OP provides a valuable service announcement that might be best accompanied with a PM to Arnox.
Yes - we know. A monster chunk of IS is now Zoklet and IS has no idea who any of us are, or what our former drama is and rightly shouldn't give a fuck about the vast majority of it. On the other hand, some of that drama, has unfortunately come with us and should probably be acknowledged for the greater benefit of IS.
Note that Spectral is at heart just a troll, but he's fundamentally different from most trolls in that he is very skilled at his shit-stirring. His greatest talent is going on at length in a strident tone with "facts" that appear questionable at best, and is coupled with a great skill at convincing others that he is right. His goal in this is manipulation and shit-stirring for best effect. He maintains this facade like an unbreakable rock - he may admit to being wrong, but you are intentionally left with the impression he knew it all along.
You really only have to look at his history to see it. He started off with a bang - on Totse, I think? - insisting he had the power to summon a red-eyed demon named Gog and punish unbelievers with it. The argument was surreal and kind of bizarre, but utterly Spectral. It's also where he got the nicknames Spectroll and Speckles.
Apparently after realizing that was a complete and utter bust, he moved on to being Spectral, Rebel Hero to the masses, and actually gathered a small following of idiots. Somewhere in this time period he dropped a lot of so-called PI very openly and very publicly, and then began selectively attempting to get people banned from the forum for using that. It wasn't very noticeable until it spiraled out of control later in a public debate about PI due to the fact at the same time Spectral was regularly attacking the management for its policies on PI management. This may seem strange and contradictory, and of course it is. Trolling at its finest and most skilled. I will credit Spectral this, he is good at what he does.
That eventually fell apart and he lost most of his following as well as any credibility he had left with the users or management. As I understand it, he was also eventually banned from Zoklet, but I am not privy to the details.
