“Good, i'll leave it to you to have fun going on destruction over there - give no warning, just do it. Only you and hailrazer are aware of this (ie yesterday's chat), although only you have the passwords for their FTP. If you attack, bring them right down; if they reinstall and have to upload an old database it will cause them pain!” ~Bacteria
“[1:59:44 PM] John (aka Bacteria): Did you bring the site down?
[12:00:05 AM] John (aka Bacteria): I got accused, nothing to do with me though!
[12:00:15 AM] John (aka Bacteria): Not shedding a tear it is down.
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Why am I doing this? Here is the bottom line: Bacteria and his site have attacked both MR and me personally ever since he left ModRetro, and guess what? I am the one who has to deal with the fallout. I continually have to put up with drama, the accusations, and the “omg u guyz are such haterz” comments, and all the while, I have been VERY low key. Whenever we get attacked, I play it off as site bugs. Whenever we get damning logs of things MBB members have said, I order the staff to not make it public. Despite continual, aggravated, and proven attacks from Bacteria, with logs to back it up, I have refused to take any of it public, because that would be stooping to his level. In light of recent events, I have no choice but to show WHY, exactly, ModRetro as an entity is so hostile towards ModdedByBacteria. MBB members, if you keep reading, you will be very surprised at what you see.
http://moddedbybacteria.freeforums.org/
http://moddedbybacteria.wordpress.com/
TL;DR of the text below? It can be summed up as: Bacteria is a skilled modder with hypocritical morals, fond of empty grandstanding against things that he himself is guilty of doing, including the actions below, and we have plenty of proof if you scroll down a bit.:
-Multiple attacks on ModRetro, including trying to wipe our entire server, backups and all
-Giving away private ModRetro information to other people to aid him in his attacks
-Giving tips to members and staff of his site on how to evade being caught in attacks on MR
-Supporting the vandalization of the MR wiki with pornographic material by a MBB staff member
-Supporting the release of PalmerTech’s personal information by the same staff member
-Directing MBB staff to spy on MR members by making multiple fake accounts to evade bans
-Slander and libel, notably the false accusation that ModRetro logs user passwords
-Denying all of these allegations, to the point of making up entire stories to prove his innocence
-There are lots of other small irks, but nothing worth writing about
Let us go in rough chronological order:
1. Bacteria Leaves ModRetro
This topic has been talked to death, but here is a recap:
Bacteria left his position as administrator on MR by choice, due to difference between him and the staff. The only way he was willing to stay was under the condition of ShockSlayer being demoted from his own position as Administrator and MR co-founder, with no chance to ever be promoted back. This was not something I could do, so Bacteria left quietly and without a fuss, just as he promised he would
Oh wait, he did not! He actually made a big announcement thread where he raged about ModRetro, and then abused the PHPBB mass PM feature (Which we had never used before, nor used since) to send a PM and email to EVERY SINGLE MEMBER, over 1000 people, with a several paragraph long explanation of why we had “forced” him to leave ModRetro. He did this with no prior warning or permission.
He then demanded that we delete his profile, and all of his posts and threads from ModRetro. Problem is, he had several thousand posts, it would have screwed up hundreds of threads. I told him that was not an option, and he threatened us with legal action, over “copyright violation”. Luckily, the law does not work that way, so nothing actually happened. We did change his old username to something else, though, to “preserve” his good name, or something like that.
2. Bacteria’s bumbling butthurt blow against MR bombastically backfires
When Bacteria left, he did not forget about MR. In fact, despite his claims that he had moved on, he must have been pretty upset at being rejected by a group of teenage nerds! I will skip the BS and cut to the chase: Bacteria had an FTP account when he was an admin, which we deleted when he left MR. However, we forgot that he also knew my own (PalmerTech) FTP login info. Bacteria gave this info away to people on his site and directed them to wipe out our server, corrupt our backups, and vandalize the site. For fairness, here is how Bacteria claimed everything happened (What actually happened is afterwards):
It is a really nice story, but for lack of a better term, the only thing to call it is bullflax. Bacteria TOLD people to attack us, KNEW about the attacks while they were happening, and CONGRATULATED them immediately afterwards. DNT has since apologized for his actions, realizing that they were wrong, and was also kind enough to hand over a big, fat stack of PMs and Skype logs he had, talking with Bacteria. So much incrimination, so little space! Here are the gems:
Reply from DNT:
Reply from Bac (Note: Hailrazer was not in on this, he was actually kind enough to warn us, but it was too late by the time he did. Not sure how he rationalizes being an MBB moderator, though. Anyways:
What an absolutely colossal dick. That is right, ladies and gentlemen, he was willing to, unprovoked, wipe out more than a year of posts on MR, made by over a thousand members, with tens of thousands of man hours worth of guides and tutorials... Because of a several month old grudge against two people. I repeat, a colossal dick move. Ooooh, lets see what happens now! Bac and DNT moved to Skype to discuss the ongoing attack:Message subject: Re: site stopped
Folder: Inbox
Good, i'll leave it to you to have fun going on destruction over there - give no warning, just do it. Only you and hailrazer are aware of this (ie yesterday's chat), although only you have the passwords for their FTP. If you attack, bring them right down; if they reinstall and have to upload an old database it will cause them pain!
Luckily, I have logs of those, too! Let us skip the BS and get right to the point:
[12/19/2009 9:54:26 PM] Charles Laing (DNT): Bacterium
[12/19/2009 9:54
[12/19/2009 9:58:25 PM] Charles Laing (DNT): got rid of their crap ass backups too
[12/19/2009 11:59:44 PM] John (aka Bacteria): Did you bring the site down?
[12:00:05 AM] John (aka Bacteria): I got accused, nothing to do with me though!
[12:00:15 AM] John (aka Bacteria): Not shedding a tear it is down.
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Huh? That is so weird, I thought that Bacteria said he had no idea about the attacks, and that he was furious with DNT for going through with them? Oh, wait, I forgot that we are dealing with a hypocritical liar. Silly me! I have actually given Bacteria several chances to admit this via emails we have exchanged where I accused him, but because I never showed him any proof, he insisted that he did not know about or approve of the attack.
Look, if Bac wants to claim all kinds of falsehoods about me, act like an arrogant asshole, and generally make a fool of himself, that is fine by me. But wiping out a massive community over a personal grudge? What is this, kindergarten? The ONLY reason we got MR is back is because Klaymator and DNT had a change of heart, and against Bac’s orders, they had made a backup of our server before wiping it. Thank God, they gave it back to us, we would have lost more than two months since the last backup! Bacteria was perfectly happy with that scenario, though. *Can'tSayThisOnTV* you, Bacteria.
3. Bacteria/Raizer vandalized our wiki
Raizer, a longtime moderator and staff member on ModdedByBacteria, decided to vandalize our wiki. Here is an excerpt from message I sent to Bacteria about it:
See, the funny thing is, Bacteria actually left the BenHeck forums because of an incident with some similarities. Triton, a moderator on BH, made a signature with the letters “LOTWRDB” (League of those who rather dislike Bacteria). Bacteria insisted that it was hate speech, and that because Triton represented the BH community as a moderator, he should be demoted. Here is a link to a fantastic thread about it:
http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php ... lit=triton
However, when one of his own moderators posts pornographic materials on our wiki, wipes out hundreds of hours of hours of work of innocent community members, and releases my personal information, what does Bac do? He approves. He tells Raizer that what he did is hilarious, does not punish him, deletes several posts that call for his demotion, and has him make a mock apology. He also tells him that he needs to avoid getting caught next time. The hypocrisy is truly staggering.
Why did Raizer feel the sudden need to attack us, you ask? Well, turns out he had a spy account on ModRetro that Bacteria told him to make, and his feelings got hurt when I insulted him in MY chatroom, on a site where he is banned, for banning me without reason on MBB.
Oh, you guys want proof of everything I just said? Well, I have none to give you, I am sorry. However, I stake my honor, my word, and the integrity of my entire name on all of the facts above being true. Who are you going to trust, me, or Bacteria?
4. Bacteria Loudly Lays Libelous Accusations
Basically, Bacteria claims that ModRetro somehow logs passwords via PHPBB ACP. Unfortunately for him, this is actually impossible, but it sure is funny that he thinks it is!
This is simply not true. Like, at all. Not only is it IMPOSSIBLE to log passwords with ACP (It does not even make sense), but MR does not utilize any means to record any private user data. Jleemero, a member of MR, DID use Zenloc’s account, but that was an independant action, I had nothing to do with it. That had nothing to do with ModRetro in any way, shape or form, it was a PHPBB3 exploit that could have been used on literally any site.
Want to know something crazy? There is even MORE stuff that Bacteria has done under the moddedbybacteria banner, but the stuff above is the most relevant. Bacteria is a lying hypocrite who claims he is all for peace, treating others well, and “letting go of the past”, but the fact of the matter is that he is an egotist of the worst kind, who does not care the slightest bit about the community at large, and would trample all over it for the sake of boosting his ego.
