Midday on the 19th, artist
Nitro goes mysteriously banned from FA. The Internet immediately blamed Pinkuh for the unexpected ban, but the truth is, there are admins more incompetent than that. It seems it was Glaide who banned Nitro, and more astonishing, he kicked Nitro at the request of an anonymous channer.
Somebody with a mind for social engineering registered the account
-xaerun-. That person then sent
Glaide a message. Roughly, it said, "Nitro has been starting trouble and needs a 48 hour ban, I have to leave so could you do it? Dragoneer has approved the ban." Glaide completely believed that this was his fellow admin
Xaerun, and without any more concern in the matter, Glaide banned Nitro. -xaerun- was banned by the next day when an artist noticed the impersonation and reported the account, and another admin restored Nitro's access.
It really seems to be that easy: someone regged a fake admin account, and Glaide didn't check it when they told him to do something. Glaide was actually de-adminned in 2007. He had done nothing for months and was difficult to reach for admin duties, and in response Dragoneer revoked his admin rights. However, Glaide has
severe emotional problems, and he plays on these to get favors. Immediately after his rights were stripped, he cried to Dragoneer and claimed that that it was making him terribly depressed to not be admin, and so Dragoneer conceded and gave his admin status back. Over two years have passed, and since then it's hard to say if Glaide has really done anything at all on the site. Few people know he's admin. He never joins the admin IRC, he rarely checks the admin forums, and he's a clear security risk. Dragoneer has hired him twice so far. This does seem to be entirely the fault of the administration above Glaide.
