5 Nov 2009
HikiCulture Creator: “Chair” admits he is not beyond spamming
Note that since I haven’t explored much of Experience Project, I’m not really sure how much Chair can edit and delete his replies. However as of this writing, the post exists.
For why I am stating this: some Hikikomoris have this strange habit of editing out their posts. This holds true whether they have spammed or not.
In HikiPhpBB, Chair has edited some of his old post out so I don’t consider the act beyond him.
From the last update on this thread: http://hiki.posterous.com/hikiculture-admin-strongly-suspected-of-spamm
Update: This is actually old but I just visited experience project again and apparently Chair (under the username HikiCulture) posted this:
http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Am-Somehow-A-Hikikomori/760004#comment_embed
“By the way, if you don’t remove those inane blogs of yours that are full of groundless claims about me, I will create a series of blogs stating reasons why I believe you to be the one behind the spamming of HikikomoriForum.
Not only me, but a handful of people I’ve talked to believe you to be one of the culprits behind all of the spamming.
Why were you online on HikikomoriForum while the spamming occured? You had stated that you had pretty much quit logging into the forums since you were busy with other things such as your blogs. I am highly suspicious of you and imagine that you are simply trying to hurt my image.
You know, you’re not the only banned member who has tried to hurt my image. Just accept the fact that I banned you from my forum.”
The important section is in the first paragraph as the last run of recent AnonIB spammings have been been using my username.
Not only that, this shows that Chair himself is not only capable of spamming but he himself has admitted that it is not below him to spam.
Since the post is dated Oct. 30th and I missed it, the context of the post is kind of lost but unless this poster is a fake account, even if Chair himself did not spam the forums, this is conclusive admittance that he is indeed a spammer.
Unless new evidences come to light, I am changing my stance and I sincerely believe Chair to be a spammer just based on these comments alone.
Whether he is the HikiPhpBB and AnonIB spammer, I don’t know. But this statement proves he is a spammer.
May any Hikikomori beware of being associated with this person.
Post Ends
Now one can interpret “reasons” here as not synonymous with spamming.
However the key words that strike me as peculiar is the usage of “a series” of blogs as opposed to any type of singular reply.
Notice also, that he is “threatening” to do this and have no qualms of lying.
It’s very… anti-perception of a non-spammer or at least a non-spam organizer.
The reply reeks of someone who would retaliate strongly against any comment instead of addressing the points raised against him.
Even in his state of anger, the post never assumes the role of a single person flaming or insulting back. It’s always written in an “I’m capable of hurting you and I definitely will” manner that strongly hints of someone who is willing to organize a spamming spree.
Readers may wonder why I am trying to “psycho-analyze” a fairly straightforward post.
This is because I do give Chair the benefit of the doubt and listen to his words carefully to see if there’s any hint that our personality just don’t get along.
Unfortunately, I just don’t see anything in his words that hints that it’s merely a clash of personalities.
Each retaliation just seems like a spammer’s way of saying “You’re not getting me to admit this but shut up about it or I’ll just continue to cause trouble.”
Maybe I’m just reading too much of these words especially since I’m a poor judge of people.
Still, no matter how I try to interpret it, it’s always comes off like he’s planning something huge because someone said something possibly bad against him.
Then there’s always the fact that he’s dodging the points and then throwing unrelated insults back at the person he’s talking to.
At least this holds true with his offensive replies to me.
For example, the original accusations with regards to my banning was edited by him as resolved.
Even in the non-edited post, he himself said it has been a long time since my ban.
Yet not only did he brought the issue back in this post but the only action in-between his “beating me up” comments was a single reply I wrote and it was a reply to a very issue he considers resolved.
It’s really problematic to constantly excuse his behaviour.
If you treat Chair as a non-spammer, then there’s something very fishy about the constant associations with HikiCulture and the spamming of other Hikikomori-related communities.
Then add another person also under the comments of that thread saying:
“Chair made this general comment before deleting it from hikiphp. Went along the lines of, “We have been made aware of our user on hikiculture who has been spamming. The situation is resolved.” You need to brush up on internet laws.”
Yet you would think he would have added/mentioned this in his replies but he constantly focused on saying the claims are “groundless” against him.
With all this consideration in mind.
Chair is either a bad forum admin and a bad diplomat for his brand “HikiCulture” or he’s in league with spammers/is himself a spammer.
To the former, it’s hard to think that a forum admin who is very loose in banning people suddenly gets this spam problem when he is very on top of non-spamming issues.
That’s why I can only conclude that Chair is a spammer based on not only the evidences but his follow-up actions to them and unless new evidence come up that shed some light into that, I consider Chair to be a spammer at this point.
