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Sorry, but I didn't copy your move, not consciously at least... it just stood out to me, and if we want to have a discussion, we need a better topic than why everybody likes blue, right?

No, there's no particular reason why I like orange, I like it because I like it

Changing the subject since we really hit a brick wall in this one (xD), I've been digging into some AG history.
And this stands out.
Now, aside from the whole "things were fun back then" thing, I see Chryos and Ha were in Ol' Voidy's hit list

Chryos, why on earth would you vote the most dangerous mod just because everyone else did?

Well, that's something that I've completely forgotten about. Thanks for the reminder that I once voted during that thing.

Anyway, I was just following the herd back then. Didn't really think much about the consequences of my actions back then.

what consequences? You got a merit for that

Unless if you mean we are going to vote you off for your voting behavior 5 years ago, which I want to hope is not the case I kinda brought the subject up just to discuss something semi-relevant

I was not here at that time. What really happened?

Heh, I had totally forgotten about this, too. Wasn't I a brash little thing back then... I don't remember the details, though.

I was not here at that time. What really happened?

Well, In this thread, Gantic (which should have made everyone suspicious, but apparently, it didn't ) announced that they are going to dismiss ONE moderator. The Team consisted of Devoidless, Asherlee, Strop, Zophia, NoNameC68 and some others at the time. They justified that decision with AG v.3 that was a work in progress back then, because "with the new system, users will be pretty much able to moderate things themselves". Bear in mind, the thread was created by Gantic (a mod at the time) on March 25 2011, urging the community to vote to actually Fire a Moderator (Mods cannot fired but that's the term used ). Voting would take place until the end of the month (another hint).

Pretty much, as you can see, a massive percentage of users voted for Devoidless, until cormyn allegedly quit AG because of his disagreements with the rest of the team. Cormyn announced that "he resigned" and even constructed an elaborate story about how he gave the mods an emergency cell phone number of his to contact him during the holidays in case something goes wrong with the site. He continued narrating how one of the mods played a prank on him by forcefully subscribing that number to some paid ad services and how he was being woken up at nights by late night phone ads. He stated he argued with the rest of the team, they told him he had issues and eventually, as a final act of rage, he turned EVERY mod into an admin!

Devoidless was the first to start using this newfound opportunity by intimidating the users who voted for him and "threatening to purge them" xD Some could tell the joke, others got scared for a while, then realized it is far too absurd, and some others were genuinely scared as evidenced by the users' reactions in the thread In the meantime, John and some other user who *might* have been an admin at the time (or someone masquerading as one), caffeine101 (who is a mystery to everyone who wasn't there at the time. No honorable knight, not an admin either but he seems like a fake account used by one of the team) assured the community that the issue was being dealt with, that they were keeping an eye on the mods so that they won't abuse their powers, that cormyn was the one who had problems, not the rest of the team (John in particular accused him of hoarding Dr. Pepper in his office and shooting a nerf gun at one of John's monitors while the latter was working xD While the Dr Pepper scenario has been dismissed as a hoax, the nerf gun shooting is claimed to be actually true by the admins.)

Of course mods did not have real admin powers, it was all for appearances but with a large enough user base at the time, many were fooled by the hoax xD Even some of the rational ones, like GhostOfMatrix, who at first thought it was a joke, later feared the possibility that it may be true

You can read more about it in the threads I've linked. These are the most relevant threads I could find. I could not stop laughing at some users' reactions xD

@SirLegendary

Voting to kick: Chryos

Reason: for voting Devoidless in 2011

Signed Up:

1. @/Loop_Stratos
2. @Doombreed
3. @/MattEmAngel
4. @HahiHa
5. @Chryosten
6. @armorplayergc
7. @akshobhya
8. @/red303
9. @shafaet
10. @/BalkanRenegades

Last few hours remaining to vote!

what consequences? You got a merit for that

Gantic (which should have made everyone suspicious, but apparently, it didn't)

I should mention that I don't think anyone took that seriously. After all, who even lets the community vote for which mod to fire?

@SirLegendary

Voting: armorplayergc
Reason: for doing exactly what I hoped to avoid. People Change. AP on the contrary only seems to show up to vote.

Last few hours remaining to vote!

@SirLegendary

Voting: HahiHa
Reason: Thanks to Doom, it has been revealed that HahiHa has conspired with several mods/admins and users to get rid of Devoidless along with several other mods in his long term plan to get mod position and furthermore get admin position. This way, he can eventually overthrow Dan before backstabbing everyone else into becoming the new leader of AG. Voting him out is the only way he can be stopped.

Oh noes! My evil plan has been revealed!