Riots in Website Feedback subside

Riots in Website Feedback subside

This is GMarshal with TL News here in Blogs, to where we have relocated after the celebrating masses of people in Website Feedback were ushered out by the Administrative Enforcers, after having their demands met by the administration. For those who have not been following this epic struggle between the defenders of liberty and the oppressors, you can find our completley unbiased news reports here and here. These riots originally spilled over to Website Feedback from the mafia subforum

Today we strive to report the events that have transpired over the past few days, as our coverage was interrupted due to the unfortunate distraction posed by herds of ponies. As of the time of our last report tensions were swiftly rising, with rabble raisers and scum urging more dramatic measures to be taken against the administration. These men, memebers of the occupy hot_bid movment were quoted saying things like

On November 01 2011 10:11 Rabble Rouser wrote:
I think it's time to distribute the torches and pitchforks.

Revolución!!!

On November 01 2011 11:14 Vile Scum wrote:

Long live House Chezinu!

##Occupy Hot_Bid

I lend thee my trusty defibrillator!

these clear incitations were accompanied by ultimatums like

On November 01 2011 10:16 Revolutionary Fanatic wrote:
TL will be down in 5 hours. If we're not on the sidebar by the time TL is back up then it's time for more drastic measures.

Occupy TeamLiquid

These escalating threats and the lack of response were highly worrying, causing some residents of liquidia to suggest promoting a public figure of some importance to a position of higher responsibility where the situation might be defused

On November 01 2011 04:58 Brilliant Genius wrote
##Vote GM for Mayor

Unfortunately Mr.GM was not available for comment, and soon the idea was quashed by the violent and unreasonable mob, who wanted blood. In one of the more reasonable statements we got from the rioters:

On November 01 2011 20:38 Conspiracy Theorist wrote
I'm not going to let this topic die.

We need this, and we will continue to riot angrily until we get a response!

I blame the Aliens!

unfortunately this was the tone of wrath that was present in the thread that day, with conspiracy theories involving aliens and hot_bid abounding. One conspiracy theory in particular however seemed to take root, based on the outrage at the demands of the rioters being ignored, coupled with the completely unnecessary legislation to increases the volume of blogs on the sidebar.Whispers like:

On November 01 2011 21:25 Outraged Protester wrote:

Instead of adding Mafia, they doubled the amount of blogs on the sidebar =O

Now we've discovered their evil plan!!! (Hot_Bid loves blogs?)

were common in the furiously ranting mob. Rage at the lack of a response and accusations of the administration hurting esports through their lack of cooperation and communication led to such statements as:

On November 01 2011 22:32 Furious Rioter wrote:

Honestly the fact that health and fitness is on the sidebar when it could very easily be one thread and mafia isn't when it's been around for so much longer is unfair and hurting ESPORTS!

edit: caps

On November 02 2011 00:35 Incensed Citizen wrote

Uh... Mafia is not on the sidebar because???

We're not just gonna forget about this!
##Occupy Team Liquid!

and

On November 02 2011 01:38 Pitchfork Waving Maniac wrote:

Hot_Bid!

You can break our banners, but you cannot break our resolve!

This led to people not involved in the riot, or even directly affected by the situation to take up arms in outrage and join the furiously rioting mob, our agent on the site managed to get the following comments:

On November 02 2011 00:39 Dashing Man in Tophat wrote:
If Mafia is on the sidebar I'm sure that both myself and most other TLers would start playing.
#Occupy Team Liquid!
#Occupy Hot_Bid!

On November 02 2011 00:56 Alien with a Mustache wrote:
I don't even play Mafia, but they do deserve it! :D
##Occupy TeamLiquid

Also, hilarious thread.

Go R1CH, Defeat the evil overlord Hot_Bid!

On November 02 2011 02:47 Random Bystander wrote:
No, I have no idea who these people are, I was just out to get bread,

No I don't want a free sign, why are you dragging me with you, where are we going?
Let go!

HELP, SOMEONE HELP! OH GOD HELP! Noooooooooooooo! (the rest of this statement was cut off as he happily joined the mass of people heading toward the TL headquarters waving torches and pitchforks)

It was in the middle of this escalation that a single man, now known as the Polish Terror, decided to take matter into his own hands. Taking a gamble he headed into Team Liquid Community and issued a manifesto, daring in both its content, accusations and tone. For those not too sensitive, it can be found here. This shocked and appealed many , and only added flames to the fire when the administration instantly cracked down and forced the man and his manifesto to leave TL Community, censoring all the content of the manifesto. The Polish Terror himself hardly escaped unscratched.

The reactions to the manifesto varied widely, from some, who knew that the administration would not sit idly by and allow such a smirch upon their honor

On November 02 2011 02:30. Wise Man wrote
Kurumi... *sigh*

What where you thinking?

I thought I advocated not escalating things? This will not end well.

to others who fully supported the Polish Terror's almost terroristic actions with statments such as

On November 02 2011 04:07 Terrorist Scum wrote
Kurumi, you weren't supposed to activate the secret plan yet. Our crusade just got harder since you jumped the gun and showed our hand. It's alright, we still have a few tricks up our sleeve, we will win in the end!

Occupy Team Liquid

Occupy HotBid

to people who thought the ideas contained in the manifesto had merit, and had simply been misrepresented, one such wackjob was heard saying

On November 02 2011 07:46 Insane Nutjob wrote
I think his post was misinterpreted. Allow me to translate to English for you guys:

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Since TL Admins are thoughtfully considering our proposition, I, Kurumi the Polish with bad grammar offer Potatoes as a token of peace.

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We would certainly appreciate it if TL Mafia appeared on the sidebar. We patiently await your decision.

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Translation not available.

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I would like to thank my fans for supporting me and I will practice harder to achieve better results in the future.

this madman's translation was further supported by that of another mad conspiracy theorist who filled in some of the "errors" in the first's translation

On November 02 2011 07:51 Other Madman wrote:
Don't worry, I got this:

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Then, I would like to play the immaculately mannered Liquid'Sheth in a friendly bout of Starcraft 2 on EU, just to show how friendly we can be. Since he is a much better player than I, perhaps he can limit himself to using only drones and queens. Then we can get Day[9] to cast it on Monday.

The administration, which had yet to provide a reply to any of the demands made my the rioters had but one thing to say to the Polish Terror. A stance that has held sacred on TL since time immemorial. The man with the red hammer had just one thing to say before shutting down the operations of the Polish Terror:

On November 02 2011 02:37 (only minutes after the demands went up) Enforcer of Laws wrote:
We don't negotiate with terrorists.

The anger caused by this crackdown of the administration, which was obviously monitoring the situation without providing a response to the rioters demands was escalated by a shocking news report written by our number one photographer, Mr.Wiggles. For those who missed the original report it can be found here. The fact the the lid was blown on Hot_Bid's affair with blogs, explained the favoritism that they seemed to be receiving in this time of crisis, the hidden resistance to adding mafia to the sidebar and pushing the blogs further down the line, and of course the incriminating chat logs that were discovered. Even people not directly involved with the situation were shocked, with such statements as

On November 02 2011 10:07 Kangaroo Hunter wrote:
Good lord!

HB got some explaining to do

and

On November 02 2011 12:37 Ancient Man wrote:
Hot Meal you say? What? No, I don't understand, talk louder, I'm a little deaf.

No I don't want to bid on any hot cars, thank you. Now go away young wimpersnapper, I'm tired.

The people who were more involved of course had more to say. Some of the more tame statements said: (the less tame statements were not appropriate for public consumption_

On November 03 2011 07:40 Raging Comrade wrote:
Fellow proletariat! Look at the disgrace of our evil overlord HotBid. IRC logs and picture show he is out of touch with the reality of modern TL. We must push off our chains and rise up! When the government moderators are not listening the only option is to overthrow post more until they take notice. Due to these recent revelations of HotBid's misconduct our demands now include that he issue an apology, step down from his position as admin, and that Nazgul himself launch an official investigation of HotBid's quest to take over the site and his lurid affair with the blog section. We also demand that our flag fly as TL's banner for one day

This of course lead to the breaking out of banners and images to exhibit the croud's displeasure at the situation. Pictured here are some of the more provocative ones that were seen in the throngs of people

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Through these troubling events cries were made to the administration, reminding them of their duties to the mafia community and urging them to give equal rights to this oppressed and downtrodden group statements such as:

On November 02 2011 12:16 saddened liquidite wrote
Motbob, have you forgotten all the good times? were all the memories we shared meaningless? Have you moved on to a better forum? A better cliche? Were you really just a spy all that time, eager to betray our trust?

No, I have to believe that somewhere, somehow our time together meant something to you.

On November 02 2011 11:27 optimistic mafite wrote
I support this move. I really see no reason why every other sub-forum in sports and games have a place on the sidebar, but mafia doesn't.

November 02 2011 22:24 Neutral Observer (found wearing a "Occupy Hot_Bid" shirt and waving a pitchfork)
as a neutral observer of the topic, i think these people should get their spot in the sidebar.
it's a question of tolerance! TL needs the diversity!

In the midst of this a whole new batch of ridiculous conspiracy theories arose, spurred on by the fact that the most plausible of the previous theories had been proven true, these people issued theories that ranged from the plausible:

On November 02 2011 20:58 Reasonable Thinker wrote:
Clearly hot bid has been in secret communications with EG forcing MMA to pick Yugioh so that the entire community is distracted while he kidnaps Nada and replaces him with a clone for experiments.

Using Nada's Body Hot bid forces R1CH to update the TL site and increase the size of his secret love affair the Blog section while ignoring the rioting Mafia supporters.

to the utterly ridiculous

On November 02 2011 12:39 Insane Madman with Mental Issues wrote
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coincidence? I THINK NOT

These conspiracy theories were accompanied by the appearance of a new man, known by his chosen alias of Mask, his agent provided us with the following statement

On November 03 2011 14:12 Masked Agent
We haven't occupied Team Liquid? We haven't lynched Hot bid and voted someone into his place to do our bidding? I could have sworn I had trained you people better. Do not worry, I have my third party sources ready to storm TL HQ to bring the infidels who refuse to follow reason to justice. The reckoning is coming!

In the already charged atmosphere the religious undertones and threats of increased violence were extremely worrying, leading observers to scramble for cover and TL News to pull almost all of its field agents for their safety. The danger of the situation was clearly demonstrated when a dissenter had the gal to confront the turbulent mob and oppose their wishes with the following incendiary statement:

On November 04 2011 07:47 Suicidal Opponent wrote:
I'd rather not have it on the sidebar, as it's just going to eat up vertical space (even with the forum "minimized" it still takes space. If there's some option to completely hide it, then I'd be fine with that, but as it is I already have a bunch of forums hidden that I don't want to see, so it'll just push things I do want to see further down the page.

Mafia is already a relatively selected group of people who are already in the community anyway.

The response was rapid and almost unanimous, while all opposed his statement with fiery and eloquent rhetoric, some wanted to take it a step further, inflicting violence on the man, who bearly escaped with his life, as one particularly angry rioter chasted him while yelling:

On November 04 2011 08:21 bloodthirsty rioter wrote:
##Vote: lynch Insane

All we want is a subforum like H&F, LoL, or DotA 2 which can be minimized. If being minimized isn't enough then replace H&F or Diablo 3 with us. We've been around waaaaaaaay longer.

Also, using forum index solves all your problems anyway

The man is rumored to have escaped with his life, although this is unconfirmed. We here at TL News hope he made it out ok. During this time the protests continued to demand an official response and restate their reasoning behind demanding fair and equal representation.

Then the terrible happened, the thing we had wished to avoid, a witch hunt was to begin. The supporters of hotbid were to be found and killed. This reign of murder and terror was to be instituted when enough support was found. In the words of the manifesto of the Evil Overlord

On November 07 2011 15:48 Evil Overlord wrote:
Alright let's do this properly

blah blah blah

Signups:
1. prplhz
2. RebirthOfLeGenD
3. redFF
4. Drazerk
5. Kenpachi
6.
7.

There are 6 town and 1 mafia in this setup. The following roles will be in this game:

Roles:

Heroic TL Mafia player
You are the loyal TL Mafia citizen with no night actions. All you can do is vote during the day. But the town needs you to win so be active!

Hot_Bid
Your goal is to eliminate the good people of TL Mafia. Your ability, is killing off whomever you decide on at night. Mafia killing power is always 1 until there are no mafia remaining.

Fortunately it was as this horrifying event was about to begin that R1CH, the wise leader of the administration overcame the opposition in Hot_Bid and successfully implemented the demands of the mafia rioters, leading to a swift end to the riots and an eviction of the rioters from website feedback. R1CH the mighty had the following statement to issue about the riots and escalating violence

On November 07 2011 17:00 R1CH the Wise and Mighty wrote:
Sorry, this is a no silly thread zone.

No one was confirmed injured as a result of the riots and everyone got what they desired. We here at TL News are happy that no one was killed despite the atmosphere of wrath and escalating violence, and are happy that the situation was resolved both peaceably and swiftly.This will hopefully be the last we hear of riots taking place in website feedback

Up Next: TL Mods; Oppressive Fanatics or Heros of the People?

GMarshal, Team Liquid News, providing the most unbiased and accurate news on TL since 2011, out.

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