The Purchase

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The series of events which led up to the Sale of the Site detailed in this article lasted from January 16, 2007 until January 20, 2007.

Causes

A number of reasons can be attributed to causing this incident. After the the Besim Episode there was still a lot of resentment from the TWC members towards the owners, Ogres Net. The members believed ON were out of touch with the community and ON were wary of some members of TWC trying to buy the site before, which they falsely believed was a Curial attempt to take over. Those who had attempted to buy the site before still though there was a chance of succeeding and were willing to play upon ON's weaknesses to achieve this, rightly or wrongly. When HorseArcher unexpectedly resigned [1] as Head Administrator of Total War Center the remaining Hexagon Council were unsure how to react. As highlighted hereON wanted a 3 admin system (Triumvirate)) back and Hex were voting on who should be the administrators when this process was abruptly halted on January 16, 2007 by the appointment of Honor&Glory as the only administrator of TWC. Incidentally, Hex had decided upon imb39 as Head of the Site, with Fabolous as Content Admin and Simetrial as Technical Admin.

Chronology of Events

Friday January 12, 2007

• Archer resigned unexpectedly [2]

Tuesday January 16, 2007

• Lusted resigns from staff [3]
• Staff removed by Ogre and HG made Admin [4]
• HG advertises for new moderators [5]
• Number of members banned a few hours later

Wednesday January 17, 2007

• Former Staff decide to make own site, Lusted, Simetrical and Mimirswell head up this whilst imb39 pursues the sale of TWC
• A number of moderators Richard the Lionheart left in place resign.[ Trajan ] [ Aristocrat ] [ Katrina ] [ ScottishRanger ]
• The banning of members continues
• Justinian's Message was created by Justinian on the front page of this wiki

Thursday January 18, 2007

• Gaius Balter is made a moderator [6]
• Members are unbanned but treated badly by administration

Friday January 19, 2007

• HG removed and Horsearcher made admin, much like predicted by imb39
• Archer's Plot started by Perikles

Saturday January 20, 2007

• After discovering their accounts were in Coventry Ozymandias and Perikles begin to spam the forum with links to Archer's Plot using duplicate accounts and encourage others to do so. These members are also placed in Coventry and some members are IP banned.
• Using a duplicate account the spamming of the link to the new forum is started by Perikles and a full scale spamming riot begins at TWC. [7]
• imb39's and gigagaia's accounts were deleted by an (unknown) admin.
• imb39 buys the site late into the night, putting the deletion of his acocunt to the best use, and along with Simetrical orders a stop to the spamming. [8]