new voice. This is also where I met my first nemesis, Mr. Eko. At first I hated him. His leftist views made me sick. My fascism made him want to murder me. We flamed the shit out of each other. And, this was not flaming like when everyone calls Zero the fifteenth an idiot. These were death wishes. Well, X disappeared and by that time, I had conquered Chit Chat. Beyond Becca, who was the mod, that was my section. I created the action, made the threads, and destroyed anyone who debated me. Soon after, X came back, and for whatever reason, hatred turned to respect. After that, we found common ground in our love of illicit narcotics, and became friends. He is still someone who I value greatly as a voice of reason in my reactionary mind.
This is also about the time that MSNgate happened. For those of you who don't know, TM tried to start a cabal of posters who would rep each other over and over in the hopes that our increased rep would make us mods. I thought this was a terrible idea, but I liked the rep, so I kept quiet. If there was a way to look back, I was getting rep 10 to 1 in relation to how I was giving it to the group. This is how rep got so inflated and why I got 25,000 rep points in two years, and why it takes you guys 12 posts to get 25 points.
Not surprisingly, the shit hit the fan, and sides had to be chosen. There has been much debate over time about how the plan got leaked to the staff, but I can explain it. I was in line for the Chit Chat (Cigar Lounge) mod spot. In an effort to prove my worthiness, I increased my posting volume and dedication to the site. In the interest of maintaining the credibility of the site, I spilled the beans. There was an idea of what was going, but I did, in fact divulge the plot. It was a ludicrous idea in the first place, and frankly, I was annoyed by the way shit posts were getting repped in the bar room, and my well thought out posts about ending the brandsplit weren't getting noticed. At this point, I had had enough, and when KB asked me if I knew anything, I cried like the patsy in a bad mob movie.
Soon after that, I released this gem of a post:
Exile me from the IWC
That post was enough to win over the admins, and then I was modded.
To be continued.....
Every mod, when they leave the staff, seems to post their history somewhere in these forums, and this place shall be the canvas on which I paint my portrait.
I started on these forums after The Online Onslaught closed. I used that site mostly for flaming, but rose to a bit of a position of prominence in a debate over whether tombstoning Vickie Guerrero should be considered an endorsement of violence against women. My argument was that Vickie was a fully empowered woman making her own decisions. Well, anyway, the forums closed, I never got to finish the debate. In the wake of that disappointment, I searched for a new forum, and the first one to pop us was WZ. I decided to give it a try.
On my first night, CM infracted me twice for spamming on posts that would not even generate a second glance from the mods under the current rules. I then decided that reading the rules would be a better idea than flaming the staff to hell. As time progressed I made some e-friends. The first people I conversed with were KB, Becca, and TM. The first people I looked up to were IC and Shocky. I grew to view these forums as one big fucked family and got sucked into all the side drama, bickering, and intelligent discourse that this site offers. I feel that my first big splash was in the original incarnation of the WZ Debate League. I debated KB over some bullshit, think I won and suddenly, people took notice.
After this, I went through a barfly phase. NorCal and I began to be friends in his thread. NorCal was the first poster on this site that reminded me of me, an alpha male with little emotion, no filter, and a love of vagina. Over time, a couple of other posters, notably Gunnz, Brahma, IC and D-Man joined that group.
Almost from the beginning I was sucked into Chit Chat (now the Cigar Lounge.) My long, rambling, right wing posts garnered me some attention. It was as if I was a new voice. This is also where I met my first nemesis, Mr. Eko. At first I hated him. His leftist views made me sick. My fascism made him want to murder me. We flamed the shit out of each other. And, this was not flaming like when everyone calls Zero the fifteenth an idiot. These were death wishes. Well, X disappeared and by that time, I had conquered Chit Chat. Beyond Becca, who was the mod, that was my section. I created the action, made the threads, and destroyed anyone who debated me. Soon after, X came back, and for whatever reason, hatred turned to respect. After that, we found common ground in our love of illicit narcotics, and became friends. He is still someone who I value greatly as a voice of reason in my reactionary mind.
This is also about the time that MSNgate happened. For those of you who don't know, TM tried to start a cabal of posters who would rep each other over and over in the hopes that our increased rep would make us mods. I thought this was a terrible idea, but I liked the rep, so I kept quiet. If there was a way to look back, I was getting rep 10 to 1 in relation to how I was giving it to the group. This is how rep got so inflated and why I got 25,000 rep points in two years, and why it takes you guys 12 posts to get 25 points.
Not surprisingly, the shit hit the fan, and sides had to be chosen. There has been much debate over time about how the plan got leaked to the staff, but I can explain it. I was in line for the Chit Chat (Cigar Lounge) mod spot. In an effort to prove my worthiness, I increased my posting volume and dedication to the site. In the interest of maintaining the credibility of the site, I spilled the beans. There was an idea of what was going, but I did, in fact divulge the plot. It was a ludicrous idea in the first place, and frankly, I was annoyed by the way shit posts were getting repped in the bar room, and my well thought out posts about ending the brandsplit weren't getting noticed. At this point, I had had enough, and when KB asked me if I knew anything, I cried like the patsy in a bad mob movie.
Soon after that, I released this gem of a post:
Exile me from the IWC
That post was enough to win over the admins, and then I was modded.
To be continued.....
Hope things get better.
