Anime-club.ro
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Anime-Club is a Romanian anime site created by Chibimox and currently mentained by Coyotee and Ranma.
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Staff
Because the "creator" is missing, the de facto root administrator has become a character nicked Coyotee, by his full name Grigore Ionuţ Alexandru, a quiet-tempered but keeping the "morals" or the community, some would say bending to them, and judging from the writing manual, a grammar-obssessed person, currently living in Bucharest. He is reported having finished a faculty and his current work domain is unknown. It is possible that he would be living just out of the contract with maintaining Animax's forum. Following him is Ranma, a faculty student with bad temper and moldovian dialect speaker. Recently, another user was strangely adapted into that group, despite being at almost the same time banned on the Animax forum, administrated by the same person(s) as anime-club. Her nick is Muza-chan and by some appearences, the only uninvolved member of the staff in the forum wars, as her background can be initially tracked down to the considered rival site.
Another unofficial power-user around there is The Different Mechanist, as Coyotee's left-hand, for about 2 years now and administrator at Animax. He is the one designated and allowed to do the dirty work, when the opportunity arises, and often characterised as an internet troll.
Moderators
The moderators are said to be picked on by the time they were on the site and by the contributions they made in the beginning for the creation of the site, thus using "sentimental blackmail" to gain their positions and to enforce site politics, although the most recent addition of Muza-chan might be a sign of things beginning to change. This and the mod linch that happened some time before this event, where a few old ranking and high-regarded (or at least more feared for their positions, than respected) moderators dared to go against the pet-project of Coyotee, the so-called Project Sakura, an online interactive magazine made in association by him, TDM and other contributors. As such, TDM was given a free hand in making a topic only for insulting them, dragging them through the mud and the freedom of anything being kept on that topic, to put them "in their place". This resulted in them giving their resignation after about the first 10 pages of insults, and the temporary closing of the topic when it reached page 15 and started off-topic-ing into even older issues (as the ro-anime takeover). It can be now found in their /b/ section.
Mentality
The atmosphere there is very specific of the "internet snobbery" present on Wikipedia and other considered-evolved sites. However, as it was always a relativly close community (sometimes twoards xenophoby), there are several mutations of this phenomenon. Firstly, it's "the old gang", members registered at the very beginning of the site or close to it, and another factor in this may be the real-life contact they had between each others. As such, all in this group are considered always right and any attempt to contradict an idea, whether in a legitimate way or not, are quickly put down and attempted humiliated by this group.
Their paranoia and group hatered has extended considerably with the creation of manga-anime.ro and some time after, the coliding of forces with it. As a result, all members from "m-a" were treated from outright scorne to attempted indoctrination or forcibly inclusion. Any new member was (and is probably still) checked of any relation with that site and are reminded and researched for it on the newcommers page. Comments vary from "it's good that m-a falls once in a while so the smart people from there can find out about us", "I don't know what you learned at m-a, but here, spam is not allowed" to "don't worry, we're not like m-a, we don't ban you for just stating your oppinion". While the last is true, for image purposes mostly, posting an oppinion in relative disagreance with the main group's is usually a result of attempted ridicule of that member. Catch-phrases also include "Stop talking about things you don't know about", without however explaining the "unknown" to others as it would be normal, and used as an offensive phrase in the attempt of proving the other's lack of knowledge. It was recenly adopted by TDM.
