Serious questions:
If it's true that Rogean and Nilbog are these corrupt GMs that display favoritism at every turn and guarantee TR's dominance, then how do you explain:
1) Xzerion remaining named Xzerion. If something sinister was afoot, the easiest thing in the world would have been to have Xzerion "step down" as Developer. It would be the easiest thing in the world to lie about -- how would anyone else know? Let him keep developing and say he's not. Let him develop under a different name and say he's not. If this whole server is founded on a scheme to protect IB/TR, why not tell one excruciatingly simple lie to get 18 months' worth of heat off their backs?
2) Eashan being banned. He is, by a few greatly distorted accounts, Rogean's best bud. So why the hell would he get banned? Better question: if Rogean and Nilbog were so corrupt, why the hell would they give so much power to Uthgaard, who according to
this narrative was not in on the conspiracy? Why not make Swarws head GM, under a different name? Why allow a guy like Uthgaard to ban your RL buddy? Uthgaard was not fired. He quit. If they were so concerned with protecting IB/TR, then why ever allow Uthgaard the insight he had in the first place? The server was fine before him, and it's fine after him -- it's not like he was absolutely vital. If he was endangering the key component of the server, there'd be no reason for adding him.
3) The 365 account suspensions. Lost in all the idiocy is the fact that this sting operation targeted, and arguably punished most harshly, TR. People complain that it wasn't harsh enough, but the truth is that NONE of us have access to the list of 365 names. If Rogean and Nilbog were so corrupt, why suspend Perun? Just cross him off the list. None of us would know. Ditto every member of TR. In fact, if they wanted to, they could accuse Zeelot and Durison of using 3rd party programs, ban them permanently, and none of us would be any the wiser. Would anyone have believed Perun if he said he didn't actually cheat? Carry that logic over. Nobody would believe Zeelot or Durison. If Nilbog and Rogean wanted them gone, they'd be gone.
What this all comes down to is the fact that if favoritism were in effect, there would be hundreds of more effective, less obvious ways to enforce that favoritism than to supposedly side with TR in every dispute. These guys run the damn server. They don't need to side with TR in disputes -- they could prevent the disputes from ever even occurring if they wanted to. The argument is just based on such flawed logic. They have control over literally every aspect of the server, but they choose to exercise their favoritism by responding to TR's petitions faster than TMO's?
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