Oops, I found a way to access some staff threads that doesn't involve browsing the forums. Hum.

Let's see...

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I'll own up to my immaturity on the issue. I'm only human and I do my best. But when it comes to Xkeeper, I'm not going to be able to handle the situation well. He makes me VERY VERY angry, much more so than any user in the history of this site (even nineko).

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Maybe if you guys would stop being so shitty, you wouldn't get so mad?


Also:

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I went ahead and changed his email from xkeeper@gmail.com to NONE@NONE.NET. Please don't make this public knowledge, I'd like to see if he comes back whining about the same thing.

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Oops. Sorry!

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Originally posted by DarkKobold (though for the purposes of this thread we can call him Shithead)

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Yes, it took 6 consecutive months of voting "no" on every single submission on the workbench, without a single constructive post, for me to ban Rick, unlike the one time for Xcrapper. He straight up stopped posting, and it was to the point where one of our Japanese users told us the japanese had named him something like "mystery No vote man."

Also, how does 1 No vote on every submission prove anything? It doesn't turn the tide on any submission. A single No vote does very little on its own. Multiple No votes do. So, they proved nothing, other than they are assholes.

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I've read this post about 4 times so far and I still can't figure out what inane troll logic he's using to try to justify bans. A no vote accomplishes nothing*, but it obviously does otherwise it wouldn't be bannable because it doesn't do anything. Yet at the same time more than one no vote (which you can't do on a single submission) somehow has an effect.



*This is true unironically; the submissions are judged exclusively by staff, votes don't matter. Voting should really just be removed.

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I don't believe we should be making light of bans.

I am sending Kumquat this message.

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Hi Kumquat,

While we can't specifically prevent XKeeper from participating, I will not give any credence to his participation while his ban persists. He is a banned user, and therefore not allowed to participate in any site activity.

However, that said, he knows quite well why he is banned. Additionally, unlike other troublesome users, he is not perma-banned. If he would grow up, sincerely apologize for his bullying behavior towards adelikat, he would most likely be unbanned. I doubt this will happen, he appears far too obstinate and prideful to apologize; however, I would like to be surprised. Last time I conversed with him, he appeared to have understood our position.

If you are curious yourself why he is banned, during his tenure here, he continually harped on the work done by site administrators, while providing nothing of positive value. Specifically, but not limited to, his derision towards adelikat's need for funding while providing no support, his consistent mocking of fceux bugs while, as a competent coder, providing no help to the source code maintained by volunteers, and his shitting on the workbench to prove some unnecessary point. This consistent, negative, and abusive attitude had gone too far.

Thank you for your understanding, I would like to see XKeeper return to the community as a positive force.

DarkKobold

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I would like to see XKeeper return to the community as a positive force.

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I would like to see XKeeper return to the community as a positive force.

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Someone mentioned the nineko-vs-noob irdoh stuff. Some searching later and here we go:

Originally posted by DK

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This is (was) hilarious:

http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11080

Kuwaga changed his post - apparently, nineko posted something to the effect of "I am a German", to which Kuwaga pointed out that a native speaker wouldn't make such grammatical errors.

At some point, I'll post all my info that shows that Noob Irdoh is nineko.

The main reason Noob Irdoh isn't banned is because he is much easier to track and prevent from having any power on the site if we know his account. If we ban him, he will simply create another account until we block spammer/proxy IP addresses (possible, but a lengthy procedure).

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Originally posted by DK

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Ah, and where do I find the topic where he states he speaks German? In a nineko submission.

http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=203062#203062

Note that Noob's English is bad before nineko is banned. His English is even bad in his profile "Steal to thief to give to poor."

More bad English:

http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=209907#209907
http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=213906&highlight=#213906

Oh, and here he mentions nineko!

http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=218502&highlight=#218502

And here Noob defends nineko!

http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=221127&highlight=#221127

'To be fair to nineko....'

BUT WAIT! His English magically improves from incoherent to near perfect, in the span of 6 months.... I wish I could learn a language that fast!

http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=232715&highlight=#232715

And here, more amazing English skills! But wait... something is off about this post - over dramatizing a minor issue? Could it be? Noob Irdoh is nineko??
http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=233576&highlight=#233576

Stay tuned for the next exciting episode!

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Originally posted by Brandon

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Who are these people and why should they be banned? Didn't Noob Irdoh do a massive number of encodes for Unmirrored Movies?

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Originally posted by DK again

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nineko (now Noob Irdoh, sorry for the spoiler) has a LOOOOONG history of basically gaining power at websites, and then at some point he uses that power to disrupt the site, to the best of his ability. (Thanks go to Upthorn, for warning us about him.)

"..he had a conflict with the administration over the use of certain cart scans of his on the wiki, which culminated in him leaking a private beta of Sonic Megamix, resulting in him getting banned from the forum again, and g-lined from the irc..." Source

"...Nineko asked richter to be reinstated as a judge, mainly because of his previous knowledge of this job. However, richter appointed someone else instead, and also later nominations weren't for Nineko. As a means of revenge, he changed almost every screenshot in the games database to an animated .gif file or to a photo of trampling*, as well as renaming games and screwing up system references..." Source
*trampling is the act of being stepped on for sexual gratification.

So, three things to take away from this:
#1. nineko loves to cause massive damage for revenge.
#2. Never give nineko a second chance.
#3. Sonicretro never, ever learns its lesson.

So, we knew not to give nineko ANY power at the site... however, he still managed to cause disruption.
list of nineko's submissions
Lets look at this list:
Snow Brothers: Suboptimal, crappy play.
Daedalian Opus: Long cut scenes, bad game choice.
Burger Time Deluxe: Suboptimal, crappy play, possibly bad game choice.
Sonic Competition: Suboptimal, crappy play.
Chuck Rock: Suboptimal, and horrible game choice AND incompatible with the site.*
OverTop: INTENTIONALLY chose a suboptimal vehicle. (also, probably a bad game choice)
Tetris (B mode): Suboptimal, crappy play, copped an attitude until it was proven, beaten by 30%!
*Note that he tried to hold the site hostage until his demands were met.

And then, finally:
Puzzle de Pon: Good game choice, well played...

So, it is on its way to getting accepted and published. nineko couldn't continue his parade of pretending that TASvideos was out to get him, if he had a published movie. Thus, he created drama over a user voting yes on his movie, canceled his submission and pretended to lock himself out of his account. Now, he clearly didn't lock himself out, because he had only been forum banned by adelikat at that point (this was during the transition period, and site bans hadn't yet been figured out.). Thus, he used that power to uncancel his submission. He was finally site banned, and people from sonicretro came to the IRC channel at his behest to argue that the movie was unfairly judged. See adelikat's final post in that thread as to why the movie remains canceled. (as a side note, his Chuck Rock, OverTop, and PDP submission threads are all interesting reads.)


(Additionally, since Noob Irdoh is his account, and voted 'Yes' on OverTop, I think he was angry that no one had taken the initiative to determine that he had been cheating on his submissions, creating multiple accounts, etc.)

Oh, and on PDP - From my IRC log on 5/11/2010

[19:28] TASVideoAgent> New reply by Noob Irdoh (Old: #2292: nineko's Arcade Puzzle De Pon! R! in 08:47.25): http://tasvideos.org/forum/p/234230#234230 [a:1]
[19:33] TASVideoAgent> Post DELETED by Noob Irdoh (Old: #2292: nineko's Arcade Puzzle De Pon! R! in 08:47.25): http://tasvideos.org/forum/p/234230#234230



What that post contained, no one knows. However, many people have stated that nineko was desperate to get that movie published. This is evidence of nineko attempting that as Noob Irdoh. As an aside, I'm not sure how he had done that, since adelikat had locked that thread for ages.

... Also, Noob Irdoh stopped doing encodes because we found out he was nineko. We refused to publish any movies he created.

Wow, that is a wall of text, but such an interesting and bizarre character. I couldn't write a fictional story this crazy.

Is anyone interested in me continuing this?

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Originally posted by adelikat

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If you mean continuing to document why nineko = noob then yes. I think it is good to have such documentation in one convenient place.

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Originally posted by moozoh

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Originally posted by DK

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... Also, Noob Irdoh stopped doing encodes because we found out he was nineko.

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How did he find out? Making him aware of our finding kind of runs against the earlier stated goal of keeping him in check by taking away the incentive of creating additional accounts.

Also, am I correct that Staff forum threads are now shown in "view posts since last visit"? Because that's the main link I'm using to access the forums aside from topic subscriptions, and miss a lot of staff threads like this one as a result.

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Originally posted by sgrunt

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(after deleting one of his posts that contained a higher-optimized version of a movie snapshot)
I split this off because the passive-aggressive nature of these posts is annoying me. It's clear all he's doing is running extra trials of the screenshot compression tools, besides which the screenshot which is currently there is five bytes smaller than the one he provided.

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I love the irony in this. They staff a site that focuses entirely on optimization and spending extra time to make that one frame faster, and yet someone running a few more trials to crush a PNG down more is boo-hoo worthy.

Originally posted by DK

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Originally posted by moozoh above

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Its my fault. I did not want a 'noob irdoh' splash screen on one of my TASes. There is something about how he is abusing the system (i.e. our lack of ability to ban proxies) to access the site, that gets under my skin, albeit, more than it should.

So, I told him point blank I did not want him encoding my run, and why. He created a thread, claiming his innocence. It was before I had access to the staff forums, so I simply deleted it.

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Originally posted by fvsvsglf

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(after deleting another post of noob's)
And he did it again, this time saving a mere 11 bytes! (linked because it's a 1366x768 image)

His post is right above mine (was in the most recent Baby Moses submission).

(before you ask: yes, this kind of behaviour annoys me as well)

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Originally posted by DK yet again

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The new anti-spam filter was to stop banned users from accessing the forums via proxies. However, it took less than a day for this banned user to circumvent the proxy filter.

Yeah, I'm pretty angry about it. I'd like to figure out what site he is using for his proxies, so I can preemptively ban all of them.

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Protip, asshat: Your bans aren't IP bans, they just set a cookie. Deleting the cookie allows access again.

Originally posted by FractalFusion

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Dude.

Stop killing yourself over one person.

* We know who Noob Irdoh is, and we won't give him power.
* Not surprisingly, Noob Irdoh's posts have been self-serving, just like any other person who craves a position of power. Thus he is not helping his cause by posting. Note that his posts themselves are not harmful to others.
* Noob Irdoh knows that you are killing yourself over him, and that feeds his addiction to remain on the site to troll you.
* There are many others on the site whose posting behavior genuinely causes harm to the TASVideos community. Behavior includes, but is not limited to, starting arguments and persisting in them. Often in conjunction with insults and flame wars, and sometimes are waged on topics that are extremely trivial or have no place on this site.

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Originally posted by DK

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You know what, you're right. I'm probably just encouraging him to post more, and participate more in the site. I'm sorry if my actions are causing distress to the site.

I pride myself on being able to sniff out these troll accounts, and take action to keep them off the board. The fact that he is able to continue posting, and we are nearly powerless to stop him, just kills me. On top of that, he continues to lie to us, and he has other members of the website (i.e. Flygon), lying for him. It really shouldn't bother me this much.

Anyway, I'd like to hear about other users you think are causing too much disruption, and I'm curious why you haven't brought them up before.

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Originally posted by mmbossman

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IMHO, you're pretty much into captain Ahab territory right now. He's not being disruptive, he's not creating new accounts, you know who he is and he knows you know who he is. That's enough in my mind. If he becomes nineko part 2, ban him, and until then, just let the sleeping dog lie and pour your energy into something more productive and worthwhile.

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Quoting these posts manually is hard. I should really just post the raw sql but

Originally posted by adelikat

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Here's some nice evidence for the noob irdoh = nineko proof


The same hashed password was used by both nineko and Goemon (a troll account we had to ban)

Both Goemon and Noob Irdoh have used this ip address: 193.171.32.6

sgrunt edit: redacted the password hash.

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Haha they actually posted the raw password too, way to go.


Oh this is gold:

Originally posted by Noob

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That is the same error I got when I ended up to double post by mistake (I already deleted my second post though so there's no evidence of it).
I even tried to post here to report about it, but apparently there was still some problem since my post didn't get through (it appeared on the index, but it didn't work). I assume the situation is fine now. Glad that you fixed the problem.

A double post by me is notable because there is a script that automatically bans every IP address I use, so a double post by me is technically impossible, the DB must have been having some serious problem if even that script didn't manage to run, allowing me to post from the same IP twice.

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Wow, the stealth-bullshit that was mentioned here is true indeed. There's douchey, and then there's this. Good job tasvideos guys, I didn't think you could sink that low. Way to prove me wrong.

Originally posted by DK

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He's finally being vocal about this. I've requested that he be banned. We will find the next accounts he creates. I'd prefer he not be able to become a known member of the community.

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What an asshole.

Originally posted by Truncated

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In which context was Noob Irdoh/Nineko's post written? At first it seems like he is posting about an error, and then about an auto-ban script. Do we really have such a script?

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Originally posted by DK

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Yes, the idea was that he would run out of proxies to use. Apparently, there is an unlimited supply of proxy addresses on the web. We were hoping this would be the final nail in the coffin, to make him go away. Banning doesn't work, filters don't work.... He is like a herpes infection.

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You are the herpes, DK. You ruin everything. Just thought you should know

And the cherry on the shit sundae that is tasvideos:

Originally posted by Truncated

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proxy.org lists 2700 ones. I guess it will be some time before he runs out of those.

I'm guessing he probably has one or more new lurker accounts here already. It's pretty hard/impossible to get rid of a user you don't want around. We can only hope he gets tired of it after a while... or we can go to his house and beat him up.

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Violence is the punchline.



Ugh. That was a pain in the ass to copy over, next time I'll just autoformat this shit or something.

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