Rasputin

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Rasputin

Currently 'Grigori Rasputin'

Table of contents

1 Biography

1.1 Personality

2 Community Involvement

2.1 Forum Activity
2.2 Drama
2.3 Projects/Achievements
2.4 Trivia

4 Related Links

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Biography

Join Date: Oct 22, 2004
Permaban Date: Jan 31, 2005
Aliases: Erik the Rehd, Corporal Clegg, Grigori Rasputin, Rasputin
Music: Notorious Pink Floyd fan

Rasputin's personal Pink Floyd collection (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/EriktheRehd/pinkfloydcollectionv454.jpg)

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Personality

Rasputin is a nice guy, although sometimes he lashes out at random people here and there on his journal. He lets insults roll over him, like water on a duck's back.

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Community Involvement

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Forum Activity

Chocojournal: For no appearant reason, Rasputin decided to create a string of non-stop journal entries addressed to seemingly random GFF members. No one post made any offense to the addressed, but each resulted in major disaproval, as seen in the comments made, Rasputin responded accordingly within the comments page.

Members addressed: Pangalin, Encephalon, Pom, Sassafrass, Sir VG, T Hulk Rat, Tails, a lurker, Crash Landon, LeHah, BigBlah, Bradylama, Devo, Mo0, gumby, The Wise Vivi, Yamamanama, SOLDIER, K_ Takahashi, Dr. Uzuki, Shin, peeack, Lenneth, AcerBandit, Idle Chill, Slash, magi, Kilroy, nadienne, NYRSkate, Jan, and two addressed to Gamingforce as a whole.

The Sewers: The majority of Rasputin's threads and posts reside here. As of recent, Rasputin has made the majority of his threads in The Sewers, because statistics show that the majority of threads Rasputin will make end up here anyway.

Everywhere Else: The remainder of Rasputins posts are seemingly created so that Resputin might take home the award for the least funniest member of 2006. He also cannot spell ridiculous to save his life.

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Drama

Generally speaking, Rasputin does not find himself in the middle of drama, but ends up finding himself in the middle of the trolling that occurs during the climax of some drama events.

In December of 2005 Rasputin was banned for one week by Lord Styphon for trolling and reposting deleted posts. Although this ban was never disputed due to the short amount of ban time. The truth of the matter was that Rasputin was being slightly obnoxious near the time of the banning, but the reposting deleted posts was a mistake made on Rasputin's part. He was trying to post a nomination for "Post of the Year" but was accidentally posting a link to his own thread, which was closed due to it being a really bad thread. Rasputin reposted it a total of three times before being banned. There where no warnings or anything immediately prior to the ban relating to these posts. Rasputin felt like an all around idiot, thus he changed his outlook by the end of the ban and never once mentioned it afterwords.

In January of 2006 Rasputin was banned for one month by Lord Styphon for recreating a thread he had closed and excessive trolling. Reactions to the ban were divided; Merv Burger, Devolution7 and Team Awesome (among others) were thrilled that Rasputin had been temporarily expelled, but others like Zephyrin and AcerBandit voiced disapproval. Musharraf was particularly incensed since he was the moderator who had given Rasputin permission to recreate the closed thread, though some felt that the decision was premature. Efforts were made to overturn the ban, including an analysis by Zephyrin of Rasputin's 100 latest posts as well as lengthy diatribes by Simply Majestic over AIM and in his Chocojournal. However there was no response from Lord Styphon or Miles. Meanwhile, NYRSkate was still "doing his Dogmatix Man impression", in his own words.

During the heat of this debate, the board crashed -- reminiscent of the Team Awesome banning.

Upon the return of the boards Miles extended Rasputin's ban by adding 5 days to the length of the ban itself due to forum downtime. The matter has not officially been "settled"

On Jan 31, 2005, Rasputin's ban status was upgraded to Permanent after Styphon discovered he had been using two dupe account to evade his one month ban.

Later that day it was discovered that the two said dupes where actually used by his neighbor to frame him into a perma ban as a gag. The response was iffy and Rasputin and his friend (Steve Shoi) took a picture and posted it as proof of credibility under yet another dupe account, Big Wave Burger created by Steve Shoi.

Shortly after this startling revelation the forums went down once again, of course this time it was serious. However, AcerBandit did a full-out investigation on the matter finding Rasputin innocent. All of this occured within the Mod Hut prior to the crash, thus the details on the investigation are forever lost. During the downtime Rasputin maintained minimal activity within the shaken Gamingforce community in the temporary forum (now Serious Business), although Lord Styphon's first ban was to an advertiser who he claimed to be Rasputin, but this of course was untrue and did not effect Rasputin's situation.

Several weeks after Gamingforce had been restored Rasputin was given permission to register and become a member once again, although a tighter watch would be placed on Rasputin, there seems to be no sign of misbehaving yet.

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Projects/Achievements

November 2005: Otaku Week. This community event was inspired by Sir VG. The idea behind this event was to get everyone to act like an american "otaku." By using the anime eyes (ex: ^^) smiley in excessive amounts one can come off as an otaku quite easily, as was proposed by Rasputin. This went over extremely poorly with the community, and as a result the idea was immediately dismissed.

December 2005: Ebonics Week. This community event was inspired by Night Phoenix. The idea behind this was quite simple; use ebonics as a way to communicate rather than normal english. This community event did not fare well, but unlike Otaku Week, it didn't crash and burn miserably.

January 2006: The "Yo Momma" movement. The petition to allow the phrase "Yo Momma" along with any incarnations and evolutions of the phrase to be legitimate response in the sewers, with good judgement of course, and be free from moderation and deletion. It seemed that everyone thought the idea was terrible, but after one week of voting the majority had voted "yay" by a margin of 4 votes. Musharraf took the results to the Mod Hut shortly after, but there has been no word about it since, most likely due to Rasputin's ban shortly after.

January 2006: The New Slang Contest. The idea behind this was to get the collective minds of the sewers and invent new, fresh slang. There was a brainstorm thread which received enough attention to warrant the voting thread. The voting thread, unfortunately, ended up being one of the triggers to Rasputin's January 2006 ban. The contest never reached the end due to it being closed twice. Prizes for the winners where kept by Rasputin.

March 2007: Alcohol Week. In celebration of his 21st birthday, Rasputin created the "Alcohol Theme Week." This new avatar/signature chain seemed like a great idea, and garnered a good amount of participation, but Rasputin did not fail to spark a few negative comments. This event, along with a few others at the time, was one of the last straws for board leadership in regards to "theme weeks." Shin created new guidelines with a sticky thread and renamed the titles to the then running "theme week" threads to "avatar and signature chains." This event was postponed and likely canceled due to the server crash on March 29th 2007.

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