As many know, I occasionally make the odd pivot animation ,and post it around for being to have a look at, so they can help me improve. There’s a lot of sites that I visit other than BridgeNinja, (and the forums) including Pivot_Forum, Pivot Animation, Darkdemon and ever so rarely HippiePivot. However, a recent even has caused a massive hatred of darkdemon (the biggest pivot forum on the internet) from the HippiePivot crowd. All because of a single user.

As most of the active members here know, a user called AustinD/Transparent/Austin (Not System) used to administrate these forums, and also visit most of the pivot sites that I myself visit. After a while though, he began phishing for user accounts on Darkdemon and got himself IP banned (as well as banned here too) for breaching the rules. So all was well and fine on DD and BN, but Transparent was busy off hacking HP (or so I’ve been told) without the knowledge of DD’s administrators. HP is now down, and there is a large loathing from the HP community for DD. Why? Misunderstanding.

What HippiePivot claim is that Darkdemon didn’t control their problematic user, and as a result that user ran over to their site and went crazy. The staff at Darkdemon however technically DID deal with the user by banning him, thus he was no longer a problem to them. This would’ve caused the HP members to be upset (they just lost their forum, and have been rejected help to get vengeance) and started to whinge on DD. By whinging, they would have irritated the staff, who lash out at the sad HP members. The HP members take this behaviour as suspicious, and consider that maybe Darkdemon had angled for HP to be hacked, thus the hate war was initiated.

My opinion? Darkdemon could have been more patient, and HippiePivot could have been less irritating. I of course, am not directly involved in this incident, so while I’m not as biased as some who ARE involved may be, I also don’t understand as much as someone part of this event may grasp. So if you feel like asking questions, or correcting my misinterpretations of the events, give us a comment. Because comments make me happy.