i'm gonna start by saying that /digi/ does not really have any secrets. we have been pretty open about everything. the community saw most, but not all, of what happened. the rest of the details could have been pieced together by anyone who was keeping track of the drama off the board, for example reading retarded posts by niggers who were slandering us. this drama is the only real "secret" of /digi/ and i think it's time to just expose the whole thing. if you want to know why we have decided to keep this secret, it's because we didn't want to feed the drama going on. tensions were already high and we didn't really want to make shit worse by turning the volume up to maximum about all of this. but i think it's finally time to let everyone know now, especially now that eden has been doxed and this seems to have finally killed off the drama.
so here's what happened, for anyone on this board who is interested in what went down. i know plenty of you here know something pretty major happened but you didn't get a full answer as to what, just a mostly complete answer with details omitted. as i said, this was done for good reason, but at last i think it's time to "declassify" this.
let me start from the very beginning. i joined the board after someone i know had been talking about posting there regularly and it being a nice board. i like this guy, have known him a long time, etc, but i just had a bad history with 8moe. it all stemmed from when they joined the webring and i felt they were very disingenuous with their "peering agreement" thing. i have since been told that this was an absolute PR nightmare that was handled abysmally and there's basically no excuse for how bad it was handled, but they promised that there was no malicious intent. scoff at me if you want, but i am going to give them the benefit of the doubt on this because i am desperate to act in good faith with people and also because i don't really give a shit anymore, they've long since been booted from the webring. one day, i think in a moment of frustration about the overall lack of communities for me to take part in, i decided to start posting on the board. it went better than expected, but pretty shortly after posting i started remarking on just how awful the site (8moe) was. there were multiple nigger cuckolding boards on the frontpage along with a board dedicated to actually fucking actual real live animals. not drawn or anything. i expressed my displeasure with using a site whose biggest communities were literally catered to blacked cuckolding porn, illegal animal sex, and kike/v/, but i just sort of got over it and stayed for what i felt was an overall decent community despite the site being what it was.
keep in mind: i had no idea the site was this bad. i had looked at the site maybe once or twice in the past, and stopped using it entirely after the webring "peering" debacle and PR fiasco. i was never an 8nigger user. i was more or less exclusively webring.
after a while the board was getting spammed to absolute shit and i didn't really know why but i was asked if i would help and i reluctantly said yes. despite what would end up happening later, i still don't regret this decision because even though i would later get smeared, the smearing was not done by the people i was helping and the community knew better than to believe the smear campaign. eventually i had dejiko fill me in on a lot of 8nigger drama and history because i knew none of it. i know webring stuff dating back to julayworld and vch and shit. i never really considered 8nigger a genuine part of the webring and refused to use it. at this point in time, i had a basic (mis)understanding about someone called "silvia." i wasn't following that well but i was conflating him with someone else who was also a pedo, but i basically knew he was a pedo who didn't like the BO and didn't like digi and ran /b/, and is overwhelmingly believed to be the person spamming /digi/ at this time. i didn't really fucking care and deleted the spam and eventually it stopped, after probably around a few thousand spam posts being deleted. for some reason the site administrators would ban tor on the board and then unban tor or something so the spam would start and stop and start and stop repeatedly. i never bothered to ask why they were doing that. it doesn't really matter.
eventually i would end up getting in an argument with someone called zonz. he has since apologized to me for starting a dumb argument with me. i tried to avoid the argument for a few posts but eventually just sperged out on him and then relentlessly held a grudge against him. he had mentioned on the board that he was still in high school. i reported him for being underage. TWICE. the globals had also banned him before i think once that i had seen for being underage. it was a re-ban, he was apparently ban evading. he had been banned before i even started using /digi/ apparently. anyway, me reporting him twice to the globals did absolutely nothing. one was dismissed by parias. the other was dismissed by acid himself. i gave up on trying to get petty revenge on him. i sobered up and stopped caring about some stupid internet argument and realized it was just petty childish shit. zonz would later apologize.
we had multiple people come to the board to shit it up. i just stopped dealing with it and started issuing out bans. i didn't know these people, i didn't do 8nigger politics, i didn't care. quit fucking with the board. it was blowing my mind how a small and rather friendly community was getting constantly fucked with this hard. well, word ended up coming down to me that i had banned a few notable people, including a global and a /v/ moderator. i think there were even more, i think there may have been two globals i banned for breaking board rules, but it is hard to remember.
the /v/ moderator was "gourmet" who has now been identified as eden. he came to the board screeching in an autistic shit-fit about cuckchan and how we need to go back or whatever because i didn't like that shit-ass VN katawa shoujo. i pointed out to him the irony of screeching about cuckchan while he is defending a VN literally made by cuckchanners. he kept going into an unprompted autistic tard rage so i banned him. he evaded numerous times and then complained to the BO about getting banned, to which the BO basically told him to fuck off for not respecting the rules of his board despite being a moderator of another large board on the site.
another guy i banned was a global. he came to the board to, i shit you not, shill blacked cuckolding porn. that was vampyr if i'm not mistaken. he literally said, i am not making this up, that if you have a problem with boards dedicated to nigger-loving cuckolds, you are a commie. i'm serious. i couldn't make this up if i tried.
it seemed like every fucking day someone was stirring shit on /digi/. it was nearly nonstop. looking back i probably issued a ban every other fucking day on that shithole of a website. for comparison, the last ban i have personally issued on zzzchan was a month ago. it was becoming pretty fucking obvious that /digi/ had a lot of enemies. like... holy shit. you would think we were fucking /leftypol/ or some shit but basically all we ask of you is to not be a nigger-loving cuck, a normalnigger, a non-functioning screeching autist with tard rage, or a spammer. but this was too tall of an order for 8niggers.
eventually some stupid shit-stirrer came to the board to point out, for the billionth time, that zonz is using the board and is underage. nobody fucking cared. i didn't fucking care either. you wanna know why i didn't care? because every other fucking day i had to ban some nigger retard for intentionally shitting up the board and fucking with the community, so comparatively someone who is a few months away from being 18 wasn't a big deal to me. the other reason i didn't care is because the fucking globals didn't care. i reported zonz twice due to a petty grudge and two different globals DID NOT FUCKING CARE. THEY DISMISSED THE REPORT AND DID NOTHING. if the globals don't want to enforce their global rule on underage posters, then neither do i.
so i just said that basically. i told the retard who came to the board to start drama for like the 6th time about LOL ZONZ UNDERAGE that "the admins do not fucking care, i reported him twice and they did nothing. stop talking about it. nobody cares how old zonz is or that zonz posts here" or something like that, basically. i think the retard kept pushing the issue and i think i just banned him because i was sick of it.
i'm 99% sure that retard went and told the globals/admins because zonz got banned again and people got really mad because the globals do not fucking care about our board at all until it's time to start fucking with it and banning zonz and whatever. i had long been tired of 8nigger and was ready to leave but finally it seems the BO got tired as well, had finally had enough, people in the community were really fucking fed up with everything by this point. i tried to keep everyone calm and told them that there was something in the works. i didn't say what but i was basically looking at every single imageboard on earth for the BO and eventually advised him that we should probably move here. he asked to host his board here and sturgeon allowed him. i started helping the BO move as soon as we got the board.
it turns out zonz wasn't even underage or something and his ban for being 17 was over 1 year ago so he was already 18 or some shit. so by this point they weren't even banning an underage person they were really just fucking around with the board. they decided to lift the ban.
my memory is just after this, we announced that the thing that was in the works was the move to zzzchan because we had had enough, basically. we announced it wasn't done but we were working on getting everything sorted out for a hopefully seamless transition. that's when shit got really, really fucking bad.
to anyone on the 8nigger global team who is angry about what i am about to say: keep in mind that it's literally all factual. i'm not misrepresenting what happened in the slightest. so get mad at me if you want to. it makes no sense for you to, because you did this, not me.
acid and codexx decided to publicly accuse me of being silvia with no evidence. yes, silvia, the pedophile spammer guy. the guy who, at that time, i had conflated with someone else who was grooming a child. so i was under the impression i was also being accused of being a man who is grooming his daughter.
i was fucking furious. these people had never once bothered to interact with me, ask to talk with me so that they can better get an idea of who is moderating one of their biggest boards on the site, they never bothered to read my very public posts on the board to get a better idea of who i am, they didn't bother to do anything. to be fair, no, i never reached out to them either. but due to the fact that at least one global had come to our board to break our rules and i had to ban him, and due to the fact that i believed acid was not a person who acts in good faith due to the webring debacle, i thought i was being wise in choosing to not interact with the globals. i just wanted to help run the board and not get involved in stupid global politics shit. after all, they really had no reason to bother us as we literally never step on anyones toes and we keep to ourselves.
well, i had enough, and immediately freaked out on acid and codexx. their reasoning for accusing me of being silvia was:
-silvia had once reported zonz for being underage. when silvia reported zonz, they banned zonz.
-i publicly posted that i reported zonz twice and the globals did nothing. this doesn't line up with silvia at all, but still, they took this as an admission that i am silvia. because they are that fucking stupid.
-silvia made an account on 8nigger using the same email provider as me. no, not the same email address; that would indeed be damning. the same PROVIDER. basically, their implication is that if two people both have protonmail accounts, well they must be the same person. yes, THEY ARE THAT RETARDED.
that was their evidence. they said stupid shit to me like "i bet you have the same bypass ID as silvia" so i fucking confronted them and TOLD them to check, because i obviously don't. i believe codexx checked. they asked me to find the two times i reported zonz for being underage. i found both reports. i showed them both reports. i told them to check both reports so they could see the IP/bypass ID and verify that i had independently reported zonz, and this is what i was talking about. i wasn't talking about silvia reporting zonz. i obviously didn't even know silvia had ever reported zonz. he apparently did this before i ever joined the board.
the BO was obviously also extremely upset that they were slandering one of his moderators, and he backed me up. i also have a mutual acquaintance who has known me for years. he backed me up. this convinced them that i am not silvia. i told them to check the mod logs (which they said had not been wiped and they still had access to them) to verify the reports of zonz for being underage were done by me. they told me they wouldn't bother. for someone who was just accused of being someone i'm not, the fact that they wouldn't bother to verify my innocence infuriated me, but they both apologized and i reluctantly relented. it was a really bad day for me.
codexx invited me to talk to him again in the future. i wanted to tell him to go jump head first into a volcano, but i reluctantly agreed. i'm glad i did this because he became instantly aware that he had made a pretty serious error, and later on he stood up for me when someone was slandering me and accusing me of being silvia. more on that later, but in a nutshell, believe it or not, i have forgiven codexx. i hope that codexx learns from this and decides to be more careful before accusing someone of something extremely serious. he is an admin of a large website, and when he says things like this, people are going to believe him. he has a lot of power and he needs to be much more careful with it. i just happened to be the poor fuck who got caught up in him learning this lesson.
they also accused the BO of some gayop campaign to damage the site and get people to leave for zzzchan or something. as far as i know, they didn't even have a single reason to believe this. for me, they had absolutely dogshit retarded reasons to accuse me of silvia that don't stand up to 20 seconds of scrutiny, but at least they gave me reasons. bad ones, but reasons. as far as the the BO being in some gayop to fuck up 8nigger? afaik they had literally no reason to believe this.
anyway, so we're moved over, and we're by this point absolutely furious. all we ever wanted was to be fucking left alone so that we can JUST FUCKING CHAT WITH EACH OTHER AND HAVE A NICE TIME, and on our way out to greener pastures, in hopes of us not being fucked with anymore, we get dealt this final "fuck you" blow by a site that has pretty much made our imageboard experience a living hell since the beginning.
it gets worse. the stupid accusations didn't die. someone was still peddling this shit. i didn't bother intervening for two reasons:
1) of course i am going to say that i'm not a bad guy. of course i am going to say i'm not silvia. people who want to believe that i am silvia are just going to accuse me of being silvia no matter what i say. it wouldn't have helped.
2) other people, to my surprise, were actually already defending me, the BO, and the board as a whole. to the good anons of the board who saw the whole shitshow go down and chose to call out bullshit from obvious shit-stirrers, thanks. that actually cut through my pessimism like a hot knife.
to this very day i don't think i have ever addressed the allegation because i felt like i don't really need to: everyone here obviously knows better, and stupid retards who wanted to believe that shit are not the kind of people i would ever want to talk to anyway. but anyway, it persisted. in defense of codexx a second time, someone slandered /digi/ hard on the meta board. he claimed that codexx had evidence we are a secret cabal of bad guys who do... bad things? he didn't specify, he just said we're some shit-stirring cabal and that i'm silvia. he got basic facts wrong too, for example, he said i was the board owner (i was not). codexx had once said that if someone is stirring shit about us, he would defend us. the BO apparently linked codexx to the post that was slandering us, and codexx backed us, debunked the claim that he has "a dossier" about us, and encouraged people to email him. again, credit to codexx for having the balls to admit he fucked up and try to do right about it.
the stupid fucking rumors persisted until a few months ago. they have finally all died. i am now certain that the people who were fucking with us were none other than 8nigger /v/. remember that 8nigger /v/ mod who came to the board to sperg out about katawa shoujo and ban evade? eden? well, he had been gaslighting the /v/ mod team into believing the stupid drama about /digi/ started by the admins despite the fact that the admins had already apologized and redacted these claims. in fact, one of the moderators of 8nigger /v/, "suds," said something very similar in the leaked moderator chat to what was posted on meta. basically, it's pretty fucking clear who was carrying the drama after it had otherwise died off.
right before eden got doxed and the 8nigger /v/ cabal got exposed for shit-stirring on zzzchan constantly, someone was trying to get us into a board war with /japan/. the person who was doing this blatantly accused me of being silvia on /japan/. he was trying to gaslight /japan/ into hating us. as soon as eden got doxed and 8nigger /v/ got exposed, that stopped entirely. to this day, it has not resumed.
ever since the dox and chatlog leaks, all of the smearing and slandering of the board has stopped. i have no doubt in my mind that it was eden and likely others on the 8nigger /v/ mod team who were doing it, especially considering their /digi/ hateboner was leaked to the public.
there you go. it has finally been addressed. that is the story of how an innocuous board that has a history of fucking with nobody and bothering nobody got treated worse than any board in history that i can remember. it's honestly pretty fucking depressing and really just goes to show how awful so much of the community is over at 8nigger, which is truly, in my opinion, a new low for imageboards.
please do not bother anyone mentioned in this post. it's fucking done, they have been exposed numerous times. everyone here knows that 8nigger is bad. all of zzzchan knows 8nigger is bad. they have been exposed extremely hard and this post is not going to convince anyone to leave that still decides to use that site. for the record: acid did apologize to me. i still don't like him personally, but i'm not really worried about him. codexx apologized to me as well and made it up to me by publicly rescinding what he said about /digi/ as well as about me. he also defended us.
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