By Geisha
(Formerly known as Iguana Goddess)
Bastard Factory (”BF”) is a bona fide Police State. Ruled by an arrogant, stubborn and incompetent Admin, the site is run like a prison camp - no one may post links to other forums for fear that the members may use the links to escape Admin’s despotic grasp. Hypocritically, BF’s growth strategy has been to spam other boards with its URL. However, when actual, real life bastards show up and register at BF they are banned instantly. BF’s other “growth strategy” is the generous use of socks to artificially inflate the board’s activity level. Until now, all attempts to learn more about this secretive regime were stymied by insta-bans. However, one brave soul has made it out of the dungeon alive and is here to share her astounding tale.
Iguana Goddess, one time henchman and “Super Mod” at Bastard Factory has joined AOF after resigning and being subsequently banned from BF. She now provides - for the first time ever - an inside look into one of the most pathetic sites on the Internet.
Anti Oppression Front: Thank you for agreeing to sit down with us; we realize that the wounds are still fresh from your courageous escape. First things first… tell us a little about how you discovered AOF and what your original intentions where here.
Iguana Goddess: I found you after doing a Google search on a member named Diamond Gypsy after she posted on BF. I had just intended on seeing what she was about and decided to grab a few members for BF. That plan went to hell when BF Admin decided it would be beneficial to raid other sites.
AOF: Did he tell you what his purpose was for raiding other sites?
IG: He wanted more members. The list of sites that he has raided is enormous! I don’t even think I could list them all if I tried. He spams other sites a couple times a week; he got cut from using Craigslist. He lost a long time email account because of it.
AOF: Raids, wanting more members, gets pissed if his current members post elsewhere that is not part of a sanctioned “raid”… is it just me or does the BF Admin sound like a psycho ex-girlfriend?
IG: I am beginning to think that myself.
AOF: Shocking that someone who spams the shit out of other forums (and has his mods write their own phony reviews of the site) complains and bans people for spamming…
IG: He once admitted he was a hypocrite for being like that.
AOF: So why name a forum Bastard Factory if he bans all the bastards?
IG: I honestly think he just bans those that he cannot control; he also freaks if people act “anti-BFF”
AOF: Wouldn’t “anti-bastard” mean they acted good? Oh but wait, he doesn’t want real bastards, just talk-tough e-bastards. Looks like he might’ve stirred up a hive of real bastards now. Can you tell us about what happened the first time he fucked with the wrong people and his forum got hacked?
IG: His definition of “anti-BF” is that they are against the site; God forbid anyone say one wrong word about his precious site. I woke up and went to get on the board only, it had been defaced. There was a picture of a man and his personal info. I can’t give exact details as I would have to break my promise that I made not to divulge certain information. But anyway the site was down for 2 days, not only was a good portion of the site destroyed but the admin was forced to move to a new hosting company. There was about 2 weeks worth of data lost. So a few of the BFF members decided to take refuge elsewhere for the time being.
I know he cried to digital gangster’s host [about getting hacked], then found out they own their host and they lol’d at him. Said he wouldnt have anymore issues if he switched to them.
AOF: We respect your promise but given that BF doesn’t bother to employ private registration on his URL we’ll let our readers draw their own conclusions on whose picture and data it was. Ok, so after the site came back online, you went back and everything was fine until you had your recent falling out. What happened?
IG: Well what happened was I got tired of being told not to post on other sites, that I was drawing attention away from his board. He started questioning me.
I lost it, I snapped. BUT I I politely told him I no longer wanted to be Super Mod, it was stressing me out. I was finally frazzled at the ends. He kinda got pissed and said, “Thanks, GOODBYE!” I planned on being a regular poster, until today. I went on the site and noticed I was missing posts in my count, probably around 20 posts. Then someone deleted my shouts where I told another member that I had resigned, why delete those?
AOF: You need to break out of your Stockholm Syndrome - you are safe now. Only butthurt mods delete links to other forums or get enraged when people DARE to participate in another forum. There is no excuse for deleting links to other forums/sites unless they have illegal shit in them. Sorry, got on my high horse there. You’ve mentioned several times that being a BF mod had you stressed. Can you tell us a little about how the admin wanted you to mod over there?
IG: I am still breaking out of my shell here. Duties over there were to move threads to appropriate forums, delete “spam,” merge threads that were of the same topic. I also had to merge diamondgypsy’s posts when she would multi-post while in the Ass Box [a "time out" area on BF where naughty members are exiled]. I took the heat for a lot of Admin’s choices. Admin’s solution to that was for me to stop posting on other sites instead of him manning up and letting it be known that he made the decision to ban diamondgypsy. I spent a lot of time covering up for the Admin. When info that he didn’t want posted, got posted it was my job to try to make it go away.
AOF: Ok so fast forward to now - does part of you miss BF? Do you think you can ever go back?
IG: I miss some of the people, but honestly I regret getting involved with Bastard Factory. The only good thing that came out of finding that board is that I found many other boards. Go back? He banned me, he even banned a proxy that I have never used.
AOF: After conducting an analysis of BF’s traffic statistics and post-to-member ratio, it appears to us that that many of BF’s “members” are actually Admin socks designed to make the site appear more popular. Can you confirm that analysis?
IG:[listing several of Admin's most active socks]
Veronica Bush
Maggie Faggart
Deep Cheese
Tension Whore
Mr. FuckingBigShot
Richard (something)
I know there is more I just can’t think of them. He also uses abandoned accounts to post. He even made a post in diamondgypsy’s name.
I had two socks: Pandora and ~Love Me~
AOF: Facsinating. Any advice you’d like to give the BF Admin if he’s reading this?
IG: He will read it. As for advice, I will never give him advice again. It’s like talking to the wall.
AOF: It’s a common phenomenon - someone pays a couple hundred bucks for forum software and hosting and suddenly thinks that he’s a Master of the Internet. They don’t realize that the power of the Internet is that many different information sources can be amalgamated together and instead try to build a prison camp to hold their members captive.
By the extraordinary level of BAWWWW he displays, it’s obvious that Mr. BF believes his site will grow to be huge and he will sell it and become rich if he just smothers it with so much LOVE. WRONG. He’s killing what he loves most.
So what are your plans now?
IG: LOL that is all so true. My plans now are to relax and enjoy my freedom to post without restriction.
AOF: We are glad to have you. Thanks for sitting down with us!
IG: It was my pleasure to give up the inside scoop.
Iguana Goddess, one time henchman and “Super Mod” at Bastard Factory has joined AOF after resigning and being subsequently banned from BF. She now provides - for the first time ever - an inside look into one of the most pathetic sites on the Internet.
Anti Oppression Front: Thank you for agreeing to sit down with us; we realize that the wounds are still fresh from your courageous escape. First things first… tell us a little about how you discovered AOF and what your original intentions where here.
Iguana Goddess: I found you after doing a Google search on a member named Diamond Gypsy after she posted on BF. I had just intended on seeing what she was about and decided to grab a few members for BF. That plan went to hell when BF Admin decided it would be beneficial to raid other sites.
AOF: Did he tell you what his purpose was for raiding other sites?
IG: He wanted more members. The list of sites that he has raided is enormous! I don’t even think I could list them all if I tried. He spams other sites a couple times a week; he got cut from using Craigslist. He lost a long time email account because of it.
AOF: Raids, wanting more members, gets pissed if his current members post elsewhere that is not part of a sanctioned “raid”… is it just me or does the BF Admin sound like a psycho ex-girlfriend?
IG: I am beginning to think that myself.
AOF: Shocking that someone who spams the shit out of other forums (and has his mods write their own phony reviews of the site) complains and bans people for spamming…
IG: He once admitted he was a hypocrite for being like that.
AOF: So why name a forum Bastard Factory if he bans all the bastards?
IG: I honestly think he just bans those that he cannot control; he also freaks if people act “anti-BFF”
AOF: Wouldn’t “anti-bastard” mean they acted good? Oh but wait, he doesn’t want real bastards, just talk-tough e-bastards. Looks like he might’ve stirred up a hive of real bastards now. Can you tell us about what happened the first time he fucked with the wrong people and his forum got hacked?
IG: His definition of “anti-BF” is that they are against the site; God forbid anyone say one wrong word about his precious site. I woke up and went to get on the board only, it had been defaced. There was a picture of a man and his personal info. I can’t give exact details as I would have to break my promise that I made not to divulge certain information. But anyway the site was down for 2 days, not only was a good portion of the site destroyed but the admin was forced to move to a new hosting company. There was about 2 weeks worth of data lost. So a few of the BFF members decided to take refuge elsewhere for the time being.
I know he cried to digital gangster’s host [about getting hacked], then found out they own their host and they lol’d at him. Said he wouldnt have anymore issues if he switched to them.
AOF: We respect your promise but given that BF doesn’t bother to employ private registration on his URL we’ll let our readers draw their own conclusions on whose picture and data it was. Ok, so after the site came back online, you went back and everything was fine until you had your recent falling out. What happened?
IG: Well what happened was I got tired of being told not to post on other sites, that I was drawing attention away from his board. He started questioning me.
I lost it, I snapped. BUT I I politely told him I no longer wanted to be Super Mod, it was stressing me out. I was finally frazzled at the ends. He kinda got pissed and said, “Thanks, GOODBYE!” I planned on being a regular poster, until today. I went on the site and noticed I was missing posts in my count, probably around 20 posts. Then someone deleted my shouts where I told another member that I had resigned, why delete those?
AOF: You need to break out of your Stockholm Syndrome - you are safe now. Only butthurt mods delete links to other forums or get enraged when people DARE to participate in another forum. There is no excuse for deleting links to other forums/sites unless they have illegal shit in them. Sorry, got on my high horse there. You’ve mentioned several times that being a BF mod had you stressed. Can you tell us a little about how the admin wanted you to mod over there?
IG: I am still breaking out of my shell here. Duties over there were to move threads to appropriate forums, delete “spam,” merge threads that were of the same topic. I also had to merge diamondgypsy’s posts when she would multi-post while in the Ass Box [a "time out" area on BF where naughty members are exiled]. I took the heat for a lot of Admin’s choices. Admin’s solution to that was for me to stop posting on other sites instead of him manning up and letting it be known that he made the decision to ban diamondgypsy. I spent a lot of time covering up for the Admin. When info that he didn’t want posted, got posted it was my job to try to make it go away.
AOF: Ok so fast forward to now - does part of you miss BF? Do you think you can ever go back?
IG: I miss some of the people, but honestly I regret getting involved with Bastard Factory. The only good thing that came out of finding that board is that I found many other boards. Go back? He banned me, he even banned a proxy that I have never used.
AOF: After conducting an analysis of BF’s traffic statistics and post-to-member ratio, it appears to us that that many of BF’s “members” are actually Admin socks designed to make the site appear more popular. Can you confirm that analysis?
IG:[listing several of Admin's most active socks]
Veronica Bush
Maggie Faggart
Deep Cheese
Tension Whore
Mr. FuckingBigShot
Richard (something)
I know there is more I just can’t think of them. He also uses abandoned accounts to post. He even made a post in diamondgypsy’s name.
I had two socks: Pandora and ~Love Me~
AOF: Facsinating. Any advice you’d like to give the BF Admin if he’s reading this?
IG: He will read it. As for advice, I will never give him advice again. It’s like talking to the wall.
AOF: It’s a common phenomenon - someone pays a couple hundred bucks for forum software and hosting and suddenly thinks that he’s a Master of the Internet. They don’t realize that the power of the Internet is that many different information sources can be amalgamated together and instead try to build a prison camp to hold their members captive.
By the extraordinary level of BAWWWW he displays, it’s obvious that Mr. BF believes his site will grow to be huge and he will sell it and become rich if he just smothers it with so much LOVE. WRONG. He’s killing what he loves most.
So what are your plans now?
IG: LOL that is all so true. My plans now are to relax and enjoy my freedom to post without restriction.
AOF: We are glad to have you. Thanks for sitting down with us!
IG: It was my pleasure to give up the inside scoop.
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