Another Fun Night In the Sonic Community
Posted by voice | Filed under Rant
Here I am, late Sunday night, up to tell you about the excitement that transpired today in the Sonic Community. Ofcourse by mentioning Sonic Community I assume that you’ll immedately imagine a bunch of nerds obsessing over a blue hedgehog thats just a video game character, and for the most part you’d be right. However, the Sonic Community is full of way more than that, oh no no no, the Sonic Community is made up of primarily drama. So why do I tell you this? Well today happened to be the most drama filled day that I have ever seen to date in the Sonic Community, and it happens to revolve around a site that prides itself on being one of the biggest sites in the community, Sonic Retro.
Sonic Retro is not new to any of this drama, having faced it’s fair share since its inception in 2004. Of course there was the big fireworks show over the site ’s message board name being changed from Sonic 2 Beta Message Board, to commemorate the merger of the Sonic 2 Beta Message Board and the Sonic Classic Message Board. And then there was the Glowing Bridge incident, when a few dissatisfied members of the Sonic Retro community decided to fork off and form their own message board. The end result was the shutting down of Glowing Bridge after months of trolling and drama-whoring, as it became to be known as, by Sonic Retro members who felt that Glowing Bridge was not to be taken seriously and that any split off should not happen.
The latest round of mjaor drama happens to revolve around a statement made by the most active member in the Sonic Retro staff, Tweaker. Now, Tweaker is quite an interesting character; first off, hes highly tempormental and will not hesitate to banish anyone who he sees as a potential threat to Sonic Retro. He prides himself on his work on the Sonic Megamix hack series, one of the most popular in the Sonic Community. Hes pretty good with words, so he is quite easily able to talk his way into things or twist events to better his own purposes. His temper on IRC is legendary, enough so that a new Meme was coined to reflect this temper and is known as a Tweaker Tantrum, his tantrums reached a peak when he did a /akill on an entire IRC channel because he didn’t want to deal with the topic at hand. Tweaker pretty much is the head administrator at Sonic Retro. The other playing members as Administrators are Hivebrain and ScarredSun, who was the former administrator of Sonic classic. Both are pretty much only active if something serious enough arises. There was another, LocalH, who was given the Sonic 2 Beta page by Simon Wai, google his name, but LocalH was let go by the other staff due to his inactiveness.
So, now that you’ve been introduced to the head staff at Retro, let us begin. Back when the Glowing Bridge fiasco occured Sonic Retro was hosted on a server run by another major player in the Sonic Community, who would also go on to lead the forming of the Glowing Bridge, Qjimbo. Before Qjimbo had split off with Glowing Bridge, in what is known as the March 25th coupe, he had apparently snagged a SVN snapshot of the source code to the Megamix project, as Megamix does their hacking by manipulating the actual M68K ASM. For the longest time Qjimbo had kept this code to himself, but he eventually ended up sharing the code with another community member named MadEchidna and MadEchidna then had proceeded to give the source code to other people in the community, essentially leaking the code. Things continue downhill from here when MadEchidna eventually shares this bit of information to a known internet troll named Alexis, who then pasted the logs in her IRC chatroom. For one reason or another MadEchidna got extremely angry with this move by Alexis, telling Tweaker about the leaked Megamix beta and letting it be known that it was infact Qjimbo who had initially snagged the code.
Tweaker, obviously angry at this, was quick in banning Qjimbo from Sonic Retro and all was calm until another incident in the day occured. See, Alexis has a goal for her channel, she wants to obtain a user count of 200 users and in an attempt to do so had created video advertisements to be placed on Youtube. Another set of community members are brought into the mix here, a server/hosting administrator named Sonic Kid, and a website operator using his services named SeanieB. Earlier the two had a little spat, mostly because the nature of SeanieB’s site requires the streaming of massive amounts of data, he runs a Sonic music archive site, a lot similar to the RSN Radio site I run. SeanieB was complaining to Sonic Kid because for one reason or another the streaming was happening at a very slow rate. SeanieB claimed it was a problem with Sonic Kid’s server, and Sonic Kid claimed it was a problem with SeanieB’s internet connection, it turned out to be the latter. During this time Sonic Kid had threatened to kick SeanieB off of his services, and who could blame him? For someone to do very minimalistic troubleshooting and in the end come up to say its a problem on your end when it clearly isn’t? I wasn’t there for this but I’m told SeanieB had a very asshole-ish attitude about the ordeal.
Fast forward to today, SeanieB and Sonic Kid happen to be in Alexis’s channel as these videos are revealed. SeanieB procided to relay the link for the video in Sonic Retro’s channel, where Sonic Kid also happened to be, saying that all the users of Alexis’s channel should drink some bleach, this obviously pissed Sonic Kid off for some reason, probably taking it as an attack against him as well. When confronted with this Seanie had denied he ever said such a thing, to which Sonic Kid posted logs of it, Seanie remained quiet, I’m guessing not wanting to comment anymore on the matter. Sonic Kid decided he had had enough of SeanieB’s anticts and decided to delete Seanie’s account without prior notification, in the process deleteing the core of SeanieB’s website. Words were said, mainly by Sonic Kid, announcing the deletion of Seanie’s account and site after the fact, leaving SeanieB shocked, apparently.
SeanieB continued to pour his heart and soul in Sonic Retro’s IRC channel about how he cannot believe that Sonic Kid just completely wiped out all of his work in a few minutes. I’m not sure if this is really what tipped Tweaker over into doing what he did, or if he was still fuming over what Qjimbo had done, but a snipplet of a log was released:
<Tweaker> I GIVE UP
<Tweaker> FUCKING DONE
<Tweaker> I’m sending all of you this database full of passwords
<Tweaker> we’re going to tear through accounts and fuck shit up
It’s known now that this was said in a private staff-only channel for Sonic Retro, but as the snipplet shows, Tweaker had apparently had enough and was going to send someone a list of passwords for malicious purposes. A flury of “Oh shits” was made and numerous people throughout the evening had tried to warn Retro’s members of this threat made by the head Admin. All attempts to were met with topic deletion and banning from both the IRC and the message boards. These actions helped to fuel the fears that this threat was legit, that Tweaker really was going to release all the passwords for all of the members on Sonic Retro.
Damage control kicked in pretty much when the other administrators where notified of Tweaker’s statement, however it wasn’t the kind of response you’d really expect. Those who mentioned it were told that the log came from a private chat, and that Tweaker was venting, and that they were sure Tweaker would not go through with it. Hivebrain responded saying those banned deserved to be banned for leaking private channel logs as well as Qjimbo’s leakage of the Megamix source, ScarredSun responded pretty much the same. Much bickering ensued and eventually the Retro staff started to say that Tweaker was only joking, and that he rants like this all of the time when he is pissed off. Now, I don’t know about you but I don’t like it when an admin makes a statement to the effect of his going to release my password so that others may screw around with my account, and I’m sure you all don’t either, even if it was a joke, however given the context of the log snipplet, its really quite hard to see the joking nature of his statement.
Many others have tried to find excuses for Tweaker’s behavior, and most of them stem around the excuse that Tweaker, as an admin of one of the largest sonic communites out there, is constantly under a lot of stress, and that from time to time he snaps. However, how many of you have snapped due to high stress and weren’t given a free pass because of what you do? I mean, when I get so pissed off I’m about to do something insanely stupid like what Tweaker did I step away from the computer and listen to my MP3 player for a bit, very calming. Now, why am I telling all of this, because I am one of those that tried to warn members and was immediately banned from Sonic Retro. I had made a topic in their Site Affairs forum, simply posted the log snipplets, theres another which I will tag at the end, and asking a simple question: what the fuck is going on? Tweaker could have answered the question to reassure everyone that he was not going to release anyones information, but he opted to delete the topic outright, going past the normal proceedure of trashing the topic, however trashing a topic still leaves it visible.
The last I check, about an hour ago, I am still banned from Sonic Retro, and I can safely assume that Tweaker is still the administrator of the boards. I think the fact that the rest of the staff worked so dilligently to protect Tweaker, and his actions, is worrying to say the least. Most admins at a multi-admined site who did what Tweaker has done would have had their admin powers revoked, or in some cases even banned from the site itself, but Tweaker remains where he was at the beginning of the day. Do you think this is fair? I don’t, and I’m not alone in this, but everyone else seems too complacent to really say anything else about it. So thats what a typical fun night in the Sonic Community looks like. If you didn’t like what you read, I suggest you follow the wise advice from the Sonic Retro staff and not join to begin with, and quite honestly I think you’d be better off avoiding the Sonic Community as a whole. We tend to be quite a bitter lot who have nothing else to do but piss and moan about anything and everybody, this blog post for example. I’m trying to run my site without the politics and drama that 99% of the rest of the Sonic Communities have, but lets face it, in the Sonic Community drama comes knocking at your door weither you want it to or not.
SNIPPLETS:
<Tweaker> I GIVE UP
<Tweaker> FUCKING DONE
<Tweaker> I’m sending all of you this database full of passwords
<Tweaker> we’re going to tear through accounts and fuck shit up
<Tweaker> by the way Upth
<Tweaker> tell MK he’s a backstabbing piece of shit
<Upth> relayed
<Upth> though to be fair
<Upth> I really don’t condone the giving out of passwords… with the sole exception of fucking qjimbo because goddamn he’d do it to you
<jman2050> I haven’t seen Tweaker like this in a while
<jman2050> And I couldn’t fathom a guess as to how Stealth would respond even if I tired
<Tweaker> You know what, I don’t even give a fuck
<Tweaker> he SHOULD NOT BE GIVING OUT STAFF LOGS
<Tweaker> I’m SICK OF THIS
<Tweaker> I’m abotu to shut down Retro
<Tweaker> and replace it with a pager full of everyone’s personal info
<Tweaker> let them fuck each othert up
Sonic Retro – Keeping it classy since 2004!
EDIT: I felt this picture appropriately sums up everything that happened lastnight.
February 16th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
bro story cool
February 17th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Every single thing that I ever said about Tweaker is now revealed true.
But, meh, nobody ever listens to me anyway.
Glowing Bridge II needs to be made. Fast. Else the scene will go down the next few days.
Mark my words, it will happen.
February 17th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
And, might I add,
Tweaaaakeeeer, Tweaaaaaaker, Twiiiiiiikeeer, destroyed mah community
February 17th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
wow…just…wow.
I do want to add that the information about SeanieB and SonicKid’s exchange is inaccurate however.
February 17th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Chaos_Hedgie, you weren’t even in the Skype chat I’m talking about, if you’re referring to the #retro aspect: http://www.randomsonicnet.org/archives/logs/retro.tar
Look for the Feb 15th dates.
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