Well, I can't PM at the moment so I guess I'll just say upfront why I created an account here. To be honest, for most of the people who post in here, I don't take much stock in what they say. However, I am wondering what happened with
Blam
because she was a part of ERA's creation before what I assume was a falling out, and being the ever-curious fellow that I am, I really wonder what happened behind the scenes (if that is allowed to be stated of course).
Well where do I start. Basically after the whole situation went down. I asked to help make the design and logos for resetera. I joined the discord and started talking to everyone who was involved, Cerium, Nicole, all the other admins etc. So maybe a day in we had accrued a bunch of people to help with various things, at this point ZhugeEX & Shinobi were on the team, as were a couple others Ferny, etc.
It was dysfunctional to say the least everyone who wanted to help was invited which I knew was going to be a problem coming down to it just with how much they rushed. Discord at that time was also going crazy. Well lets say maybe late that Friday, We were working on logos me and the other designer on the team at the time. While this was going on site guidelines, and rules were to be established, which they sorta were but not to the extent that was talked about. As it stands I had mentioned we don't run on ads ever. And have some sort of counter on the site to show where the money was going, and all that a lot of ideas scrapped because "transparency" is not an issue. Regardless around this time the first logo got leaked, and pushed around, and we had a wave of kicks, and then a few of the people kicked (me included) were re invited, and I continued to work on logos and started a rough design on the theme for the site, and then after posting a WIP of my logo it got leaked again prior to it maybe 20 minutes after. Surely they'd fix it this time, so they kicked all the designers and put them in a separate group, and everything was going fine as we had bought a theme to modify and push as the resetera theme as we couldn't wait to put the site up.
Now around this time. I had mentioned I wouldn't stop posting on GAF, even after the whole debacle and really it was a shitshow then. Then someone brought this up to Nicole, probably a designer as maybe 10 minutes later I was on the test bed for the design of the site, and I saw my post being skewed on the testbed as the placeholder logo. Now right after this I was kicked from the design discord server, and then Nicole kicked and banned me after "publicly" (in the private channel for trusted users at the time) calling me out and talking shit. Now right after this I was basically pushed around left and right for things that I didn't do. I had a lot of back and forth with Cerium about what happened.
At first nobody could tell me what I had done, and then after persistently talking to them for a couple of days after ERA was being worked on so around Monday I had finally gotten at least on of the alleged reasons of about why I was banned/kicked from the team. Now at this time I was told that I had leaked the logos on 8chan. Which I immediately denied as being true since I still to this day have not even found a thread on there which had my logos on them. Then I proceeded to ask others about why I was kicked and I then I got that I was leaking invite codes, and the only server I was in at the time the CanDealsGAF didn't actually let me see the codes to the signup. Since I had already made an account there to test site stability and the such. So another false accusation made against me.
I continued to help anyway I could even after all this, and basically it ran all the way till when they banned me the first time "to test the warning system" except this ban was issued by Nicole who had shown an extreme distaste to me and refused to even mention my name. By this time I had been banned for a week or 2 once again asking away with Cerium about site progress and if help was needed. So he overturned my ban, and things went on their merry way. Once again I got banned for a second time this time for an email. And this is where they pushed the narrative that I leaked the invite codes, logos, and everything else. Which once again there was literally no proof not even proof of these posts ever occurring on 8chan, but basically I was a dumbass who used a throwaway email (cock.li) which they linked to 8chan because they allow you to create an email using their domain (news flash it's being run by a 4channer).
So basically they permabanned me using a "list of banned domains", but this list doesn't preban already registered accounts just doesn't allow previously used emails to be used, now I had asked Cerium to help me out by just changing my email which he just ignored for the most part, and 2ish days later responded telling me he couldn't do it, and just excuses basically, lastly he mentioned that nobody on the admin team would want me to return. Which at the time I was beyond extremely depressed. So I just blew up on twitter, made a lot of long ass posts on twitter and discord and cemented that I wouldn't ever be allowed on their site again.
Basically all of this stemmed from a bunch of bullshit which they have not to this day proven to be legit, and any other discussions against me to get unbanned just come up to saying "we moved on and don't wanna deal with this shit sorry"
Could I also just add a side note I said we should be public with the money earned on ERA for site upgrades and other shit, but currently ERA Clear is $40/year. Giantbomb asks for $30 and they are able to make all that. Doesn't this just spell greed? Like a shitload of it? ERA doesn't even upgrade their site, it's running on the same boxes that we had in the beginning this also coming from the team having a Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure engineer team on there.
Also the site only costs $600 to run haha, the amount of excess money people are throwing at ERA hurts, and to this day my logo still shows up on the images for the site when you do search it which is nice lol.
SweetNicole still holds this grudge for something I never did and no amount of proof even me asking the owner of 8chan to confirm if my IP was even in the same location as those posts. Transparent my ass.