The chatroom is and always has been my personal court and if you annoy me I will ban you from it. I've done it for far less.
Cody Wilson agreed to meet a woman who lied about her age. In most states, there is some wiggle room with statutory rape laws for consensual sex, especially where it can be proven that the minor lied about their age. Texas is not that state. In an incredibly rare move, the Department of State arranged with the government of Taiwan (which has no extradition treaty with the US) to extradite Cody Wilson while overseas for business back to Texas to face state-level charges for statutory rape, facing like a decade in prison for it. The supposed victim of this crime was coerced into giving testimony by the federal government, which pressed charges even when she did not want them to.
Wilson is the head of Defense Distributed, a 3D Gun Printing company that was in a lawsuit against the Department of Defense for imposing unconstitutional restrictions on 3D Printed Guns. This move was a political move. It was done to humiliate, destroy, and incarcerate a high-value target operating against the ZOG.
He was also one of the few people to ever stick their neck out for me, and allowed me to use Hatreon while it was up. Hatreon was taken down by Vordrak and never went back up. Zed knew this. He knows, but does not care, about the facts of this. So about once a week, every week, for at least a year, he will bring this case up in my presence to annoy the fuck out of me. And, granted, it works. An interesting thing to bring up constantly when you hate talking about politics as much as Zed, but I suppose we all have our indulgences.
Now here's my secret: I can tolerate a lot of fags saying stupid faggot shit on my site, but I'm hard pressed to tolerate it when it's in chat, or when I'm being @'d. That's why I moderate my chatroom differently than the rest of the site, and that is why the quickest way to get banned is to @ me into stupid bullshit.
I have desperately, over years at this point, tried to appease Zed. As all the 'dox clique' people left, he became relatively more valuable. I have always deeply appreciated and respected his contributions to the site, and I put up with an immense amount of aggravation in order to better enable Zed as a contributor. As he became louder in his complaints, I decided to try delegating responsibility to him to try and placate him and allow him to be the change he wanted to see. He quickly started receiving more user complaints about mod actions than any other mod in the site's history (including OwO).
Every day, every single day, Zed is in chat just bitching about the site. Bitching about the politics, bitching about the tranny sperging, bitching about some dude getting the dox wrong in some shit thread no one gives a fuck about. I could tolerate all this for a very long time, until this week. I am now certain I am more annoyed by people bitching about the site than the actual current userbase.
I'll be on break from the 19th until I feel like coming back, during which time I'll think about what I want to do with the site going forward. For now, I am pretty sure I will be holding the site hostage to two conditions: 1) it will become financially stable in short order, and 2) it will become fun again. What those two things entail, I'm not 100% sure yet, but it'll be so.