Perikles

Introduction

Author of Archer's Plot, known for extreme views on Network Admins and being a supporter of the Curia. TWC Moderator, ex-CDC and ex-CoP member. Never actually elected a moderator due to some reason or another but gets by without the seal of Popular approval.

Member of the House of Wilpuri under the patronage of imb39.

Contributions

• Various Curial Bills
• Organiser of the last Member Awards under the remit of the CoP
• Served 2 CDC terms
• Librarian from the creation of the Scriptorium to December 2006
• 2 Eagle Standard Articles interviewing RTR and Rise of Persia
• Moderator since 4 August 2006
• Contributor to this Wiki

History

The story of jp's short but eventful time at TWC

Beginnings

After joining in February 2006 I became a regular of the Political Mudpit where I was noticed by a few members as being potential Civitate material. Eventually patronised by Ummon a month after joining, I joined the ranks of the Curia just before the April Fools Joke on the members. During this period I became friendly with imb39 after he conned me into believing that Crandar really had returned (Damn him!). When Ummon left the site in May I transferred patronage to imb39 and haven't looked back.

Summer

After being a member of both the CoP and CdeC in the Summer of 2006 I asked to be entered into some moderator elections that may take place while I was on holiday. Upon returning from holiday I found I was in an election and many had thought I had left due to my inactivity. After the ensuing crisis of alledged widespread use of PM's to canvass for votes I was appointed a Moderator along with Evariste and Seleukos. With the Curia now attacking me for being appointed rather than elected I set about trying to be a good moderator, something which I hope I achieved with my 'less is more' mantra. My moderating style is laid back and Infractions are only issued very rarely, usually for personnal attacks.

The 3 Crises

Staff

October was the month of the Staff Rebellion against Archer. I knew something was up when Tac resigned. Later I found out Archer had removed him due to him supposedly reading PM's on MYSQL however I am not sure of the factuality of this. I was invited to sign a letter which called for the removal of Archer and was to be posted in staff with the signatures. It was a great letter really and argued not against Archer as a person but his lack of leadership and communication skills. The letter called for his resingation from Imperator to either Hex or Staff or the general membership. A few days later I came online to find TWC in chaos yet again. Archer had just demoted everyone and promoted HG to Hex (who saw some unfavourable things about him which had some bigger consequences for TWC down the line) along with Belisarius to Admin. Eventually after much arguing everyone got back in Staff and HG and Belisarius (who eventually returned and has since become Content Manager) left TWC. Hex became a supposed council of equals and everyone was happy (well we'll see about that later on).

The Ongoing Saga of Selling the Site

TWC was going fine, MTW2 was just out, the moderation was perfect, the deabates were going well and the mods were just appearing. Then I asked General Sun if he knew TWC was up for sale (which was commonish knowledge at the time) in passing conversation. He was amazed and we soon had Evariste and Professor420 in our conversation. In my other msn window was imb39, I asked him if he was interested in our plan to buy the site and he joined the conversation 5 minutes later and offered to buy the site outright. After approaching Ogre and finding out about the pitiful zboard's offer we were ecstatic, but worried at how far into the deal ON were. The long wait for Ogre to decide began and during this time Besim reappeared at TWC...

Besim

At first we thought this was good, but the longer he stayed the more he wanted to interfere in things he did not understand. For more details on Besim's reasons for meddling in TWC, destabilisng the site and hindering the sale to us please see Of the Exile. Then I came on TWC one morning to find:

• A New Skin that was Pink
• Half of Hex demoted
• The Curia deleted (well removed from view)
• All Civitates and Patricians demoted

I immediatly went on msn and started talking to Besim, inviting all the other staff on msn to the conversation. We hammered out some compromises such as getting the Curia back and imb39 (who had resigned the previous week), Lusted (who had been demoted) and I were given access to the Admin Control Panel to fix the ranks. However Besim did not give us the required access so it was pointless. Then Professor420 was banned, I told Besim he could not just do that at TWC, it was not how we operated by threatening members and banning them. He then threatened to ban me for dissenting! This was a big mistake on his part as I was now dead set agaisnt him. I immediatly added Prof's Of the Exile article to my Signature in the now imfamous 'The Truth' style and encouraged others to do so. I opened a thread polling the members on what they thought of Besim (Link) however he removed the poll and added it to this thread (Link) the results are obvious to see. After some flames and trolls between various members (me included I'm sorry to say) and network administrators Besim caved in and gave control of TWC back to Hex. HG reappeared during this episode and the plotting of the next and final crisis is said to have begun immediatly after the fall of Besim...

Quotes

ON have given birth to a new doctrine in running a forum: 'stupidity' (In response to HG being appointed Administrator of TWC)