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You're not wrong. Saying that, would any of you go back and do it all again? Knowing you basically have to give up your life outside of RS to be a leader of a successful clan. Do you feel your time was a waste looking back on it now almost 10 (or 15 in Robs case) years later?

Generally speaking back then DI never really "recruited" people because people would just leave their clans for DI anyway. (Members did it yes but not leadership) We (Me and Flako IIRC) actually did go out of our way to recruit Rad and others though. I remember he had no interest in P2P but we eventually sold it to him. He'd probably rank within the top 10 most important people in DI.

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You can't all time rank. The game changed too much.

Shame really that it took so long and came too late. The launch of RS2 with the introduction of multi combat wilderness was a real opportunity to make the game about clans. The "golden era" was long over by time clans started to get recognition. Game seems to be very much about solo playing now. Maybe there's a lot more revenue in that.

Hey Mat, been a while. Hope you're doing well. I remember back when wilderness was removed you reached out to me to try get feedback on what the community wanted. We talked a few times and if I remember it right you told me there wasn't a lot of interest or support in jagex for clans back then. Around the start of OSRS you reached out to me and other clan leaders to try work with us but nothing ever really came of it. I seem to remember there being some sort of conversation among us clan leaders but it pretty much turned into leaders just flaming each other (don't think you were involved in this conversation). I guess my question is that it seemed like you always wanted to do something for clans, but nothing ever came of it. Was this because of how "toxic" jagex perceived the clan community as being? Is that why the 2017 (?) jcup never ended up happening?

I always liked TT and thought they were a respectable clan. We messed up the first jcup final badly though. Us losing was a bigger story than TT winning.

1. In a way I don't want to be remembered. "When you're gone, you're gone". Obviously though people are always going to remember me, either as a friend or an enemy. People might not of liked the way I walked away, people might not of liked the way I treated them. I've done some "dirty" stuff. I only ever did what was best for my clan. If people were to remember me, I'd like to think it would be as a person who enabled them to have a lot of fun in what would otherwise be a boring game. DI's influence played a large part in shaping the clan world in the early days of RS2 and a lot of what you see even now is a result of that. I guess by extension people are going to associate me with a lot of that, but it wasn't all me. 2. Not to be arrogant about it or anything but it's hard to argue there was a more important clan leader than me during the original era, mainly due to longevity and how long DI stayed at the top of our game. For me when I was young Livinlarge21 was always up there. The way he ran RSD influenced the way I ran DI. He always kept things honourable and his made sure his members were respectable. 3. Nope. Obviously when I was younger my parents knew I was up all night playing some game etc, but not who I was or what I was doing. 4. Coke 5. While I've already shared a lot of stories, I've probably forgotten more than I've shared. Back in the day we did a lot of crazy shit. Like the time Ekaggen (and Bronxie) broke into a building and "recovered" then server DI forums were running on after the hosting company went bust. Since this AMA is coming to close soon and these are probably the last major questions I'll be asked I guess I'll say this. A lot of people thought over the years I'm a heartless bastard who didn't care for anyone or anything other than my clan. Even though I've been around a long long time, only 2 or 3 people have actually gotten to know the real me and they'll probably tell you I'm a lot a different than that.

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In: Geezer Out: Won't spoil it but we both know who

We moved to paid forums in 2006 because of the limitations of invisionfree. So the current ones have been around from 2006-2017, 2020-. The activity towards the end was still somewhat there, at least compared to other clan forums. In the original era we were doing roughly 60k posts a month. Towards the end of the OSRS around 10k posts a month. They actually stayed quite active while DI was closed, probably more active than towards the end of the OSRS era. I didn't take them down then because although I was leaving the game, I wasn't leaving the community as such. A bit hard to understand for people who weren't active users but the "off topic" community was bigger than the actual DI runescape community back then. The second time I left RS there was no "off topic" community on the forums, just the DI runescape community, so they would of died very quickly. It was never about money for me because I was always out of pocket for them (+TS etc) during OSRS, but I also didn't feel like paying for something no one was using. It isn't costing me anything to have them up at the moment.

Well ours was "DI till I die" but we just didn't really put it in banners etc.

It might of been Ran Shadow2. I'm like 99% certain he made this one So he probably made that one too. It would of been made in 2006. I prefer the "classic" one but prefer to use the skin with that banner instead of classic. I think we did update them at one stage but people preferred the old ones.

In the original era probably not. Our influence on the clan world back then was massive, much more so now than RoT had in the OSRS era. If I had been more lenient or allowed us to get "dirty", crashing every fight etc we could of destroyed the clan world, but it wasn't something I was ever interested in. I wanted the clan world to thrive. When wilderness was removed I worked with MMK and all other leaders to try come to a solution. If I could go back to the start of the OSRS I would probably of done things differently in terms of who I appointed at the start for the most part and taken things a bit slower. Built on better foundations if you will. Building based on nostalgic feelings probably wasn't the best idea. For sure it was the right time to close because of people (including myself) getting tired. I didn't have it in me to set out on a complete rebuild with a new generation. Flako, Rad, Tomisme, they were all getting tired. Obviously if OSRS never came out I would of never reopened DI. The main reason I did was because I wanted everyone to have fun again, even if it was just going to be one more time. I listen to all kinds of music. Probably the stuff I've been listening to mostly in the last few years is late 80s/90s deep house or club stuff. Always love an 80s banger though. The older I get the more I find myself leaning towards the right. When you've worked all your life and see other people who get everything for free without doing a days then it's hard not to be. Me and FreDDe have been good friends for a long long time. After I quit RS the first time we played WoW together etc. Haven't talked to him as much in recent years. The stuff about him like having 1000 rune sets from pking was true. He's the kind of guy who could be really good at any game he wanted to be. Got lots of realm firsts when he was playing WoW hardcore He's a funny guy, but quiet. Believe he's after getting married now (not to Mimihansson before someone older asks).

Something that's often "overlooked" is that when I became leader of DI I was still only 16 and most people in DI were older than me. Some people there were 20+. If you're that age you're hardly going to respect some 16 year old telling you what to do. Obviously at that age I had no experience of leadership so I wouldn't say I had a certain "style" coming into it. I did a lot of "learning on the job" and made plenty of mistakes. The style I developed was probably because of the way I became leader and my early experiences in DI. I basically took over running of the clan as an ordinary member when leadership dipped. Then leadership got active again and I was treated badly (overlooked for promotion, not given credit for what I'd done to keep the show on the road). Because of that I sort of became the "people's champion" if you will. Anyone that disliked leadership started backing me. Based on that I think my style was that I was always "one of the lads". It's like being able to be friends with your boss at work. People knew they could mess around and I'd be fine with it. I think people knew how to run stuff without much direct guidance from me because they knew how I'd like it to be done. Perhaps I had a strong influence on them. I wouldn't say my general approach was different in the different era's, just that in the OSRS era I was much less able to be hands on and people were probably less influenced by me because of that and therefore ended up trying to do their own things (which I'd say we saw a lot of). The advice I'd give is make sure you're always approachable to everyone. Make it seem that you can relate to them. Be prepared to lose friends. You've gotta be ruthless. You're right those letters are where or near where they used teach people to put their fingers when learning to type, but it's just a coincidence,

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Maybe we did fight? Might be a bit later than you were thinking of though.

Yea Christopher. Absolute child of the highest order. Tried to threat me with leaking logs etc after I wouldn't give him retired rank.

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In the early days all that mattered really was being active. Not in order of when or how bad but some I can think of that just weren't that good at being officials, Jeremy Carr, A L I, Zymth, Insertname, Agentjags, Suffocate V, Dawbg3 Start of OSRS again was the same thing really, some bad ones were D156 cause of how awkward it was to work with him, ximm cause he just wasn't active in the community, kaochinx obvious reasons. Guggiey tried really hard but never worked out for the guy, felt kinda bad for him.

I mean there was almost deafening screams the other day lol Not all that talkative really unless I've had a few drinks

To be honest we never did anything that impressive in terms of getting spies. In the olden days people would just come to DI and "offer their services" for a chance to get in. During OSRS bball was in DF for a bit on some account, can't remember the name now. Think you caught him fairly rapid though.