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{{member|name=Perikles|avatarimagelocation=periklesavatar.gif|mainrank=[[Moderator]] of [[TWC]]|ranks=[[Moderator]], [[Patrician]], [[Wiki Project Editor]]|patron=[[imb39]]|patronof=[[Goscinio]], [[Kara Kolyo]], [[burrek]], [[MarcusCorneliusMarcellus]], [[Candelarius]], [[Rammstein]] and [[RTR Fan]]}}
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{{member|name=Perikles|avatarimagelocation=periklesavatar.gif|mainrank=ex-[[Moderator]] of [[TWC]]|ranks=[[Civitate]]|patron=[[imb39]]|patronof=[[Goscinio]], [[Kara Kolyo]], [[burrek]], [[MarcusCorneliusMarcellus]], [[Candelarius]], [[Rammstein]] and [[RTR Fan]]}}
  
'''Perikles''', originally jp, is currently a Global moderator.
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'''Perikles''' was a moderator. (4 Aug 06 - 4 Sep 07)
  
Author of [[Archer's Plot]], known for extreme views on [[Ogres Net]] Network Admins and being a supporter of the [[Curia]].  TWC [[:category:moderator|Moderator]], [[CDC]] and ex-[[CoP]] member. He was appointed as a Moderator in a storm of controversy, but was ratified as a moderator 8 months later.
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TWC [[:category:moderator|Moderator]], [[CDC]] and ex-[[CoP]] member. Author of [[Archer's Plot]].  
  
 
Member of the [[:Category:House of Wilpuri|House of Wilpuri]] under the patronage of [[imb39]].
 
Member of the [[:Category:House of Wilpuri|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 3 [[CDC]] terms, Serving a 4th now.
 
*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 and [[Wiki Project Editor|Officer]] of this Wiki
 
  
 
== History ==
 
== History ==
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*Appointed [[Patrician]] 30th August, 2006
 
*Appointed [[Patrician]] 30th August, 2006
 
*Appointed Global Moderator
 
*Appointed Global Moderator
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*Resigned September 4, 2007.
  
The story of jp's short but eventful time at [[TWC]]
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The story of Perikles' short but eventful time at [[TWC]]
  
 
=== Beginnings ===
 
=== 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. My mainly conservative views were shared by members such as [[Carach]] and [[the Black Prince]], while I often debated agaisnt [[Shyam Popat]] and [[Squeakus Maximus|Ozymandias]]. Strangely the 2 people who influenced my first 2 months on TWC the most were Shyam and Carach, coming from opposite ends of the political spectrum. I was eventually patronised by [[Ummon]] a month after joining, I joined the ranks of the Curia just before the [[Total War Center History|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.
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After joining in February 2006, Perikles became a regular of the Political Mudpit where he was noticed by a few members as being potential Civitate material. His mainly rightist ideology was shared by members such as [[Carach]] and [[the Black Prince]], while he often debated agaisnt [[Shyam Popat]] and [[Squeakus Maximus|Ozymandias]]. He was eventually patronized by [[Ummon]] a month after joining, and joined the ranks of the Curia just before the [[Total War Center History|April Fools Joke]] upon the members.
  
=== Summer ===
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=== Summer 2006 ===
  
After being a member of both the [[CoP]] and [[Consilium de Civitate|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 alleged widespread use of PM's to canvass for votes I was appointed a [[:category:moderator|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 personal attacks.
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After the ensuing crisis of alleged widespread use of PM's to canvass for votes he was controversially appointed a [[:category:moderator|Moderator]] along with [[Evariste]] and [[Seleukos]].  
  
 
=== The Depression ===
 
=== The Depression ===
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==== Staff ====
 
==== Staff ====
  
October was the month of the [[Staff Rebellion]] against [[Archer]]. I knew something was up when [[Tacticalwithdrawal|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 resignation 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).
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October was the month of the [[Staff Rebellion]] against [[Archer]]. A letter called for his resignation from Imperator to either Hex or Staff or the general membership. [[TWC]] was in chaos (yet again and not for the last time). Archer had just demoted everyone and promoted [[HG]] to Hex ( this being the HG who then saw some unfavourable things about him in Hex, which had some bigger consequences for TWC down the line) along with [[Belisarius]] to Admin. Eventually after much arguing, all those who had been demoted, were repormoted, and HG and Belisarius (who eventually returned) 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 ====
 
==== The Ongoing Saga of Selling the Site ====
 
TWC was going fine, MTW2 was just out, the moderation was perfect, the debates 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 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 ====
 
==== 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, destabilising the site and hindering the sale to us please see [[Of the Exile]]. Then I came on TWC one morning to find:
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Perikles logged on TWC one morning to find:
  
 
* A New Skin that was Pink
 
* A New Skin that was Pink
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* All Civitates and Patricians demoted
 
* All Civitates and Patricians demoted
  
I immediately 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, and I just ended up reading Hex for half an hour. While reading Hex I saw a thread about future members of Hex, out of the 4 on the shortlist all but one have been on Hex. 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 against him. I immediately added Prof's [[Of the Exile]] article to my [[Signature]] in the now infamous 'The Truth' style and encouraged others to do so. I opened a thread polling the members on what they thought of Besim ([http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=71380 Link]) however he removed the poll and added it to this thread ([http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=71466 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, on the side of Besim, and the plotting of the next and final crisis is said to have begun immediately after the fall of Besim...
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[[Professor420]] was quickly banned, Perikles 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 Perikles for dissenting! After some flames and trolls, Besim caved in and gave control of [[TWC]] back to [[Hex]]. Notably, [[HG]] reappeared during this episode.
 
 
  
 
==== Honor&Glory ====
 
==== Honor&Glory ====
  
One Tuesday in January I was visiting TWC. It was 6 weeks since Besim and my activity had declined sharply. Not only had I been rejected by the Curia in the CDC elections and by certain others, people were saying I had tried to 'destroy the site' and after Ogre said he wasn't going to sell TWC I found logging on a chore, let alone moderating or posting. I felt slightly betrayed and bitter during this time, I'd helped get rid of an 'idiot' (to put it nicely) and been snubbed by the people it had helped. Then I refeshed the main TWC Index and suddenly the Staff Forum and Curia were gone and to my utter amazement [[Richard the Lionheart]] had a bold purple name. On joinng the thread in the Suggestus I thought this was a joke, surely the most hated person on TWC was not really an admin, how wrong I was. As more facts emerged we realised this was not a joke.
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It was 6 weeks since Besim and his activity had declined sharply. He found logging on a chore, let alone moderating or posting. Then he refeshed the main TWC Index and suddenly the Staff Forum and Curia were gone and to his utter amazement [[Richard the Lionheart]] had a bold purple name (One really can not understand how much of a surprise this was, Perikles' spat out his tea - haha). On joining the thread in the Suggestus he thought this was a joke, surely the most hated person on TWC was not really an admin, how wrong Perikles was. As more facts emerged people began to realise this was not a joke. Perikles was soon banned.
 
 
The next day I logged on in the morning to see if there were any developments. I found half the forum banned and in disgust I posted something about 'HG loving Ogre' (in harsher terms). When [[gigagaia]] saw he told me to edit it out quickly as we didn't want everyone banned. So I quickly edited it and then imb39 presented me with a perfect snipe at HG, asking what his vision for the future was. You can see my reply to imb's post in the 'Quotes' section below, I was banned immediately.
 
 
 
====New Site====
 
 
 
On the Wednesday night it was decided a new site was to be created to rival TWC. Simetrical set this up and Lusted/imb39 began the organisation of such a move. Luckily Simetrical had made a database backup quickly before he lost his admin powers, meaning the transition would be easy. The name [[Total War Horde]] was chosen at first with an aim of buying [[Total War Zone]] and then moving to that in the not too distnat future. Lusted organised for about half the mods at TWC to leave there altogether and join our forum, while the rest were going to maintain a presence at both.
 
 
 
====Dispair and Triumph====
 
 
 
People were being banned and unbanned and chaos reigned over the forums. Not just the Curia and staff but all the members were in revolt. The plan for the new forum was going smoothly until we hit legality issues with the database. In another sneaky trick [[Spirix]] registered TWH.com and put a redirect to TWC there to try and confuse people in finding the new site. Things were going down hill.
 
With HG in charge at TWC and legality problems with using the TWC database for the new site our plans stalled. Forum life was going back to normal and this did much good for HG's cause as a stable TWC meant he had won in taking over the forum and imposing his will over it. However when [[Archer]] and [[Meiyogen]] put us on a global ignore list known as 'Coventry' they amde a big mistake. TWC began to revolt again and the spamming of the forums began as [[Ozymandias]] and I incited people to spam the forum with the link to [[Archer's Plot]]. Then people began to be IP banned and in conjunction with [[imb39]] I was given permission to spam the link to the new forum. Using the account mafiaboss I opened 10 thread each containing the link to the new forum, they were soon deleted, but people had seen the link and soon began to spam it too. Satisfied TWC was at it's knees and knowing imb39 had an important msn meeting coming up with Ogre than night I went to bed. On waking up in the morning TWC was ours, with the chance to control and influence it's future.
 
 
 
=== The New Golden Age ===
 
 
 
Upon imb39 buying the site, it was clear this was to be the new Golden Era of TWC. So far this prediction has not been at all wrong.
 
 
 
== Quotes ==
 
 
 
''ON have given birth to a new doctrine in running a forum: 'stupidity' '' (In response to [[HG]] being appointed Administrator of [[TWC]])
 
 
 
''Offering moderating advice to someone sorely lacking in that field does not count as a rebellion.'' ([http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=79154 Source]) (In response to HG closing his threads on the moderating under the new regime)
 
 
 
== Criticisms ==
 
 
 
He has received one complaint about his moderating that was upheld, details can be found [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?p=1527499 here]. He apologised for the incident.
 
Some have criticised him for being too 'spammy', a claim jp does not disagree with. However jp believes there is a time for light-heartedness and a time for seriousness, but sometimes the lines get blurred.
 
  
 
== See Also ==
 
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*[[:category:House of Wilpuri|The House of Wilpuri]]
 
*[[:category:House of Wilpuri|The House of Wilpuri]]
  
[[Category:Moderator]]
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[[Category:Civitate]]
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{{People}}
[[Category:Patrician]]
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[[Category:Senator]]
 
 
[[Category: House of Wilpuri]]
 
[[Category: House of Wilpuri]]
 
[[Category:Senatorial Robe]]
 
[[Category:Senatorial Robe]]
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[[Category:Wiki Contributor]]
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[[Category:Perikles]]
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Latest revision as of 04:16, 1 May 2024




Perikles
Periklesavatar.gif

ex-Moderator of TWC

Badges/Roles:Civitate
Patron:imb39
Patron of:Goscinio, Kara Kolyo, burrek, MarcusCorneliusMarcellus, Candelarius, Rammstein and RTR Fan


Perikles was a moderator. (4 Aug 06 - 4 Sep 07)

TWC Moderator, CDC and ex-CoP member. Author of Archer's Plot.

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

History

  • Joined February 4, 2006
  • Became Civitate March 23, 2006
  • Elected to the Council of Peace June 21, 2006
  • Elected to the Consilium de Civitate for the first time July 13, 2006
  • Appointed Tribounos Moderator August 4, 2006
  • Appointed Patrician 30th August, 2006
  • Appointed Global Moderator
  • Resigned September 4, 2007.

The story of Perikles' short but eventful time at TWC

Beginnings

After joining in February 2006, Perikles became a regular of the Political Mudpit where he was noticed by a few members as being potential Civitate material. His mainly rightist ideology was shared by members such as Carach and the Black Prince, while he often debated agaisnt Shyam Popat and Ozymandias. He was eventually patronized by Ummon a month after joining, and joined the ranks of the Curia just before the April Fools Joke upon the members.

Summer 2006

After the ensuing crisis of alleged widespread use of PM's to canvass for votes he was controversially appointed a Moderator along with Evariste and Seleukos.

The Depression

Staff

October was the month of the Staff Rebellion against Archer. A letter called for his resignation from Imperator to either Hex or Staff or the general membership. TWC was in chaos (yet again and not for the last time). Archer had just demoted everyone and promoted HG to Hex ( this being the HG who then saw some unfavourable things about him in Hex, which had some bigger consequences for TWC down the line) along with Belisarius to Admin. Eventually after much arguing, all those who had been demoted, were repormoted, and HG and Belisarius (who eventually returned) 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

Besim

Perikles logged 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

Professor420 was quickly banned, Perikles 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 Perikles for dissenting! After some flames and trolls, Besim caved in and gave control of TWC back to Hex. Notably, HG reappeared during this episode.

Honor&Glory

It was 6 weeks since Besim and his activity had declined sharply. He found logging on a chore, let alone moderating or posting. Then he refeshed the main TWC Index and suddenly the Staff Forum and Curia were gone and to his utter amazement Richard the Lionheart had a bold purple name (One really can not understand how much of a surprise this was, Perikles' spat out his tea - haha). On joining the thread in the Suggestus he thought this was a joke, surely the most hated person on TWC was not really an admin, how wrong Perikles was. As more facts emerged people began to realise this was not a joke. Perikles was soon banned.

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