LogFAQs > #980133042

Heineken14 posted...

Yeah, weird how people purposely went to the board on a regular basis but also wanted it shut down.

Why anyone would want another board shut down for the non-obvious reasons is weird enough as is.

Not really. They're pissed because their type of toxic far right bilge is banned from Gamefaqs, rather than the mods cracking down on any users who poo-pooed their transphobia, xenophobia, etc. You have to understand that a lot of these people are completely blind to just how toxic and extreme their views are-- and they view anything to the left of Ronald Reagan as toxic/Fascist/Marxist/whatever "regressive leftism/wokeism/SJWs/etc." They are likewise bitter that it is no longer socially acceptable to make sexist, LGBTQIA+-phobic, or racist jokes, anymore.

These guys are actually surprisingly similar to the KOS crew of the 00's. Those individuals were banned for multiple very severe violations of the ToU, and they nursed hatred against the site as well. Constantly attempting to hit the site with DNS's, creating user names with censor bypasses (their favorite was the N word, because of course it was) and posting in 1+ year old topics with 300-400 posts in order to get the topic nuked (this was back when modding a post did not delete the timestamp and username that posted it) I remember back when the banned user list existed. Some of these people would make up to 5 to 10 accounts per week (BigRedMachine was by far the biggest offender. After several years he managed to racked up more than 800 banned accounts. The next guy behind him had only wracked up 400 or 500 banned accounts.)
They sometimes attempted to frame LUE for off-site invasions back before and for the first 2 years after it got shut down. Of course, they also seemed to pick up quickly on any news that LUE was involved in an off-site invasion and gladly joined in (I've heard that they contributed to the defacement of that dead girl's Live Journal)

BTW, when I say "very severe" violations of the TOU, I am not talking about mere offensive posting. I'm talking about the aforementioned offensive usernames, abusive language of a racist and sexual nature towards the admin and his wife, illegal activities (mainly spamming ROMs/cracks) and hacking/exploits of the site. Those last two are such severe violations that blatant attempts resulted in an instant KOS.