Atonashi

– JGZinv made me look like a big jerk who disturbed his business plans. The way I saw it JGZinv wanted to leverage AFC to start his own import business and he had a problem with me because I was sharing with other fans without looking for personal gain. I was posting the doujins I had because I wanted to share them with the rest of the peeps, and JGZinv tried to shut me down so he could set up shop. Obviously I’m the bad guy then. I had many problems with the Morrises but even they didn’t think I shouldn’t be allowed to share just because JGZinv didn’t like it.

The reason JGZinv’s business failed wasn’t because of me, it was because he was trying to set up as a middle man for something peeps could do on their own. The prices from Japanese auctions were steep enough already, why would peeps pay a cut to one more middle man? Also not that many peeps were interested in these doujins to begin with. I eventually stopped scanning because of too little interest and peeps just using those threads to say negative things about Kajishima. Why should I take apart my doujins and spend time scanning and sharing if that’s the case.

– Because I had problems with the Morrises and JGZinv, they retaliated by accusing me that I was the troll who had started attacking Astro around that time. Partially I brought it on myself because at first I used public logins from Bugmenot to post at ezboard after they screwed everyone with the big wipeout disaster and I swore I wouldn’t be a member there. Because of me others learned about these logins as well and started using them to troll the board, and I had to get my own ez account after all to avoid trouble. I hated the damn ez and tried to get the AFC mods to move the board somewhere other than a company that was openly screwing peeps over. JGZinv actually thought so too but because he had a problem with me because of his business plan he didn’t want to side with me. The Morrises never did anything about the move and treated everyone who wanted to move like impetuous children, especially me because I was very vocal about it. It even got to the point where Mary Morris refused to post my scans to her Oni-hime collection because obviously it makes sense to not work together on anything at all if you have a problem with someone over something completely unrelated.

My point is I never had a problem with Astro, only with JGZinv and the Morrises. I spoke with Astro many times and there was never any trouble between us. It was really stupid to think I was attacking Astro when he was the only mod I never had any problems with. The irony is I actually recommended to Astro that he make JGZinv and FullGonzo mods later when he was left running the board alone. At one point Astro told me that he was fed up and thinking of shutting down the board, and I told him why don’t you get some more mods then to help out, you don’t have to do it alone when there are many good peeps around. I don’t know if he ever told them about my suggestion or not and he might have selected them even without me saying anything, but it’s a fact that I suggested them to him, you can ask him. Unlike JGZinv I don’t hold it against peeps if I have a particular disagreement with them like with the doujin business thing, so I had no problem suggesting him because I’d seen he had good ideas and energy to contribute.

– I don’t know why JGZinv tiptoed around naming the main source of AFC trouble when everyone knows it was Jibril aka Rolf. I had several unpleasant experiences with him too, including when he spammed my inbox for several weeks with “you’re a homo” messages when I sided with Nik against him. I remember I had to turn to FullGonzo to get that to stop. He also tried to fool me with his “I’m a girl” game but fortunately peeps like Astro clued me in about that. The guy obviously liked to get his kicks from spinning lies and tweaking others. JGZinv may think I have a big ego because I’m a little rough around the edges, but the kind of shit Jibril pulled at AFC was something else. I never understood why the mods let it go on for so long and this whole thing with breaking into his inbox before they could ban him seems pretty out there to me. I think many peeps on this board know pretty well how Jibril operates without me going on about it.

– I don’t agree with the storyline about the AFC mods as the victims of misbehaving members and trolls. I think if you’re a mod and you let your board deteriotate like that, then you’re simply not a very good mod. It’s ridiculous that it took forever to do anything about Jibril for example. Everyone knew he was gutting the board but because of mod indecision nothing was done for the longest time. The mods always wanted to do the bare minimum and avoid any effort. It was obvious ez sucked but those who suggested moving and even listed alternatives were ignored or rebuked. Especially my good friends the Morrises acted like they were some kind of parents with all the answers and the members were stupid kids. My mouth dropped open when I found out that peeps were paying to keep the ez board ad free instead of using the same money to get proper hosting. If there was money for that, there was no need to go with the free Invisionplus hosting that later backfired.

The mods always had the option to engage with all the peeps on the board and get ideas and help, but they preferred to remain floating above. It’s like when Astro told me he was fed up and wanted to close the board he never went to the members and asked for help, it was by purely accident that we got to talking about it. With this way of doing things of course you burn out and start thinking of your members as a nuisance instead of a resource. I recognize there was a lot to deal with sometimes and I wasn’t the most congenial member myself but there were definitely things the mods could have done to improve the situation but didn’t. I thought JGZinv was someone who could have breathed fresh air into the board, but he wasn’t into Tenchi as much as Dual and the old mod culture must have gotten in the way too.

That was quite an introduction I know, but what can you do under the circumstances.