Toady
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Recently one of the posters I enjoy reading was banned. He has been banned before and came back several times, but even so I’m pretty perturbed as his posts were a small source of joy for me. He didn’t need to be banned and this is why it I’m writing this game guide. I don’t care if you’re new to these forums or a veteran; I’m going to show you how the game of power is played. You might call it powergaming the forums. That way if you turn out to be a good poster that reliably delivers good posts, or is capable of great posting streaks, you won’t get your butt ding dong bannu’d!
Let’s examine where he went wrong; this is the post that got Iren banned this time:
Other users have in the drama threads of the past couple of days made similar blunders, some engaging in “rules lawyering” and other such nonsense. The rules do not matter at all, in any context, and arguing with mods if someone broke them or not means you’re a mouth breather. Several moderators have gotten people fired from their jobs through doxxing[1] and DU himself brags about having done so[2] and threatens with doing it himself often. Users favored by the administration are untouchable while those they dislike will get banned without any justification “as a joke” or with some such post-hoc rationalisation if they are pressed about it.
The Codex has a reputation for being a dungeon for high level trolls and although I can’t level scale it for you, my glorious student, I can give you some starting XP for this campaign so you don’t end up like Iren. You can call me sensei-chan now.
So what are the effective strategies to get what you want? What do you do not to get shot in the head after begging the big DU for the eternal drama to stop? Theodora is a very good case study of what to do if you want to end up on top. Perhaps there is nobody greater suited to the Anarcho-Tyranny in vogue at present, equally on the world stage as it is in smaller arenas like private forums, than the anarchist, and moreover none as hungry for powah. Pls note that this post is neither approving nor disapproving of this particular poster nor this method, I’m simply stating what works and how for your benefit!
Pose as a Woman
Whether you actually are one does not matter one little bit, in smaller hobbyist male dominated circles there is an abundance of lonely easily manipulated men. Some will be very pitted against you, but even this can be used to great benefit and can be equally valuable to you as those who will jump into muck for you so you can step on dry filth instead of wet. Moderators and admins are weaker than anyone else to this, as they are some of the ugliest, most miserable and loneliest people on the planet. Technology has also made it easier than ever for biological men to pose as women online, so everyone can take advantage of this, so you can shut the fuck up about women being the problem there in the back, class.
This first step will make it very unlikely that you are ever banned no matter what stunt you pull, but you shouldn’t tempt fate just in case. There are certain important steps to take next that will synergize with this one. I’ll give you a non-woman specific build below too, don’t you worry.
Establish Operational Security
Get your slate as clean as possible first and foremost; take advantage of mentally ill people that tend to populate sites like Kiwifarms to redact your previous nefarious acts.[3] Then create a base of operations outside the purview of the forum you seek to dominate.[4] This is important as there will be no logs or traces for the admin and mods to check on their own site of what you get up to there. The external place is where you organize people you recruit and hold more frank conversations; get all your collected simps into this area. The forum is solely for shitposting and baiting.
Whisper in the Nerd-King’s Ear
The most important part of the forum to capture is the staff, it’s nice if you have regular posters that can show their undying support for you and upvote your every posts but they are entirely disposable meatpuppets as far as you are concerned. Early on you want to establish a direct line of communication to the moderation. Posing as a woman and hamming it up (if you’re just a normal woman user you could post for years unnoticed) means that you will without a doubt attract a lot of attention in any male dominated space. Focus on the bad attention and instead of reporting or ignoring people send PM’s to staffers about them, see who is on your side the most and is willing to go to the furthest lengths for you. Shittest them and see what you can get away with.[5]
The other users will pick up on this relationship and, being a rather clueless bunch, turn on the moderation without considering that they don’t have any real power to change anything without their own insider and allies in the staff.
This can be taken further with forgeries or out of context off-site screenshots[6] with which you can push them to take even further action than what they could confirm would let them, particularly effective if done in an organised group. It’s the best if you begin with targeting mental wrecks and drug addicts, who could provide you with cream of the crop cringe easily confirmed by the staff to establish a sense of trust before you move on to just making things up. Whatever you do never ignore the unhinged drunkard that is on his fifth bottle of vodka and will say anything to anyone that gives him attention or insults him. You just struck gold.
Burn It to the Ground
Once you have gathered enough supporters among the staff and a contingent among the regular users the forum is your oyster. Unlike Iren’s atomized ineffective whining to someone that doesn't like him very much your word is law and what you say now goes. If you want someone gone they will be gone and you won’t even need to get your own hands dirty. If you want to break a rule there will be no repercussions because there are no rules, not for you anyway. If you want to get someone’s private information out there you can, get them fired from their job, talk some losers into killing themselves, it’s all within your power.
With the above build you want to target liberal leftists for recruitment since they’re statistically likely to become your loyal pawns for a bunch of reasons. Anime posters, right-wingers, apolitical posters and homosexuals are bad targets and if you can you should try to get them banned because they might pose a threat to your growing power if they can capture some of the staff for themselves, like how the turtle boys got Twiglard on their side. Making sure that won't ever happen you have won the game. Now you either destroy the forum or turn it into something you find so boring that you have to move on to the next place.
Secret Buddha Grass Eater Strat
Alternatively, if you’re just here to post about video games and have chill discussions then the following strategy and build is remarkably effective, it involves stepping around all power-dynamics and structures to get to the good part:
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Let’s examine where he went wrong; this is the post that got Iren banned this time:
He’s a beggar here even if he’s not likely to expect a concession from the admin. There was never a chance for him to get what he wanted, and instead got the opposite result from his desired outcome. Total baka mode.
Other users have in the drama threads of the past couple of days made similar blunders, some engaging in “rules lawyering” and other such nonsense. The rules do not matter at all, in any context, and arguing with mods if someone broke them or not means you’re a mouth breather. Several moderators have gotten people fired from their jobs through doxxing[1] and DU himself brags about having done so[2] and threatens with doing it himself often. Users favored by the administration are untouchable while those they dislike will get banned without any justification “as a joke” or with some such post-hoc rationalisation if they are pressed about it.
The Codex has a reputation for being a dungeon for high level trolls and although I can’t level scale it for you, my glorious student, I can give you some starting XP for this campaign so you don’t end up like Iren. You can call me sensei-chan now.
So what are the effective strategies to get what you want? What do you do not to get shot in the head after begging the big DU for the eternal drama to stop? Theodora is a very good case study of what to do if you want to end up on top. Perhaps there is nobody greater suited to the Anarcho-Tyranny in vogue at present, equally on the world stage as it is in smaller arenas like private forums, than the anarchist, and moreover none as hungry for powah. Pls note that this post is neither approving nor disapproving of this particular poster nor this method, I’m simply stating what works and how for your benefit!
Pose as a Woman
Whether you actually are one does not matter one little bit, in smaller hobbyist male dominated circles there is an abundance of lonely easily manipulated men. Some will be very pitted against you, but even this can be used to great benefit and can be equally valuable to you as those who will jump into muck for you so you can step on dry filth instead of wet. Moderators and admins are weaker than anyone else to this, as they are some of the ugliest, most miserable and loneliest people on the planet. Technology has also made it easier than ever for biological men to pose as women online, so everyone can take advantage of this, so you can shut the fuck up about women being the problem there in the back, class.
This first step will make it very unlikely that you are ever banned no matter what stunt you pull, but you shouldn’t tempt fate just in case. There are certain important steps to take next that will synergize with this one. I’ll give you a non-woman specific build below too, don’t you worry.
Establish Operational Security
Get your slate as clean as possible first and foremost; take advantage of mentally ill people that tend to populate sites like Kiwifarms to redact your previous nefarious acts.[3] Then create a base of operations outside the purview of the forum you seek to dominate.[4] This is important as there will be no logs or traces for the admin and mods to check on their own site of what you get up to there. The external place is where you organize people you recruit and hold more frank conversations; get all your collected simps into this area. The forum is solely for shitposting and baiting.
Whisper in the Nerd-King’s Ear
The most important part of the forum to capture is the staff, it’s nice if you have regular posters that can show their undying support for you and upvote your every posts but they are entirely disposable meatpuppets as far as you are concerned. Early on you want to establish a direct line of communication to the moderation. Posing as a woman and hamming it up (if you’re just a normal woman user you could post for years unnoticed) means that you will without a doubt attract a lot of attention in any male dominated space. Focus on the bad attention and instead of reporting or ignoring people send PM’s to staffers about them, see who is on your side the most and is willing to go to the furthest lengths for you. Shittest them and see what you can get away with.[5]
The other users will pick up on this relationship and, being a rather clueless bunch, turn on the moderation without considering that they don’t have any real power to change anything without their own insider and allies in the staff.
This can be taken further with forgeries or out of context off-site screenshots[6] with which you can push them to take even further action than what they could confirm would let them, particularly effective if done in an organised group. It’s the best if you begin with targeting mental wrecks and drug addicts, who could provide you with cream of the crop cringe easily confirmed by the staff to establish a sense of trust before you move on to just making things up. Whatever you do never ignore the unhinged drunkard that is on his fifth bottle of vodka and will say anything to anyone that gives him attention or insults him. You just struck gold.
Burn It to the Ground
Once you have gathered enough supporters among the staff and a contingent among the regular users the forum is your oyster. Unlike Iren’s atomized ineffective whining to someone that doesn't like him very much your word is law and what you say now goes. If you want someone gone they will be gone and you won’t even need to get your own hands dirty. If you want to break a rule there will be no repercussions because there are no rules, not for you anyway. If you want to get someone’s private information out there you can, get them fired from their job, talk some losers into killing themselves, it’s all within your power.
With the above build you want to target liberal leftists for recruitment since they’re statistically likely to become your loyal pawns for a bunch of reasons. Anime posters, right-wingers, apolitical posters and homosexuals are bad targets and if you can you should try to get them banned because they might pose a threat to your growing power if they can capture some of the staff for themselves, like how the turtle boys got Twiglard on their side. Making sure that won't ever happen you have won the game. Now you either destroy the forum or turn it into something you find so boring that you have to move on to the next place.
Secret Buddha Grass Eater Strat
Alternatively, if you’re just here to post about video games and have chill discussions then the following strategy and build is remarkably effective, it involves stepping around all power-dynamics and structures to get to the good part:
- Seed the site with alts, 20 or so should do it, for when you get banned for voting in the wrong poll or for saying something wrong about the marketed game of the month or when DU had his period and made up some bullshit reason to ban random users who only posted about video games. Just quietly reincarnate after every purge and don’t question it, maybe you posted too much or used a forum function in the intended way, or maybe you didn’t post enough.[7] Donmai, just keep trucking.
- Ignore the rules, mods and any attention whores. They are not important, only video games and cool posters matter.
- Never ever donate, whatever you do. They’ll get your private info (confirmed doxxers) and you’ll lose the status when you inevitably get banned for some random reason.
- Go one step above an ad blocker and block any moderator posts.
- Never visit the front page or the news section, avoid site feedback unless you’re there to bully them. RPG, Workshop and the JRPG section, with a sprinkling of General Gaming should be enough for you. Visit the cool sightseeing forums like the Prosperium! Have a coffee talk in GD. Read a book and talk about it in the library! Spend all day on people's profiles having fun!
- Seek out Sukhāvatī sloth sensei-san and train your alchemy skill and level up your love ability, this will help you when you feel sad. ♥
- Just be like the lotus flower with your bottom planted on a shitty forum but being pure and graceful anyway.
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[4] Discord is a favourite but any platform will do.I actually did investigate Theodora extensively when she first joined the Codex because one of my friends was getting drawn into her web, and I instantly categorized Theodora as a Zoe Quinn-type and knew it would likely end very horribly. It wasn't the cleanest of extractions, but it worked.
Then I helped Dora cover a lot of that stuff up at her request. I didn't post all her stuff all over the Codex, that would be crazy.
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[7] https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/ban-theodora-a-poll.146090/page-29#post-8340390
The mods like drama too but if they join in and it doesn't go their way they'll just lock the thread and memory hole the entire thing. Something to keep in mind since you seem like a drama llama.
