His images are often hosted at members.cox.net/compwizard and Sims2forums.com
Currently posting as §ilverWolf at his own forums.
Part One
The History
{SQ4}Antioçh registered at the Tactical-Ops forum a few years ago, where he was known as Kristina23. He also at times went by the name of Jade. There, he pretended to be a female, often flirting with the other forum members, and in at least one known case he tried to lure some of the younger males there into having cyber-sex with him. While at this forum, he also tried to pass off a picture of a girl he found on the internet as himself, until she found out about it and posted there to complain. Changing names and tactics, he next posted that his girlfriend had recently been killed in a car accident in an attempt to garner sympathy from many of the angry members there. For this and several other reasons, he was banned from Tactical-Ops.
In early 2002, he moved onto the INA (now Atari) UT2003 General Discussion forums. At that forum, he went by the name Packet £o§§, and once again passed himself off as a female. Pretending also to be a mapper, he asked some of the other mappers on this forum for help with his maps. Unfortunately, these later were revealed to be stolen. After being caught for stealing DM-Myhouse, he was ridiculed on the INA/Atari forums, so he asked the forum moderator to change his name to -=WhiteWulf=-.
At this point, he gave up pretending to be a female, but again posted the story of a dead girlfriend, although this time there were a few variations in the story... such as the alleged girlfriends name, and the time when the accident occurred.
The Pattern
One of the things that made the members of these forums so upset, was that he repeatedly passed off others work as his own. Aside from maps, there are many cases were he would post artwork, either for a signature or avatar, and then boast about how well it had turned out. Unfortunately, it usually turned out that he had just stolen it. Someone would eventually post the original artwork from the original website or forum. After being caught by some members of the forum, he would start spamming threads with 'nobody loves me', or 'I am a loser' to gain sympathy from newer members of the forum, or those that were unaware of his past. This would occur on an almost weekly basis.
Sometimes to try and hide his lies , he would delete the thread (which you can do if you were the one that created it) and then later deny he had ever posted it. If he did not create the thread however, he could only later delete his post in it, hoping no one would notice. This, -=WhiteWulf=- did on a regular basis, as only forum moderators can close or move other members threads.
The Opportunity
The INA/Atari forums were popular, but one of the downsides was that posting off-topic [OT] was not allowed. In early 2003, one of it's members, Hellcat2k3 started up the 'Hellcat Forums', a place where the other members he had become friends with at INA/Atari could go and safely post OT. Many of these INA/Atari members moved over to this new forum, and it began to grow in popularity. Trying to get a fresh start, -=WhiteWulf=-, who had recently changed his name again, now to {SQ4}Antioçh, signed on at Hellcats. In May 2003, when the Hellcat's forum started reaching the bandwidth limit, Hellcat switched to a new server, and The Skill Club was born.
It was at this time that {SQ4}Antioçh offered to donate a vBulletin license for the new forum. This gave the Skill Club many added features, and a new look. In exchange for this, {SQ4}Antioch asked to be a forum moderator. Hellcat, who was unaware of his past, and simply trusting in nature, accepted this offer.
Some people who knew about {SQ4}Antioch’s past and complained about it were either forced to leave because of his moderator powers, or they just became fed up and left in disgust. When anyone else’s thread questioned {SQ4}Antioch’s past, or caught him claiming credit for stolen work, he would close the thread, so that it would be pushed off the first page and out of sight. Other times he would hide these threads by moving them to a quieter part of the forum. He would also send a personal message (PM) to members, warning them that he was going to ban them. This abuse of moderator powers finally resulted in a first removal from his moderator's position.
__________________
Last edited by Juggernaut : 13-01-2005 at 12:34 AM.
After keeping out of trouble for a few weeks, Hellcat decided to give him another chance. This time though, it was thought best if it was kept a secret, as some members were bound to complain if they knew. {SQ4}Antioçh chose the name MaDCaT75, but continued to also post under {SQ4}Antioçh. Soon, threads that caught him in a lie would be closed for no, or little reason. {SQ4}Antioçh would post in one of these threads that it should be closed. He would then log on as MaDCaT75, who (of course) would agree, and proceeded to close the thread.
One of the features of the Skill Club is the rate system. If you see a post you like, you can open the rate box and award the person who made a good post a point. These points were used in the forum 'store' where you could by such things as glowing, or custom titles. You can't however, rate yourself to give yourself a point. As {SQ4}Antioçh had two accounts though, he was able to log on as the moderator MaDCaT75, and then start rating his {SQ4}Antioçh posts.
A short time later, a bug was discovered in the system, where you could rate the same post multiple times, and he used this to its fullest advantage. You can also in the rate box disapprove of someone’s post, and one of their points is taken away. Any members that crossed {SQ4}Antioçh would find their hard earned point count go down to zero.
After people began to question, and suspect MaDCaT75 was really {SQ4}Antioçh, he then switched his moderator account name to Tyrael. However, he continued to use these tactics to give himself points, take others away, and close or move threads not to his liking.
The Tyrael account really just served as a usefull way to close threads that caught him in his lies. For example, when {SQ4}Antioçh posted pictures from a map called CTF-Conquest, claiming it was his own creation... once again people found out it was just another stolen map. Those people who exposed his lies soon got a PM from his Tyrael alias, threatening them with immediate banishment.
The Ban
His moderator powers finally came to an end when members started posting threads about {SQ4}Antioçh abusing the point system, and Tyrael closing or moving threads. In one of these, his secret identity was revealed , forcing Hellcat to post a thread asking for other members opinions, and proof of {SQ4}Antioçh/Tyraels behavior. By the end of that day, the Tyrael account was closed, and {SQ4}Antioçh was left with the single account, with no chance of becoming a moderator again.
Less than a week later, after continually spamming threads about how he was a victim, and that he donated the vb license, and again posting about the dead girlfriend... He even confessed that he was all these identities and again played the victim. He even let slip that he had given Hellcats vb license to others. This made the Hellcat license invalid, and illegal. This resulted in a poll, asking the members of Skill Club if he should be banned. Once Hellcat found out about the vb license, he felt rightfully betrayed... {SQ4}Antioçh was finally banned.
{SQ4}Antioçh reacted to this by changing his ISP, and then returned to flame under a new name. He also withdrew the (now invalid) vBulletin license, and reported it to vb as a pirating site. Fortunately a member stepped in and donated the money for a real license.
Lately, posing as -=Tex=- over at Atari, he posted a new map, which once again turned out not to be the case...
How he got caught
One of the reasons he was continually caught in his lies is simply because there are a lot of people who log onto forums, and would recognize these stolen artworks or maps. Also, anytime you post a picture of something on a forum, you have to have it hosted on a server somewhere in order for it to be viewed. If you right click a picture in your web browser and select 'Properties', you will see the URL of the site it is hosted at. In the case of using that girls picture, he simply linked directly to her site, making it easy for someone to visit her site and inform her what was going on. At other times, he would host the pictures on his own site, such as his signature. This made it easy to track him each time he changed his member name. Although he would insist he had nothing to do with that other identity (though they shared the same hosted URL) he coincidently also had a dead girlfriend.
Chat programs such as ICQ and IM also designate you a unique number, which can be seen in the log files. His ID number remained the same in these chat programs while using the names Kristina23, Jade, Packet £o§§, -=WhiteWulf=- and {SQ4}Antioçh. Here, he would complain about the forums to other members, or in some cases even boast about what he had done there. He also would use the forum's Private Message (PM) system to complain to other members. These of course, are easy to save and archive, as are taking screenshots of threads you suspect will be deleted, and later denied.
Why keep track of all this?
Tactical Ops, Tournament.com (T-com), INA/Atari, d3fx, and Hellcat's Skill Club are by no means the only forums he has been banned from. Forum moderators and administrators have found that this one person alone continually drives other members away, and keeps others from joining. Not only is the forums reputation tarnished everywhere he goes, but while he is there he spams the boards with insults, one smiley replies, non stop 'pity me' posts, and worst of all... taking credit for peoples hard work and effort. Truly, a forum's worst nightmare.
Written and compiled by omgOMGuybrush & Pitboy
Thanks to the many members at these forums for contributing links and info.
Glad you finally gathered up all the info to make it all clear although i have gathered up all the bits and pieces together by reading all the posts and soaking up info.
However, i think that this text should be posted on as many forums as possible. Or warn the moderators at least with specific details about his identity.
I his fiancee hit by a truck and died,... in a other thread he than said he lives, got confronted. Only to counter to say the first girl was his fiancee and the 2nd one that survived was his Girlfriend.
What he also does is claim to be the person he steals the stuff from. On the TO forums he got cought pirating Art from our very own B1rthm4rk,... only to claim he was b1rthmark.
Originally posted by Pitboy In early 2003, one of it's members, Hellcat2k3 started up the 'Hellcat Forums', a place where the other members he had become friends with at INA/Atari could go and safely post OT. Many of these INA/Atari members moved over to this new forum, and it began to grow in popularity. Trying to get a fresh start, -=WhiteWulf=- signed on at Hellcats as {SQ4}Antioçh.
He was actually using the {SQ4}Antioçh name at INA before he came to Hellcat's forum.
Location: In Dexter's Lab, overclocking hamsters into cute, fuzzy, nuclear landmines
Posts: 5,679
I think the best way to send this info to other forum mods/admins is to save the page as html and edit anything out not necessary(login name, sigs/avas, etc.)
Very thorough information
P.S. the proof links could be saved pages as well that would be directed to in the originating page Just look at the CUT2 readme
Location: Hiding from BLINK in the box of DooM 3....
Posts: 6,161
Pit.....I dare you......I MEAN Dare you to post this at Omicron forums/T-com forums in a link that is given the hyperlink name in the ilk of a game or what not and let them read what has gone on
Originally posted by Bloodsplat Pit.....I dare you......I MEAN Dare you to post this at Omicron forums/T-com forums in a link that is given the hyperlink name in the ilk of a game or what not and let them read what has gone on
She stole more maps than you think. She wanted me to 'beta test' some of them, and when I recognised them, she got extremely pissy and defensive. And yes, I argue that packetloss is a female . . a disturbed one.
Originally posted by DuSt0fF She stole more maps than you think. She wanted me to 'beta test' some of them, and when I recognised them, she got extremely pissy and defensive. And yes, I argue that packetloss is a female . . a disturbed one.
To "Roy Bean," regarding your referral to this page from the Omicron PM: You were right.
I wasn't trying to blow you off in my reply to your message (which you may not even have received); but I've seen net.lynchings before, and had to know for myself whether or not it was true.
Now I know.
I can't say whether it's all true, but with the deletion of a thread mentioning the info on this page, the closing of his board altogether, and his subsequent utter meltdown on the gopostal.com site, I'm definitely more inclined to believe it.
. . . . . . . . 
