Athelfirth
From Wikinfo
- For criticism see Criticism of Athelfirth
Athelfirth has entered the "romanian ANIME forums scene" at around February 2008, when he first registered an account on AnimaxTV.ro forum . He didn't know much about forums or ANIME, but he opened a topic where he discussed about the high rating of horror and bloody anime such as Death Note. Shortly after appearing, he was abused by a part of the STAFF (Konata-chan; Alexander Krieg ) and a group of spamers ( who off course didn't receive any BAN of WARNING ) .
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The Animax Forum ( February 2008 - June 2009 )
After a few discussions on the forums where the staff was also involved, they tried to publicly humiliate him and drive him off the site, with little success. Seeing this, unfair warns for just writing a post were issued until they had enough "evidence" to permanently ban him. Unknown to him, however, people lurking around Animax, but not willing to involve themselves, watched from the background and quietly cheered for him and agreed with his actions.
After the permanent ban given by Konata[1], Athel started his raids telling the truth about the staff of the site under different aliases. His actions attracted the attention of other related characters interested in uncovering the truth and history about Animax. It is believed some time around them he got strong historical information from Iusty and trolling techniques from spartan nigga.
One of the peakes of the raids was a relative filling of the ban list with many of his clones, which led Coyotee to ban an entire IP range[2]. This is the strongest reaction ever been taken on Romanian anime forums, which however backfired in the sense that this wasn't all the available IPs of Athel, and innocent members were wrongfully banned in the process, with little hindrance to Athelfirth's raids.
Raids
8 August 2008
Athelfirth's raid on August 8, 2008 was very successful, as he employed shock images, as well as a history of Animax that was since then unknown to the users on this site, that resisted for more than 8 hours on the forum. Animax's Romanian staff concluded he was not working alone and that "he knew too much" for that, as such started rumors that one of the people they consider their greatest enemy, Iusty, was a part of the raid. Such information has not been confirmed yet, and is believe in some circles to be a desperate maneuver of Coyotee to save his own site's (Anime-Club) "good name" and implication in the Animax project. After this raid , Yume no Hime ( Alexander Krieg's most loyal pet ) will resign from the moderator title and will leave the forum . She will later be seen around 2009 when she comes back as a normal user .
17 October 2008
As a result of the forced closing of Anti-Animax-Abuse the following night, on October 17, 2008, a mass spam campaign, with most of the members having the honorific name of anon, which resulted in the administrators closing the forum for a "cleaning" of about one hour, which actually lasted no more than 15 minutes and had as a result the extra adding of Alexander Krieg as a moderator on all boards and Shaddox ( another one of Alexander Krieg's loyal pets ) also became a moderator . This raid's results would be observable only later in around June 2009 . Shaddox will later lose his control over time and will damage most of the Animax community . He will ban a lot of users and will state that those users deserved to be permently banned because they insulted him . Shaddox will lose his moderator title after some users along with Alexander Krieg start a revolution and banish him from the forum after more than a year and a half of activity . A notable anon was aton, not identified until this day, which was believed to be one of the main employers of the attack. Much later was found out that it was actually an anagram of NATO, as it was the union's day the day before.
17 February 2009
On February 17, 2009 the raid was conducted again by Athelfirth, attended by Spartan Nigga (as Che Spartan) and a few others. This time, content varried from again shock images, to apparently innocents captures from the anime One Piece, with disturbing consequences the little ones. The posts also implied that Comsa Dan sustained such content. After that, a wide-spread rumor started about the admins on Animax being in on it, with several users having been told this from various sources. A log of these events has been kept and published.[3]
Although the pictures didn't last longer than the raid on August 8, 2008, Athel feels it was an achievement for them to resist about an hour, considering Alexander Krieg was seen around in that period.
Trolls done alone
Athelfirth also trolled the forum alone . It is because one of his trolls done alone that the STAFF on Animax decided to BAN half of Romania on Romtelecom in order to stop him . He created an account with the nickname of Basorelief and spammed the whole forum during the day . The topics rezisted quite a long time because none of the STAFF members bothered to clean .
His last " troll alone " and also " the last of all trolls " was in June 2009 when he impersonated Michael Jackson but the troll was not that successfully .
The Empire Strikes Back
As a result of multiple account users and frustrating the staff at the Animax forum, the staff took the unprecedented (and rather xenophobic) decision of banning all the members known to have been associated with Athelfirth or any of his sites.
The situation in and after 2009
Athelfirth has stopped trolling Animax . He thought that what he was doind wasn't necesary anymore . Most of the community started to leave the forum . The rest of the members that remained on the forum started to troll the forum themselves . After a couple of raids they will be eventually discovered and their original accounts on the forum will be banned . Most of the users that trolled were on the forum for more than one year and some had over 1000 posts . The users on Animax forgot the definition of "SPAM" . You will rarely see any posts longer than two lines on the forum . The STAFF on that forum remained corrupted as ever . The forum got a new moderator which was proved to be Alexander Krieg's girlfriend from real life .
""" I took my revenge a long time ago . The forum will eventually destroy itself , I am not needed anymore . """ said Athelfirth .
The Manga-Anime Forum ( August 2008 - Present )
Athelfirth registered on Manga-anime.ro forum in August 2008 because there were people that helped him during the Animax raids and also because this forum was way better than Animax . Athelfirth was fascinated by this forum and decided to stay here . He opened a topic in the "New comers" section where he was greeted by many users that had heard about him and also by a user from Animax that eventually began to insult him . But he was "rescued" by the STAFF . Because of his business with Animax , Athelfirth's activity was low on Manga-anime.ro .
Most of the times he went to discuss his opinions about Alexander's A Camp. This however led to flame wars, and Alexander went repeatedly to Cedik ( one of Manga-anime.ro respected administrators ) , who hated Athel from other incidents on other sites, and to Iusty, who rejected Alexander's claims at shutting up Athelfirth . On the other hand, Cedik took the opportunity to delete most of Athelfirth's posts, although Alexander engaged in a dirtier form of was, like employing users from Anime Club to make account there and post for him and his camp . Athelfirth knew that important administrators on Manga-anime.ro didn't want cooperation with A Camp and he was annoyed to see Alexander spamming every possible ANIME forum in order to advertise his camp . So he began to post his bad opinion about Alexander and his camp but his opinion was never accepted and most people came and argued with him .
After finishing his business with AnimaxTV.ro , Athelfirth returned to Manga-anime.ro at the beginning of July 2009 . For about 20 days he posted like a norrmal user should do and was rarely involved in any conflict .
The Downfall of Manga-Anime period
One day Athelfirth saw a topic posted by Falcon on the "Announcements" section that said that he was looking for moderators for his new forum Animeplus . Athelfirth thought this would be a perfect occasion to rehabilitate his name , which was spoiled because of his raids on Animax and flame wars on different sites . So he spent about one hour in writting a mesage to Falcon in which he tried to tell why he would deserve to receive a moderator's rank . More than 3 days passed since Athelfirth had sent the message to Falcon . Athelfirth got angry because he had seen Falcon active on Manga-anime.ro in the past 3 days and he didn't even bother to reply to his message . Moreover , Manga-anime.ro main page was left without a theme . The site looked very ugly and there were a lot of users that began to ask questions on the forum's shoutbox about this but nobody bothered to respond . So Athelfirth began to write things about Falcon's past on the ANIME forums and accused him of what happened including of the fact that he didn't even bother to answer his message . Falcon's replies to Athelfirth's accusations were nothnig but insults and no explanations for what was happening .
And as always , common users from the site that knew nothing about anything jumped to protect Falcon . Falcon eventually declared that he will stop visiting ANIME sites because he said " he had enough of idiots like Athelfirth " but later it will be proved who is the real idiot . Athelfirth was surprised by the fact that he didn't receive any BAN or WARNING after this fight .
Later , Athelfirth found out that Falcon had a fight with the " main administrator " of Manga-anime.ro who removed him from the position of admin on Animeplus and Naruto Romania . So Falcon in order to avenge himself , entered Manga-anime.ro and removed the theme of the site that was also made by him . Since the " main administrator " and "Falcon" were the only ones among the administrators who could modify the theme of the site and because the "main admin" visits his forum very very rare , the forum itself entered a period of downfall .
Forces of Corruption
But this wasn't the only thing that led to the downfall . Laurelay , a person who first registered an account in 2006 and since then she slowly advanced in rank until she became an administrator , now is trying to get the forum for herself . The Manga-anime.ro forum has an option of "karma points" that can be added or deducted from a certain user by another user regarding his attitude towards him . Because of the fact that Laurelay was hated by most of the forum members , she added more than 65.000 karma points to herself in order to hide the eventual loss of points deducted by the angry users . She also deducted more than 60 karma points from a user because she got mad at him .
Soon after , more and more trolls entered Manga-anime.ro just to insult the STAFF but not bringing any further reason for their hatred . Athelfirth used to give "thumps up" to the trolls that came and he also added that indeed the site is getting worse and worse . He was later insulted by Cedik ( the former admin who has now retired ) in that same topic but Athelfirth didn't give any answer because he was banned by Laurelay too soon . The reason of the ban wasn't for the fact that Athelfirth actually agreed with the troll's sayings , it was because he used Laurelay's avatar and signature on his own profile , as a joke . And for this he was permanently banned . After that , Laurealy went to that topic opened by the troll and called both Athelfirth and the troll "dorks" .
Raids
Athelfirth , in the period when he was a member got to talk with a lot of users on the forum . And he found out that many of them hated Laurelay for what she was doing . So Athelfirth thought that it was time to do what he used to do in the past ...
Athelfirth knew a secret about the Manga-anime.ro forum that he wanted to expose to the community as a revenge for the BAN he received . It was about 2 forum sections that were visible only to the members of the forum STAFF ( moderators and admins ) and not to the common users . In one of the sections , there were discussed forum problems and ideeas in public and the other section was used as an archive for the topics that contained flames ; trolls ; spam etc. things that were considered funny by the STAFF and decided to keep them . The STAFF usually continued to post there whatever they wanted ( remarks and even insults ) without the worry of an "outsider" to see and to acuse them of breaking the forum rules .
So in 23 July 2009 Athelfirth trolled the Manga-anime.ro forum on 6 AM and the topics rezisted about 7 hours . The results weren't seen on the spot . There were many users along with Cedik ( who declared that he won't come on the forum again but looks like he had changed his mind ) that jumped on Athelfirth and insulted him again . Morover , a few moderators were advanced to the rank of "global moderators" so the forums may be better guarded and all the topics to be deleted .
Also , Athelfirth trolled again on 28 when he talked more about the STAFF itself than about the forum's secret sections . They didn't get to rezist more than 10 minutes before they were deleted . But then , Athelfirth began to bombard the forum . He was constantly making new accounts and changing his IP and reposted the article he had been working on for 2 -3 hours again and again . He even went for the shoutbox on which he discovered a "bug" . He used that "bug" in his advatage and he began deform the main page of the site by simply posting the = simbol a thousand times . After an hour of bombarding he eventualy stopped . A lot of users managed to save Athelfirth's article on their computer for reading .
The results came later when a user came to Athelfirth and cheered with his actions telling him that he is not alone and there are users who left the forum because they had enough of Laurelay's way of making "order" .
Crisis Period
There were rumors that Laurelay even wants to ban Iusty_X , who has been an administrator on Manga-anime.ro since 2006 in order to modelate the forum as she wants to . This thing is more likely to happen because she also advandced one of her friends from the forum STAFF xNovember ( also known as Byby ) from the rank of a simple moderator to the one of an administrator . The STAFF is now indeed a corupted one .
Now Athelfirth is staying in the shadows awaiting for a good moment to strike again . With more and more users joining his side , he feels that this time things will work out . His main goal now is either to empty the forum of it's members or to start a massive troll campaign on the forum that will make Laurelay go crazy .
And this is what he shall do until the "main administrator" of Manga-anime.ro decides to do something . But first he must come back from wherever he is .
Other things
Wikinfo
Athelfirth also helps anime_addict in writing articles about the Romanian Anime forums on Wikinfo website because of his strong historical information .
See also
| Anime in Romania | |
| People: | Chibimox | Coyotee | Majin | Ranma | Mangaboy | The Different Mechanist | Alexander | Iusty | CyBeR | Alexander Krieg | Athelfirth |
| Sites: | anime-club.ro | manga-anime.ro | aplustv.ro | animaxtv.ro | anime-mania.ro | animeplus.ro | A Camp |
| TV: | Anime+ | Animax | TVR1 | Antena 1 | Jetix |
| Conventions: | Nijikon 2007 | Nijikon 2008 | Nijikon 2009 | A Camp | Otakon |
| Diseases: | Pettism | Pet chains | Anime Club Borg mentality (cure → Anti-Animax-Abuse) | Spam | Attacks | Conflicts |
