Nordicvs

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"Nordicvs" is the name of well-respected debater and so-called "god" of the Melee flaming forum who was active on the old GF (now: File Front Gaming Forums) for most of 2005. His real name is Tom. His aliases (at GF's Melee forum and elsewhere) included several characters such as "Svendorn," "Crosvind/Izokhan," "robitika," "Siron," "Duncelor," "Nihilium," "Drax," and "Crunt."

(The origins of "Nordicvs" on the Internet stretch back to the Apolyton Civilization gaming site, where he was an active debater and modder, as "Nordicus," from 1999-2002.)

He quit moderating, and left GF after an incident in which a Senior Administrator and Melee founder broke a couple of cardinal rules by banning an alias, or "double login" ("DL"), of Nord's, because he disapproved of the content). Nordicvs decided that he, being the creator of the thread posted by his alias, should also be banned. When he was not banned, he retired, asking that his Mod status be terminated, and left, becoming merely an "advanced member."

Nordicvs joined the ranks of Devious Tyrant (a rule-free website created by Alan "AzH" Smith, with "gizmo" as its webmaster) in late 2005. Devious Tyrant, or DT, was a refreshing haven for those leaving behind sites which had been over-taken by corporate influence and political correctness. Early in 2006, AzH made him a Moderator on DT.

Devious Tyrant soon filled with many members of other websites seeking more freedom. There was a strong base of "flamers," mainly from GF's old Melee forum who consisted largely of atheists and anti-Christians. The problem was that, having no rules, there was no structure, and members used every forum at DT as a flaming forum.

A few rules were eventually included, and Nord came up with the idea for the "Dungeon," DT's flaming forum.

The new problem that emerged: the hostile and aggressive "hardcore" members ended up fighting with each other constantly, driving some members away and scaring off new members. Nordicvs, now an Administrator along with gizmo and AzH, discussed ways to expand the site, generate more interest and increase its member base. There was no general agreement on what changes could be made as far as content was concerned.

The only result was that DT began raiding other websites. The idea was to have DT's "hardcore" members unleashed on the "hardcore" members of other sites, as well as trying to recruit quality posters from such sites.

Several sites were raided, with moderate to fair success, and a few new members joined DT.

By late 2006, staff in-fighting was becoming problematic, and AzH seemed disillusioned with the site. The member base began to shrink.

After a fight with gizmo, Nordicvs soon left DT and worked on the first incarnation of his blog, "Nordiblog."

He made a revist to Gaming Forums in October/November of 2006.

After a few months, he returned to a DT that was smaller (and even more hostile) and lacked any real sense of an online community. AzH was considering selling the site, and gizmo spent most of his time on other projects.

Nordicvs offered to take DT off of Azh's hands, and paid for the license for a year, but he could not get full control of the site.

Soon Nordicvs was the primary Administrator, bringing in "Nuke" as a fellow Admin, and "Evil" as Mod, among a couple other staff members. Nord wanted to turn DT into a men's site, since its current problems could not be reconciled.

By 2007, the site was losing more and more members. Nordicvs was finding out that his idea had become disastrous for the place, and that he should not be the sole leader. In-fighting increased, and he inevitably came to the conclusion that he should step down as Administrator, leaving the site to Nuke and a rarely visiting Azh.

He quit DT shortly after and "retired into private life." Nord worked on his second incarnation of "Nordiblog," on his own website, and then moved to the west coast of British Columbia.

Devious Tyrant was merged with another site of Alan's, but the two different member bases could not be merged, and this led to DT being sold to someone else.

Mid-2008, Nord visited DT after nearly a year, but only stayed a few weeks. By late 2008, Nordiblog 2.0 went offline due to financial problems.

In 2011, after coming back from B.C., and returning to the Internet, Nordicvs got in touch with Nuke at DT, which was in its worst state since its founding. Alan was no longer involved in any way, there was no webmaster, the database was broken from at least one merger with another site, the owner rarely showed up and did not concern himself with the site, and the active member base had declined to only a handful of faithful, sporadic posters.

After several conversations regarding what could be done, Nuke, Evil, and Nord agreed to move the site onto a free forum platform, the the three of them as co-Admins. Evil had already created the new DT site, back on December 23rd, 2008, on Zetaboards. None of the forum's threads, posts, or any of the database could be incorporated into the new site, and thus it was left behind.

In November, 2011, the new DT was launched. A redirect was established and mass-emails were sent to its old members.

Early 2012, Nordicvs bought his second website, and started up the third installment of Nordiblog.