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Cannonpointer » 19 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

19 minutes ago

Jagadeesh is the most interesting technically. The public archive contains only seven posts, from 2022 through March 2024. In 2022 he says he stopped posting because of repeated racist abuse from Cannonpointer. Then in February 2024 he reappears and claims he had previously possessed administrative powers, had been the site's technical-support person, still retained a "back door," and had just modified the forum software so unapproved users could no longer manipulate voting. He describes Ronjul as his "student and understudy" and says he had previously been stripped of his powers after leaving. Another post attributes the broken search function to excessive bandwidth consumption. Those are Jagadeesh's own claims, rather than independently verified technical records, but taken together with Ronjul's administrative posts they make it quite plausible that Jagadeesh had historically been involved in the site's backend/technical operation.

The relationship among the three therefore looks roughly like this: Cannonpointer was an early driving force behind moving the community from .org to .net and became its dominant poster/personality; Ronjul exercised actual moderation/administrative authority; Jagadeesh appears to have been a former technical administrator or developer.

Cannonpointer and Jagadeesh had a serious and very public falling-out involving repeated racist abuse, while Ronjul sometimes acted as the person trying to referee the situation. Jagadeesh and Ronjul themselves also later fought publicly over the site's management and technical competence.

One thing I cannot establish yet is the precise ownership chain: who registered/paid for LiberalForum.net in 2013, whether Cannonpointer actually owns it, whether Ronjul had server-level access versus only phpBB administrator privileges, and whether Jagadeesh really built or maintained its custom code. The public WHOIS is privacy-protected, so it doesn't answer that question