drake here, pitchin' in to that first point. spudo banned myself and several others for negative attitude. one of these was a friend (uuuuuugh) of darth. she made an account on st (and provoked others into doing the same); in retaliation (and in approximation of the actions of the few to the intent of the many, as spudo often does), spudo edited the chat to replace every message with "DUUUH", and taunted us. around this time i logged in with an alt and used a repurposed chat-interfacing app to spam it with messages. underestimating the obscene fragility of spudo's servers, i started to ramp up to as many requests as i was able to perform; this, of course, shut down the site. after realizing that i had actually done it personally (i hadn't been sending nearly as much traffic as i had believed would crash it, so i initially assumed that it was michos' doing), and after being notified by an anonymous informant that spudo was talking faeces about fhers behind our backs, i started to shut down other subdomains of his. it went on for about thirty minutes to an hour, at which point my sleep-deprivation-addled brain finally recognized the concept of "legal consequences" and i stopped.

on the second point, because i don't want to make another post, the guy's a prick. basically all of the Serious Antagonism he has recently (in the broad sense) received has been from me, and he seems absolutely hell-bent on using my sporadic insults to justify his raging kismesis to fighunter entire. i have no idea what your attraction to st is (a cursory glance at your profile registers "vaguely pretentious"), but my honest advice to you would be to GET THE FUCK AWAY RIGHT THIS SECOND. i literally cannot think of a single person who has ever been positively influenced by spudo, and the memeplex that hovers like a fetid musk around that site is hella harmful. imho you should *really* try to avoid absorbing any more of those ideas than is absolutely necessary. what savage said is absolutely correct; the site is a thinly-veiled vehicle for spudo's desires, and spudo's desires only. he could be charitably described as a predator; i would say that his vocal denunciation and categorization of people like that has made it far more easy for him to ignore the little signs that he himself is one of them.

i'm not going to talk about the entire "bigoted" thing, because that much should be patently obvious to anyone in the same plane of existence as him.

yeah, he makes pretty frequent allegations of sociopathy and/or other serious mental illnesses. i can remember multiple occasions where he's called me personally and explicitly a psychopath, and there was that discussion on st about "internet trolls" correlating with psychopathy (which is really not surprising, when you think about it, but which was treated as an absolute). his propensity to attach tags that he doesn't even remotely understand to people is really quite worrying.