kuja

Although kuja was once a significant contributor to OtakuBoards, he is remembered sort of as somewhat of a joke. kuja was an early member of the boards; his initial handle was osu_waterpolo, before he adopted the name of Final Fantasy IX’s antagonist. kuja is best known for his crimson century gothic font, borderline incoherent posting style, lecherous attitude towards almost any female member and his tactful use of the wink smiley. Despite his unusually poor post quality, kuja was not renowned as “stupid” per se. In fact, during the OtakuBoards Version 2 incident when Gendo and Shinji “hacked” the forums, kuja was one of the members who worked alongside James to correct their damage. When OtakuBoards Version 3 launched kuja had become a moderator of a number of forums. In fact, kuja had more responsibility than any normal moderator. The Tenchi, Sony, Final Fantasy, Zelda, Test Board, and Suggestions forums were all under his jurisdiction.

kuja’s avatar reflected him perfectly. Watch him kiss his account goodbye and disappear.

When OtakuBoards moved to its fourth iteration, kuja had become today’s equivalent of a Category Moderator, a Super Moderator. Unfortunately, however good the promotion looked for him on the outside, there was a bit of turmoil behind the scenes. kuja had been lobbying for the promotion, ultimately demanding it. James reluctantly gave in and made kuja a Super Moderator. However, James insisted that moderators do not simply have a “right” to their position and politely asked to kuja improve his post quality to reflect his position of authority on the boards. kuja’s post quality saw no improvement. James’ patience were tried further over the coming weeks when he would repeat his request several more times, only to be answered back with sarcasm and very little in the way of improvement.

kuja’s downfall began on April 4th, 2002, when Babygirl brought a serious issue to the staff’s attention: Someone was editing thread titles, changing them to things like “hi i’m a moron.” Although Babygirl knew who the culprit was, she did not specifically accuse anyone. Instead, she implored that the guilty party exercise more maturity and simply close or delete the thread. James wanted to hear more but Babygirl had deleted the threads, thus destroying any evidence. James did not expect anyone to admit to transgression. James had a good idea who was responsible, but if he knew for sure, they would lose their staff position.

In an intelligent move, kuja then made a patronizing post admitting his guilt, playing down what he did as good fun, and almost daring James to “fire” him. James had finally snapped and was all too willing to comply. After enduring kuja’s bad attitude on a personal level, James was not willing to allow kuja to toy with regular members as he saw fit. He knew that kuja had the brains to understand what was tolerable and what was not. So, James gave kuja an option. kuja could either remain a moderator in all of the current forums he occupied or he could become a regular member. James told kuja that he liked him personally but at the same time he had a site to run.

kuja was never given the opportunity to take James up on his alternative; James decided that it would be best just to dismiss kuja once and for all. James knew that kuja would probably flame him, nevertheless, he did allow kuja to view the staff forum the day following his dismissal so that he could talk to any other staff members if necessary and give a resignation message. kuja never posted his resignation message.

At this point, kuja became a regular member. However, when his status was changed, his forum permissions were all screwed up and he could neither view nor post in any of the forums. kuja went around giving numerous staff members his password and accusing James of banning him. Apparently, he did not approach James himself about the issue. When the issue was brought to James’ attention, he fixed kuja’s forum permissions and kuja had all the privileges of a normal member. But not for long.

On May 10th, 2002 Adam brought to the staff’s attention, that kuja and his “lawyers” were planning to sue him in order to get everything shut down. Everyone had a good laugh. James wanted to ban kuja since he was also causing trouble on the forums but was concerned that the overall staff was sympathetic towards kuja and thus kuja would use their sympathy to portray himself as a victim. However, the staff had grown tired of kuja’s antics and threw their support behind James.

On May 11th, 2002, kuja was finally banned in the “Adam Makes Fun of COPPA” thread when he went on a further tirade about suing Adam. The undertones of his post suggested that he was using this thread as leverage to regain his Super Moderator status. kuja also made the mistake of assuming that Adam and James were part of a company, bound under corporate law.

James told kuja how stupid he was and finally banned him. kuja would go on to AE Boards as an Administrator and get banned there as well.

Categories: Former Staff, Notable Bans