Spy*ke was a powerful global mod here who was friends with the owner (Sythe). One day, after ex-admin Tyro posted evidence that "Finn was dishonest" in a highly dramatic thread. Tyro ended up being banned and Spy*ke, who had started to become an increasing source of drama himself on the staff, started his own site with Tyro as co-admin.
The forum's member population consists largely of notable banned members from Sythe. There have been many disputes between the two forums, with Spy*ke calling Sythe and its staff corrupt while Sythe calling Spy*ke a place for banned members to hangout.
Recently, Spy*ke himself has instituted "forum account trading" on his site, where Spy*ke members can buy and sell Sythe accounts. Do what you want on either site, but if Spy*ke continues at the rate it/he is going things might get ugly...
Slightly off the mark...
So the people can see we (the Staff) being very open about this and it isn't really a concern, here you go:
Spyike was actually a highly respectable member on this site a while ago. He had thousands of dollars in trades under his belt, and a phenomenal amount of market experience. He was then promoted to Market Moderator, and then proceeded on to become a Global Moderator. He contributed a heck of a lot, and his activity and type of moderating could be comparable to FireZ's - not to mention he helped gather a lot of income for Sythe through his Paypal Donation service. Unfortunately while he was a Solid Staff member, his views and actions as well as opinions clashed greatly with the rest of the staff - one thing led to another, and he ended up an Ex-Global and left Sythe.org to begin his own forum.
This competitive site wasn't exactly greeted with open hands by us here Sythe, for numerous reasons I won't elaborate on. Tyro himself was completely opposed to it as well - which I find quite comical seeing as he is one of the most active there now. Again one thing led to another, and opposing policies with theirs meant that the site was censored on Sythe.org.
It appears since then Spyike has surrounded himself in the people he once sought to destroy, and has gone against all that he believed in - something that we here at Sythe don't support. He has now introduced a new forum for buying and selling Fourm accounts - particularly those off Sythe - and also seeks to breach the Staff security as well as also bringing down this site.
Spyike and his community seem to be under the impression we are greatly inconvenienced as well as highly strung up and worried over their current actions, when in all honesty there are more important things we are spending our time and attention on - we are more concerned with catering for this community as well as improving our site as a whole.
While we greatly respect what Spyike was and has done in the past, it disappoints us when we see what he has become.
EDIT: I believe this is all the attention this topic needs or really deserves considering it's insignificance on our agenda. I think it can be closed.
