Yoto32

Hey W! 

My question is simple. I have you added on Facebook. You're a good looking dude. How have you been, and how do you pick your outfits? Anything you're excited about in the coming year?

Hey all, thanks for the questions. PM me if you have any questions about Zybez or if you just want to catch up.

1 hour ago, true said:

What mods do you suspect used their mod powers to help/aid their own clan?

I don't remember any specific names outside of robinhoodrs or Jim so I don't want to slander anybody, so I'll just tell what our policy on that was. Any mods that we suspected abused their mod powers were put on probation while we investigated the situation and cleared their name. This was done by putting a member mask on them so they still appeared as a mod but couldn't access their powers. If we weren't absolutely sure they were innocent, we would ask them to step down and they would be set to hmem.

On 7/1/2021 at 7:44 AM, Yorick said:

Good to hear from you man. Saw you at myth guild a while ago but was too late to catch up. Hope all goes well IRL. Was a pleasure to work with you on Zybez as CD staff. 👍🏻

Hey Yorick, great to hear from you! We should catch up now! To flip this AMA around, let me ask you this- what did you enjoy about being a mod? How did you like dealing with clannies? What made you stick through it long enough to become a mod?

21 hours ago, true said:

What rivalry was most annoying to mod?

DF vs Corr but I didn't moderate much when I became an admin

16 hours ago, Adam_ said:

Who were the most toxic/obnoxious individuals you dealt with ?

 

Is there anyone who isn't around in the community anymore who you wish was?

 

 

1. Maurice05 in terms of obnoxiousness, PkPete in terms of personal toxicity, but that was outside the clan boards

2. Honestly, Saddamph or however you spell his name. I felt like he and NH were a necessary, healthy counterculture to the whole "honor" mentality of the clan world. I did like being part of a clan world that had honorable fights but in the end it was the wilderness where anything goes. And compared to how no-honor evolved to ddossing and doxxing, it was downright tame.

8 hours ago, S3lvah said:

Thanks for your reply! PMed you some stuff. The timezones of clans have been a point of contention in combination with the last man standing mentality. Some clans developed vehement relationships because, e.g., the EST clan would just keep returning until the GMT clan would have to dip due to it being past midnight for them or something, and the EST clan would claim the win even with way more deaths than kills. It forced clans in earlier timezones to adapt and reject what had become the Zybez / clan scene consensus definition of a victory and just make do with a good few hours' performance.

 

Another funny case illustrating this was when Fools (a GMT country clan) one time decided to just commit to fighting through the night – we later heard our opponent (VR) had kept telling their members: "Just keep returning, they'll leave soon, it's 1 AM for them" "2 AM" "3 AM" ... until they finally gave up at 7 AM our time.

I mean the whole politics view of timezones in the clan world made sense sense when fights were more compact, distinct fights that had a clear beginning and end. It definitely became obsolete as the fights dragged out to multi-hour affairs. We definitely should have been better at recognizing that each individual person behind the screen had a life outside of clans and likely had better things to be doing with their time.

5 hours ago, S3lvah said:

Hi, Yoto – I remember your name from my time posting (was active sporadically between 2005 and closure) and brief tenure as a CD CL.

 

What's your opinion on the CD topic rights system – do you think it influenced what the clan world considered a victory, or vice versa?

 

Do you think the definition of a victory put clans in earlier timezones (e.g., GMT) at a disadvantage? If so, should something have been done about it?

 

What's your personal opinion on clans choosing to fight for a certain time frame and then dipping even if they outperformed for that duration – do you regard it as a loss or as upholding standards different than "last men standing?"

Hey there! Was was your board name, I'm pretty good at remembering the names of CLs once I see them but S3lvah doesn't ring a bell atm. Whoever you are you must know me pretty well because those are all questions I had strong opinions on.  I think I'll answer all your questions in one long, rambling paragraph.

When I was an admin, I used to believe that CD did not influence the clan world and was simply a neutral ground to post rights. At the beginning of the clan scene, this was true. Clan officials would recognize when their clan was being outclassed and voluntarily concede and leave the wilderness, leaving a clear victor. This is what the "last clan standing" rule was based off of, the good faith of the participants to not waste everybody's time. At some point, this good faith eroded. Clans were no longer willing to just throw in the towel and would stay longer and longer. A combination of factors contributed to it: rune sets became cheaper and cheaper, easier and easier to come by as money making methods became better and better. No longer were clans bound the amount of rune sets each individual member could afford. Clan members were more willing to stick out for longer fights and not just dip out, perhaps because many of us were in college and could finally set our own hours. I might be biased but I've always felt that the power vacuum left by DS helped contribute to the decline too: without an undisputed #1 clan no clan would want to admit defeat and lose their shot at being #1 in the eyes of the community. And, of course, being able to claim a win on Zybez on their "last clan standing" rules also was likely a large factor. Not the only factor, but a contributing factor nonetheless.

I really disliked how the clan community devolved into a "last man standing" mentality. I always felt like there were better ways to determine who won a fight: who had better organization, better shotcalling, brought more people. There's no shame in being the bigger person and leaving if the opposing clan is being obstinate. But on the moderating side, how else could you prove it? Clan fights are inherently chaotic events. There's no way to tell who has the better organization or shot calling after the fact just by a few pictures, and requiring video proof wasn't feasible, especially for smaller clans who might not have anybody who knew how to do it. And no mod would spend their time going through hours long clan fight videos to see who they thought won. The game certainly didn't track in the wilderness how each clan was doing. And we used the good faith of the community as an indicator for victory for as long as we could, but at some point it just wasn't tenable anymore.

As for the timezone question, nah we didn't consider that. Yes, the timezone a clan was in did matter but in our view that was just the politics of the clan world: could you get a clan to fight you in a favorable time zone or not. 
 

2 hours ago, Ace said:

What were your favorite sub-forums on Zybez outside of those in CD?

 

What sort of forum sections do you believe that any forum should have?

 

Back when Zybez used to hold Q/As of their own, which was your favorite?

 

You played a lot of RS3 for a bit(lots of Araxxor kills). Do you still play? Do you play OSRS at all?

1. Ngl I always wanted to be a CL of General chat. :$ But I did have a soft spot for Achievements, and guessing from your araxxor comment you probably remember from my achievements post. I like browsing /r/ironscape for that reason too. I probably spent the most amount of time outside CD in the Off Topic board but that place was a cesspool.

2. I kinda like IRL boards. People posting pics of themselves or what they're doing, to show everybody there's a real person behind the keyboard. Helps humanize each other.

3. You mean the ones with the Duck? Mine 😉 

4. When Telos came out I worked really hard to beat him at 100% to try and get my completionist cape back, but I was never able to do it. That sorta demotivated me and for probably like 3 years all I did was log into rs3 to do my dailies like POPs and sandstone. Two years ago I started an iron in osrs and I have not logged into my rs3 account since then. Although I'll still log into its osrs counterpart for TOB splits 😛 

12 minutes ago, Noble Inc said:

Seemed to have gotten under the skin of some clans, account got hacked and got demoted..... 😅

Ahh yes I remember now. I was hacked before too and it only slightly delayed my promotions. Top brass got a lot more strict about hackings in your time than they were in mine, but iirc you were hacked on multiple occasions.

11 minutes ago, Howl said:

Did you ever wish Jagex would work more closely with the clan world?

I mean yea, the clan world is obviously really big and keeps a lot of players invested in the game. A few jmods would come on to zybez to interact with the clan world and we gave them hmem status.

9 minutes ago, true said:

@Yoto32 without doxing yourself, what can you tell us about you IRL? 

I'm a straight, cis, white male. I currently work at a patent law office. Fun fact: I got this job because of RSC. When I was in high school I had no idea what I wanted to go to college for. I took honors chemistry as a senior in high school and DB75 was a freshman in college, also studying the same material. We would help each other study and one day he told me I was good at it so I should study chemistry. So, I did. And the only reason my boss interviewed me for this position was because I had a degree in chemistry.

1 minute ago, Krystal said:

I vaguely remember doing some dungeons with him back then but we weren't in the same guild or anything. I do see him logged into Battlenet sometimes so I'll see if I can get his attention and will reference this AMA to try to get him over here haha. 

Yea do it! I'm pretty sure his rsn is now Venteus and I've seen him online sometimes, but I might be wrong.

12 hours ago, Kim said:

Not sure if anyone asked this but since you were once the leader of the CD, was there any important decisions that you had to take? If so, what were the decisions? 

I pretty much single handedly made the decision of auto-merging contested fights using a pre-written staff's post. At that time making a decision as to who won a fight was a huge headache for any staff member. The proof that a clan won a fight was never clear: ending pics could be taken at any time in the fight and short of requiring video proof or staff physically being present at the fight it was impossible to tell who was really left standing, or if they thought they won and then left and their opponent came back. And of course no matter what decision you made you'd have the losing clan arguing and whining that you're making the wrong call and how dare you be so biased. It was seriously affecting staff morale and as a purely voluntary position, why would someone voluntarily subject themselves to that sort of abuse and harassment? We were going through staff faster than they can replace them, because there were always less and less new posters we could try out as the clan world became more and more inbred. So I led the discussion with the CD admin team, the CD staff, and the Kings and we all agreed to have a blanket policy of leaving that decision up to the clan community rather than have a CD staff member decide who won and who didn't.

I also was a big advocate of third-party posting, as more and more clan boycotted posting on RSC. Activity on the board was dwindling and I felt that was the best way to get people to continue posting on the boards, even if it meant it would be used for trolling purposes.

17 hours ago, true said:

What RSC staff needed their ass kicked?

 

Thoughts on Scoobyninja? He was a non-clan world homie I met via RSC and he was cool as shit.

 

What is the worst case of sucking up for promotion?

 

Thoughts on Molson?

 

 

 

1. Aragon and Tmal34

2. He was a nice guy, Achievements mod if I recall. Typically the non-CD mods were all generally nice people, outside of CD RSC was a much different place. There was always an unspoken rule that non-CD mods would stay out of CD affairs unless someone was posting porn or something. You really needed to understand CD culture in order to make proper decisions so Brad/Tha Hanzz really hammered it in the early days that non clannies were to stay out of CD, and that mentality stuck the rest of the years.

3. So mod actions were tracked in the admin panel and we would usually gauge a mod or CL's activity based on their mod count. Not going to name names (because it's been awhile and I don't want to get it wrong) but at one point there was a CL who would delete posts individually instead of as a group, which would give ~3x the normal mod actions.

4. Molson's the type of guy who would barge into a space like he owned the place, and more often than not that would be the case. For some reason I felt like he didn't really like me all that much. 

16 hours ago, true said:

What non-RS games do you like to play?

Got to plat in League of Legends and I usually hover around mid gold, but I haven't played it since the pandemic started. I'm still an avid player of Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons.

15 hours ago, Adam_ said:

Was there ever any cases of you turning a blind eye to things you'd normally address because you didn't feel like dealing with it?

Yea one time I shouted lyrics of "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield at a RoT official cause I wanted to do homework instead of dealing with RSC stuff. Dealing with aggrieved clannies was always a headache. Sometimes people would give me an IP they already knew about from their boards and ask me to check if it matched with anyone on RSC, which for the most part I would do but would sometimes ignore if they had been pestering me too much.

15 hours ago, Clark Kent said:

Just out of curosity do you still remain in contact with DB75?

Unfortunately no. I tried reaching out to him a couple of times on WoW but the chemistry just wasn't there anymore. Haven't talked to him in awhile. I know Krystal played hella amount of WoW with him after they left RS so she would know better.

15 hours ago, Noble Inc said:

Good seeing you around Yoto. I had enjoyed my staff run on Zybez. What were your thoughts on me as a CD staff member?

Hey Noble, good to see you too! My impression of you was that you were someone who really wanted to prove yourself. My memory is a little hazy but wasn't there some drama around you? 

1 hour ago, Ace said:

There's been several attempts at creating other hotspots for rs pvp clan discussion over the years. The pures had two such sites such as Pure WarFare, and later Sharkbrew which they currently use now(which is also the main hotspot for clans currently if you're going to post on a site). 

 

What are your thoughts on those sites, along with other sites such as Tip.it and Sal's clan discussion forums?

 

Also, currently some former clan mates of mine have created a discord called Hub for PvP clans. It's mainly for shit posting and flaming, but it also provides channels that auto-update with clan videos, twitter updates and clan fight topics. What do you think of this idea? Do you have any suggestions or advice you'd offer them?

1. Tip.it was a good example of why unbiased moderating is so important: they lost the trust of the clan community early on because of biased moderation and never could earn that reputation back. As much as people liked to complain about it, I really believe that RSC's moderators were fair and unbiased (with some notable exceptions that slipped through the cracks). We took biased mod allegations seriously and I think it showed.

2. Sounds like a great idea to me! Discord is a very popular platform for gamers. My advice would be this: be sure to draw strict boundaries between which channels are alright for shitposting and flaming, have an absolutely zero tolerance policy on irl insults, and to be absolutely sure to have unbiased moderators. There needs to be a vetting process for the people you promote and their actions should be reviewed. Often it's a good idea to give someone a little bit of power and see how they handle it. There will always be people looking out for a power trip of some sort or to feel special, even on something as minor as an OSRS clan shitpost server. Oh and that politics and gaming will always be a mess.

29 minutes ago, true said:

What were your thoughts on @Lego?

Honestly never really interacted with the guy all that much to form an opinion of him. He was a little before my time on the RSC boards.

28 minutes ago, Flukejiver said:

What were Weeman's strengths and weaknesses as a mod?

WM's greatest strength as an admin was that he was actively engaged in the clan world and very knowledgeable about it, which was something that was always sorely lacking in the admin position (see: myself). His biggest weakness I'd say is... public relations.

27 minutes ago, Flukejiver said:

Would you ever consider clanning again?

Yea a number of times, but when I'm ready to be able to commit.

2 hours ago, Applerune said:

Being a staff member was WAY too political for me, and this is coming from someone who handled almost all of the behind the scenes political clanning type stuff for COR. I am very much a relationship person and really enjoyed getting to know people but the people at RSC were only ever out for themselves. I was never the type of clan official to "hate" other clans or people in the game and I was never a big fan of RSC in general. I tried to get along and build relationships with everyone no matter their clan, past actions, etc. This irked a lot of people in COR, but this was one value I would not budge on. 

 

I was mod of the recruiting forum IIRC. At one point I did make a concerted effort to post meaningfully and with intention because I felt RSC (and really, the clan world in general) needed that. Once I was given a small role I realized there weren't many people like that in the community so I stopped caring. I also never wanted to give the impression to people in COR that I cared about RSC more than the clan, something I felt other clan members and officials did regularly. I also didn't want to weaponize any sort of standing I could gain with RSC if I continued to do the work like I felt others did. 

 

Never thought I'd be mentioned here - thanks for doing the AMA!

 

Edit: the above reasons are probably what gave you the inclination that I'd be a good moderator - I was similar to Jaacco in that regard. A little more outgoing than him for sure, but similar in values.

Often the best leaders are the ones that don't want the position 😉  But you made the decision that was best for you and I respect that.

2 hours ago, true said:

What are some additional clan sections/sub forums you think CD should have had?

 

What were the most useless subforums?

 

How often were you tempted to break Zybez rules youself?

 

 

1. Shitposting meme board.

2. The UN. Honestly it was just a board so clan leaders could feel good about themselves.

3. Honestly never, which was my problem. I'm the sort of guy who always believes in following the rules and I have trouble recognizing when the rules don't lead to justice.

1 hour ago, true said:

Do you miss being a main? 

Hell no. My time as an iron has been the most fun I've had on Runescape in my whole life - including the 08 gwd trips. Every item in my bank I earned myself and I have a sense of accomplishment about it. Every item upgrade is a huge boost, and the game mode forces you play content you wouldn't otherwise have. Right now I'm grinding out the KQ cause I need a dragon chainbody for a master clue - no way I would be killing the boss for any other reason. Although it helps that I was spooned as hell on this account 😛

5 hours ago, Flukejiver said:

Who was the best forum mod you’ve ever worked with?

 

Is there anyone you wish you would have made a mod?

1. Jaacco was by far and away the best moderator I worked with. Always level headed and fair, great interpersonal skills. Was glad he was made King.

2. Applerune would have made a great moderator 

2 hours ago, Amulet said:

What were your inital thoughts on Zybez closing? 

Lot of mixed emotions, it was a board I had basically spent my formative teenage years on and where I socialized. It was because of that board that I got into the career I'm in now. It was always my "old stomping ground" where I could go back to. But at the same time it was a dying board, nowhere near the activity it had in its heyday. Every day I would log on and there'd be like four or five people on and no new posts for me to browse or answer back. And it was probably time for me to move on from the board anyways. So bittersweet I suppose.
 

39 minutes ago, true said:

Thoughts on Sals?

They had a clan board???

16 hours ago, true said:

Do you view any clan forums?

 

Thoughts on EOS?

 

What non-staff RSC users do you feel like could have been great staff?

1. Not regular. Just this one if True pesters me enough about it.

2. Just remember them as a more serious version of Adelais. 

3. Any non-staff RSC users we felt had potential were made into staff. We would put people in the Great Hall first to see if they could stay active on their own, and to get them involved in the behind-the-scenes discussion to get acclimated as to how things worked. I will say that throughout the years His Lordship was consistently brought up as a potential staff member but was always denied because we felt he would be more interested in grandstanding than modding.

14 hours ago, Adam_ said:

As staff did you ever find members of certain clans or even ranks making threats for one reason another (moderating them too hard / not moderating competition / not granting them special privileges/whatever)? If yea who and why?

 

How did you catch robinhoodrs leaking IPs? 

1. RoT was always the worst/best at pestering mods to get favorable rulings. Can't remember any specific names unfortunately.

2. I was not involved with how they caught robinhoodrs, that was before my time. I just know that's why he was banned.

12 hours ago, Wee Man said:

What happened with Aragon? I remember him getting demoted/removed or whatever but I don't think we ever got a proper explanation of what happened. I can only assume he got on the wrong persons nerves lmao.

 

You should join Tempest, super laid back so you can still play your iron. 

I'm not too sure myself but IIRC he was promoted to Smod for non-CD purposes with the express condition that his rank status did not transfer over to CD (i.e. he was not part of the CD hierarchy). I'm pretty sure he crossed Molson one too many times.

1. Don't tempt me Hug Jugs.

19 minutes ago, Lavigne said:

Honestly I think we were fair, if you asked to get unbanned after you let some time pass, it was rarely denied providing you didn't hack, scam (without repayment), ddos etc. It's more I already had that chance and blew it hence why I did it again lol.

 

I definitely have you, W13, Suox and Jacko to credit with keeping me on the straight and narrow and improving.

That was the new system. At the start it was ban evading = banned for life.

And I'm glad I was a positive influence on you! That's what I loved about Zybez, the mentoring roles and bringing up new generations.

24 minutes ago, true said:

Who were the top 5 worst CD staff ever and why?

I'm not gonna throw my peeps under the bus like that but I will say because we're on good terms now that I butted heads with Aragon the most. He was very stubborn.

13 minutes ago, Vanzant said:

You were always unbiased about the greatness of The BlacKnights ty

Yes, my original top 5 like was BK listed 5 times but thought that would be obvious.

50 minutes ago, Adam_ said:

what clans are you surprised still exist?

 

what clans are you surprised are gone?

 

what clans do you think could come back and do reasonably well in this age of clanning?

 

have you considered even briefly in the osrs era joining a clan again? if you were to join one, what clan?

 

 

1+2. I don't really know any new clan, but it really surprised me how long DI lasted. Hard to imagine they died.
3. DS can always come back and smash change my mind.
4. Yea, I thought about it, when I get bored of my iron. Did a couple fights with Tempest, might join this one considering this is where all my friends are.
 

37 minutes ago, true said:

Do you ever read SB?

I watch Strong Bad Emails all the time.

2 minutes ago, true said:

Thoughts on @Wee Man?

 

Thoughts on Billy Boi?

 

 

ngl Wee Man lasted a long longer ias Zybez staff than I thought he would be. I didn't think he would be the type of person who would really like the job, but he proved me wrong!

Billy was my boi, we rose through the CD ranks the same time together, although I took so long he retired by the time I got to mod.

54 minutes ago, Lavigne said:

Lmaoooo

 

Yeah, we had a post of shooting the shit in the CLs section just before Zybez closed down for good where I admitted (since obviously I wasn't going to get punished for it by that point) that I'd actually been ban evading and just somehow never got caught despite being -3'd within a couple months of creating that account. The only reason that one never got permed too was somehow after having what was probably a total of -9 over 3 accounts by that point, I decided to grow up I guess lol.

Yea honestly we were definitely too strict with the ban evading stuff. Clearly ban evaders wanted to be part of the community, I woulda been fine unbanning/rebanning the trolls and give the people who actually cared and changed their ways like yourself a second chance.

46 minutes ago, Adam_ said:

do you feel the addition of the trading post (lol) and then eventually the ge contributed at all to zybez downfall? 

No, the absence of the ge during osrs's initial launch just prolonged the inevitable. Props to No1 for recognizing the void and coding the solution until they  put in the ge.

45 minutes ago, true said:

what were some heavily forced RSC rules that you hated/disagreed with?

I mean, ya'll probably coulda handled swearing.

39 minutes ago, true said:

In your opinion, who are the top 5 clans all-time?

 

Who are the top 5 leaders of all-time?

 

If you could go back and join any clan, which would you pick?

 

Who are some smaller/lesser-known clans that you liked to keep tabs on?

1. DS, DI, DF, THE, and Corr will always be the top 5 in my head but that's definitely not true.

2. Can't name 5 but Ghjjf is probably GOAT considering his longentivity.

3. I would pick DS just like two years before I actually did.

4. Torreoria basically forces me to keep track of Zero Tolerance

37 minutes ago, true said:

Tell us a W13 story

Learned this from reading the archives of the admin board, but apparently during the early years of Zybez, W13 had a penchant for randomly promoting people without telling the rest of the admin staff, which inevitably lead to conflict as they didn't go through the vetting process. He did a lot of ad-hoc unilateral decisions like that.

30 minutes ago, Kenny said:

Who was the most hardest working zybez mod that you worked with?

Lord Grug was a machine and had far more mod actions than any other person alive.

19 minutes ago, true said:

If you were to reboot Zybez/RSC today, how would you go about it?

I would let a lot more people banter and tease each other. Seems like the entire point of clanning is just to shittalk each other.

29 minutes ago, Krystal said:

I think the real question on everyone's minds is:  What age were you when you discovered self-sodomy was your preferred route?

 

 

But for real, I gotta say, when I later found out you ended up becoming a Sr Mod I was totally not surprised. You were always one of my favorite modding companions. ❤️ PS we totally gotta attempt to raid again someday and hopefully you won't have to carry me as much 😂

 

Oh I knew I was going the solo route the moment I created my first Runescape account. 

And yea! I'll always love that first modding team, going to sara gwd with you guys will always have a special place in my heart. Got your fire cape yet? I'm ready for round two.

28 minutes ago, Adam_ said:

does true 2k8 need his ass kicked?

 

as a main clanner and staff on a website mainly geared towards main clans, what did you think of pure clans? zerk/rp clans?

 

 

1. If the fights I've been invited to are any indication, true's already got enough ass kickings

2. So what I always found fascinating is the amount of people who had pure accounts that also were into clanning. Never thought there was enough people doing it but all the more power to them if that's what they liked about the game.

27 minutes ago, true said:

Whats the worst decision u made RSC wise

Ok so by far reintroducing Third Party Posting. I don't mean the concept, I was fine with the concept, but I mean posting that we were keeping it after the "trial" just reminded people how much they hated the concept. The hate for it had mostly died down once they saw it in practice. And it wasn't even really a trial run, we always knew we were going to keep it.

20 minutes ago, Adam_ said:

who were some of your most valued staff excluding weener man 

I've gone through so many staff it's hard to keep track. Can you be more specific? Every single staff member who gave up some of their valuable time to do the thankless job that was moderating CD was valuable. One staff member who I always thought had potential was gkitti, but she was too busy irl to stay as long as I wanted her to. Applerune was another one I thought had great potential but fizzled out for whatever reason. Honestly most of the major decisions we made in CD was ways to lesson the work load of the staff because clanners did not make it easy.

7 minutes ago, true said:

Thoughts on VR?

So when I was a Senior Member, a VR member tricked me into giving away the answers to my security questions, so he hacked my account to pin VR topics in CD. I was super worried that cost me my chance at being a mod at the time. So yea, not a big fan.

42 minutes ago, Wee Man said:

Are you looking forward to your rs players wiki page?

Rs3 or OSRS?

42 minutes ago, Ace said:

Good to see you again. What was the worse piece of drama you had to deal with within the private CD mod forums?

Oh my GOD you should have seen the arguments between Lego and Robtokill, DF vs Corr. They just would not stop bickering even the CD HQ, always over the most trivial bullshit. It was so bad that Robtokill even resigned as a Seme cause Lego kept getting favorable treatment.

40 minutes ago, Adam_ said:

What clans / people were the most annoying to deal with ?

 

Are you at all surprised what happened with the website?

 

Do you think if the website were to come back it would do well or no?

 

What do you think of what you know of the current state of the clan world?

 

Do you still play at all or na? 

1. Any of the ones that called me bias. Believe me I didn't give a shit about your clan, I only cared about what was fair within the rules.

2. Nope not at all.

3. See my other posts. Lightning in a bottle

4. From what I can gather about the clan world, RoT just completely dominates with nobody close, which makes for a pretty boring clan scene imo. I've done some fights with True against other clans and they seem pretty fun. Feels like clanning's in a pretty decent place atm outside of RoT? Correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't really been paying all that much attention.

5. I started an iron two years ago and he's almost maxed now! I've also done some fights for Tempest when True asks me. RSN is still Yoto32
 

40 minutes ago, true said:

Why didn't you return to clanning?

Honestly I enjoyed skilling more than clanning at the time and never really had a desire to go back. I'm a god awful pker. 
 

35 minutes ago, Adam_ said:

Apart from Jim who were some disappointing/abusive people that ended up getting binned and why?

 

Why did Robinhoodrs get demoted/banned? 

 

Who ban evaded the most? 

Question 2 answers question 1. Robinhoodrs was also banned for leaking IPs, but I believe it was more for pking activities than clan related.

Saxo single-handedly got Mr. Anderson promoted to Smod because the top brass felt it would be easier to make him admin rather than deal with all his requests to ban Saxo's alts.

38 minutes ago, Adam_ said:

What did you think of being in DF? 

DF was a nice clan, I just for whatever reason didn't feel like I fit in as well as I did with DS. Can't put a finger on to why that was.
 

24 minutes ago, Adam_ said:

What was your initial reaction to the database leak perpetrated by Sig3x? 

 

 

Was that the really famous one? I was just mostly concerned about the reputation of Zybez. It was a really bad leak, and members should have their information safe when using our boards. 

17 minutes ago, Justyn said:

What was the reason for the closure of Zybez?

 

How different do you think the clanning scene would be if the CD section of Zybez was still active?

 

Who was your favorite/least favorite clan official to deal with?

 

What's your best memory from being the main admin of CD?

 

Have you thought about attempting to revive the CD Section?

1.  Curse owned us, and their business model was buying dying forums of old, obscures games and generating ad revenue on that. Obviously, not the best business model.

2. Eh not much. Ya'll moved on from Zybez by this point. But I always felt it was nice to have a neutral board to discuss clan activities. I feel like twitter does a good job of that nowadays.

3. Forgotten them all unfortunately. It's been awhile.

4. What I loved most about being an Admin of CD was trying to see the potential in posters to see who would become a good staff member. It was always a crapshoot, but was always worth it when someone stuck through it.

5. Doubt it's possible. The work that the old guard did (Brad/Tha Hanzz/Tim-/CJ) did to make Zybez the clanning hub at the start of the clanning world was lightning in a bottle. There was a void that needed to be filled in the early days and they did it, and CD basically ran on their reputation for the decades afterwards.

16 minutes ago, Kim said:

Thoughts on Sharkbrew? 

Sharkbrew was a meme in the CD staff. Every so often people would be claiming "Sharkbrew's the way the clan world breaks free from the oppressive yoke of the biased Zybez moderators". Was never gonna be a thing.

16 minutes ago, true said:

What's a random and fumy story you can share with us

One time when I was a mod, a RoT leader was bothering me about a topic on MSN I just really wasn't in the mood for dealing with that day. So I "handled" it by just shouting in all caps the lyrics of "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield, which I had happened to be listening too at the moment. 

I got yelled at that by higher ups.

16 minutes ago, RagingPanda said:

Which clan annoyed you the most Moderating wise? 

 

What do you think of the clans between 08-10 (DF, VR, EOS, TT, EH, Cor, Solace, SE)

 

 

 

1. RoT was really good at just annoying the crap out of moderators. They knew that we were simply human and could be worn down to get a favorable ruling. They were truly the Karens of the clan world.

2. I felt like they were all trying to fill the void that DS left behind and just simply couldn't. DS left at the height of their strength and therefore no clan had to be as strong as they were in order to claim #1. Buuuut I could just be biased on that matter 😛

16 minutes ago, Scleritis said:

how many IPs did @Wee Man leak

All of them. To me.

9 minutes ago, Vanuckle said:

Do you regret promoting anyone to mod of RSC?

Jim. 

9 minutes ago, Lavigne said:

Gonna open with a vain one, as you now obviously know after our last words topic in the private CD CL section on Zybez I was ban evading. Did you ever have any idea I was, and what was your opinion of me throughout the time you knew me on Zybez.

 

(MVP before I name changed to my handle Lavigne)

You were ban evading?? I thought you part of the CD staff?? We talked about anime and stuff

8 minutes ago, Ssj said:

Whats a yoto

Slang for "a hot mess"

9 minutes ago, Fire said:

Did you believe the allegations toward @Wee Man being a corrupted Zybez Moderator at first? Any doubts to this day that he was corrupt?

 

Who were your top 3 most annoying/difficult people to deal with on Zybez.

 

If the chance was given to bring back Zybez would you be down?

 

Do you feel that True 2K8 should be locked up?

1. I knew he was corrupt, he always talking about baking. Figured he was cooking the books.

2. Two spring to mind as the most annoying: Maurice and Crest227. I think Maurice was a troll but Crest227 was serious in his annoyances.

3. Nah, let the dead rest.

4. Always

13 minutes ago, true said:

What do you feel like lead to the downfall of Zybez?

Nothing Zybez did. Sure we made mistakes, but forums were/are a dying breed. Curse had a terrible business model.

2 minutes ago, true said:

What's the worst case of power abuse you've seen on Zybez?

 

What issues did you have with clan leaders?

 

Who were your favorite/least favorite clans to deal with/moderate? 

 

Any porking scandals?

1. Jim by far.

2. My biggest gripe was clan leaders that refused to post on Zybez. I felt like Zybez was merely a place to discuss recent fights, and that they were shooting themselves in the foot by not having the free advertising that came with the board.

3. All of them.

4. Pleading the fifth on that

3 minutes ago, Venenatis said:

Tell me about your rivalry with pkpete

I did not handle 2016 very well

2 minutes ago, Venenatis said:

thoughts on @Wee Man

Great bloke, glad I first promoted him. That was the thing about running the board, you never know who would fizzle and who would rise to the challenge

2 minutes ago, Howl said:

Do you think the clan world would be any different right now if Zybez was still around?

Nah not really. By the time zybez closed, we were no longer as influential as we were. Looks like the clan world has mostly moved to twitter for shitposting which is a much better platform for it.

Greetings all.

My name is Yoto32. I used to be the on-again-off-again admin of the Clan Discussion board of Zybez. I was involved in –or at least aware of- most of the major decisions made in CD during 2007-2018, and was most active from 2010 to 2013. A little history for how I got there: I first joined the small, unknown clan Aftermath. Soon I learned there was a topic about one of our fights on some strange forum called Runescape Community, so I immediately signed up to defend my clan. On these forums I saw an up and coming Senior Member called Dark Blade75 post victory topics for the undefeated Dark Slayers, and a couple of my fellow Aftermath clanmates left to join DS. The moment I met DS’s requirements I left my co-Leader position in Aftermath to join DS. In 2007 I was first promoted to the CD staff team. After DS died I went with DB75 to Divine Forces for a couple months, but eventually quit out of boredom of the clanning world. And yet, despite no longer being in a clan I enjoyed moderating CD, despite how incredibly frustrating it could be at times. In 2010 I was made a moderator and in 2011 I was made a Senior Moderator. For a couple months in 2012 I was the leader of the CD board, mostly due to the fact there wasn’t anybody else. My interest in the boards would wax and wane but never truly go away, much like my love for Runescape. 

 

And to anybody who has ever claimed I was biased in one of my decisions, I can honestly say with complete honesty and peace in my heart, that whatever clan you happened to be in at the time did not matter enough to be worth being biased against.