>>23544157Yeah actually Mark is another lolcow-adjacent webring imageboard guy. Apparently his origins are a /vg/ tripfag who nobody liked and from there he somehow built up a reputation as a /v/ oldfag which he's not. He either had already made or got control of cripplechan's /v/ just before the big Gamergate migrancy waves and from there was well liked at first for hosting them, doing responsive admin work, and pandering to Gamergate sentiment. Cracks started showing later when he was putting his name on projects he didn't contribute to at all like Anton & Coolpecker, and was purposefully sabotaging other projects like Team Fortress 2 Vintage because he didn't want 8/v/'s existence to be mentioned anywhere. Eventually it came out he was sort-of cripplechan's Rapeape in that he was the only board moderator also listed as staff and receiving a paycheck, but he was too weird to stay there for terribly long and lost that. Now owns 8moe's /v/ and doesn't really do much different than he did on cripplechan. Obsessed with "high quality posting" and board curation which choked out creativity more than a few times, and on cripplechan at least (I didn't use 8moe much even during the hack, don't know for sure) he'd allow watchdogging (read: backseat moderating) for any cross-posting between 4chan and Reddit, regardless of that cross-posting often being used to highlight how stagnant 8/v/ had become thanks to brain-drain, population-drain and overzealous moderation
