I always believed that he quit because the ed + edf was becoming too much hassle but I can get behind the idea he was retard to dox himself.
That has truth to it too. I won't divulge how much but über blew a lot of his own money on ED's servers. And as meepsheep said a few pages back there's CP on ED. Zaiger gave privs to randos he liked and those who could help him run the site. Onideus was one of these. The idiot kept onideus around to deal with legal disputes while embezzling the donation money to fuel his drug addiction. Onideus inserted his sick borderline CP fetish material to a lot of articles. I recall über writing a python script to detect these images and us manually removing them.
About edf2, the best part for me was the self explosion that happen frequently. I still remember about that egyptian kid.
And talking about edf2 cliches do you know what happen to the old fart j1 (something) and kurisu? I hope them are okayish not going assnapkings route or death.
I don't remember them. Milwin was a cool guy who disappeared. Is he the egyptian you mean? He was middle-eastern but I don't know more. He'd troll schnookums.
My involvement with the site was minor and I was oblivious to the true nature of that "community" all along. I was originally underage (and barely spoke English) and pitched an article idea about a true PoS who manipulated teens and published IPs to send harassment. Über liked it and wrote the article. I sporadically stuck around EDF. Über randomly doxed himself to me which I misunderstood as him wanting to be friends. Schnookums tried to manipulate me into giving out über's dox. I later learned schnookums was a forum admin too for tech stuff and über and schn made up along the way after attacking and threatening each other. It made no sense. (I forgave schn too because of über.) Über threatened me at one point regarding his dox too. Zaig also gave admin to likeicare who's a diagnosed psychopath and would randomly power abuse for no reason. They bonded over drugs or something.
I returned when they were ousting zaiger. Sibin locked him out for the donation money thing. Onideus reappeared to threaten. I recall it was a big deal to hide who the real owner is at that point. Sibin gave me admin because I was über's friend. I started focusing on the wiki too from that point onward and eventually put it together that it's just a playground for losers making ad hominem articles instead of going after the true pieces of shit with facts. Sibin's server failed and the backups too and it was blamed on me. Then came stolen valor who got really triggered by onideus threatening him (private email he Cc'd to girloninternet and me) and went to combat rationalwiki (
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Talk:Encyclopædia_Dramatica/Archive1#Defamation). One day he disappeared and it was pulled up he was in jail.
The last straw for me was when the user ilovemenandwomen's mother OD'd and they were trying to put it in a year book as a funny EDF thing. I voiced my disapproval about this degeneracy to über who shortly after got extremely paranoid I was going to dox him. (I just addressed him as his first name in private and he went full hysterical.) For the record I don't know what he was involved with and don't care, won't speculate. .wil's pisscord gang and the EDF guys were going all full backstab mode as conrad's host died and I was done with them shortly after.
I think I should note that ED has a culture of sexual exploitation. Zaiger's actions are out there. There's also the case of Baka/Boudica. She used to hang around the schnookums/vx/etc wiki circle. I don't know if she was trying to suck up or was manipulated but she sent nudes to the wiki admin vx (or vx salesman). She's a manipulative backstabber in her own right though. I used to have a crush on her. She'd start shit about me like the hysterical I'm "ruining" her ED by implementing the changes I had über's approval for and rallied the forum against me for a temp ban (to calm her down) but also would come to me for emotional validation when her cats died and other sucking up. When I became admin I had randos approach me too. Suddenly me privately messaging people as I used to was treated as me "creeping in DMs" as über put it and I was too inexperienced to recognize this. .wil's mod megamanly was friendly with me and started sending me nudes in-between normal stuff. (I was open about my fat fetish and I'd occassionally reciprocate with belly pics. I also made it common knowledge that I'm not into cocks/breasts/vag. I showed my penis on one of these and it got reposted as revenge porn. Megamanly got very scared that I was gonna repost his dozen nudes to the fact that he did not partake in their organized pisscord lynching of me.)
There might be inaccuracies here and there. It was a long time ago and I was just an oblivious useful idiot for the most part. I had a long think about it and realized they're all criminals and trash I'm better off disavowing. It doesn't come as a surprise that they're repeating themselves.
Gonna fuck off now.