AMWAT Xtra: Message muddle

EDIT: The way things are moving, most of this was out of date and some of it inaccurate mere minutes after it was posted. I've left it as is because I think it shows quite well the way things are going and how it makes me, at least, feel. Sad times.


The former team has two active message boards. One has a password and is kinda more sedate and considered whilst the other is more unruly and libellous.

The unruly one often has people starting fights with people on the sedate one. This goes way back to when Nev Powell was in charge. There were two factions:

1. Those who loved the bloke for his record of three Welsh Cup wins on the trot, a league championship against the odds, many European adventures and one season where City went to the last game of the season only to lose 6-0 to the Franchise in the league decider, plus losing the Welsh Cup Final. The seasons after that weren't great, and honestly the money was frittered away on chasing the dream, but he stayed around to fight relegation and succeeded twice. Nev was also a player in the 1980s who has a real affinity for the club, having played in Europe and also nearly got promoted to what is now the conference (losing out by one point after topping the league much of the season.) 

This faction supported Nev staying and trying to rebuild. I mean, I was amongst them. Can't stand chopping and changing, new boss every season, hundreds of players passing through, all that crap. Hey ho.

2. Those who saw all the above and concentrated more on the aftermath of the dream; the relegation battles and the empty coffers; even the wages the manager was paid. This faction considered Powell to have been the architect of all that was wrong about the dodgy seasons, and wanted him out so someone else could have a go. New players, new board, all that.

So there was always tension. Of a sort, anyway. At the end of the day it was all quite tame stuff.

That's until the regime began to start its shenanigans. Then, it was more like this:

2. You lot were all for them and we always said they were dodgy. You are collaborators.

1. Yeah, not really. That's not actually true is it.

2. You lot were all for them... etc

To the extent of actually calling out individual fans - long-term fans at that - for their perceived apologism for the regime. Always, this was erroneous. Naughty, really.

Even then though it was all just about within the limits of reason.

Last week, Message Board 1 suddenly had threats, multiple posts, weird vibes about it. It had at some extent been hacked.

Seems that someone had locked the administrator out of the email account they'd used for the board, and in doing so requested a change of password, and therefore took control of it.

I mean how fucking petty can you get.

The background to all this is the now, nearly-quaint situation where a certain midget connected to a certain franchise was rumoured to send threats of legal action to the admins of various different boards that had been used over the years. A series of message boards started up then went silent under these threats; maybe four or five. But the fans still found another one to use, until threats happened and the whole circus went round and round and round again and again and again.

This, though, was and is different.

This is what we've come to here is it? Hijacking a message board to try and smoke out people from underneath their alias? To do what? 

Instead of just, ya know, enjoying the ride and handling things professionally like paying bills and doing accounts properly?

Is it really the case that hacking into one of the few gathering places for demoralised fans is the way to get everyone on the same side again?

Fuck me, this is as far from my club and my team as I could imagine. What a load of absolute nonsense.

The password board is back up - ostensibly from the original admin - but the trust has gone and I won't be posting anymore. Lurking, maybe. Posting - what's the point?

Scorched fucking earth.

AND IT IS ONLY FUCKING FOOTBALL ISN'T IT

Agafuckingdoo Batman.

UPDATE: Literally as this was being posted the Message Board 1 has been closed, with the following text all that is left:

Due to the lack of interest this guestbook is now closed.
I opened this forum 5 years when 2 other well known forums were forced to close. People wanted a forum password protected to stop trolls and troublemakers having it shut down. I set this one up and have paid a yearly subscription to enable me to password protect it and to keep it ad free. Bangor city blues was also closed down in 2015 while we kept going strong. I am no longer willing to do this if people are not willing to use it. 
I only hope that when the chat forum gets closed down someone else is willing to put the time and expense into opening another protected platform. 
I would also like to add I was approached yesterday asking if I was the admin of the chat site or if I could give any details as to who runs it. As this came from a legal source I can not give any further details.

Also just for the record to stop the rumour mill that is going round. The change of email address lately to request the password has been changed because I ME MYSELF got locked out of the previous one. The email address was only used for people requesting passwords nothing to do with this forum and the set up just for the passwords so people can stop with the conspiracy theories now!
Thanks

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