What the hell is this??

[Lex Luthor]

I received this PM just recently...

Secret Society Unveiled
Excuse me for your time, as I come here anonymously, but I have words of revelation to disclose to you. You may have noted at many of the signs of a "secret society" in the Half-Life 2 . Net forums, of which an accounted 65 members exist in, 35 whom are actively engaged, including Samon, tr0n, and el Chi, among others prominently posting in both their secret society and the normal forums. At least three admins are part of this society.

I come here with you to disclose their harmful secrets, many of which corrupt and defile our forums.

That name is now revealed to you, with indesputable evidence against them.

That name is Hetairia. You can see the name reflecting below the banner, in the forum's banner only, not the homepage banner.

Look....

As you can see, Hetairia exists for one purpose - To subvert the entire forums into a malicious and contingent extention of their own purposes, to rid of Munro and his forums. Munro is not part of Hetairia, and may not even be aware of it himself. If he is, Hetairia has grown too powerful to control it himself, and he needs the help of his fellow forumites to rebel against this society! The heretics grow stronger with each passing day! It is converting many innocent forumites, including an attempt to capture Foxtrot, an esteemed member of the forums. Hetairia is going to act soon, as Munro's reluctant decision to start ads in hope he'll raise enough money for his dieing forums. That's right, Valve has shut off funds to the forum. It hasn't been announced yet for fear of panic and despair, but starting August 16th of this year, 2005, the forums will be hopeless without funds from other sources.

Hetairia wants to shut down the ads, and this will destroy the forums. Why destroy the forums, you ask? Because they are willing to do it to create more popularity for their own forums! Hetairia has secretly been growing their own forums, found at no other location than

www.hetairia.net

The final stages of war are coming, it is up to you to stop Hetairia from growing too powerful! Make threads about them, reveal their causes, send these words to others like you, wanting to know the truth! This is almost the very essence of Half-Life 2, a supressive government trying to route out the little guy! You be the Freeman!
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[Foxtrot]

Where do I get one? Who the hell sent you that?

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

I always liked wars, maybe it can be like bf2, but with swords. I always wanted a sword in the game.

 

[SimonomiS]

A war? On the internets?

 

[Lex Luthor]

No clue, it doesn't give the person's name. It says "
Join Date: Dec 1969
Posts: 0 " tho...

 

[SimonomiS]

Probably a troll or something. Heh, if I might send PM's out to spam this guy's (I don't like him, hes an arrogant fat shit) band forum.

 

[Foxtrot]

I always liked wars, maybe it can be like bf2, but with swords. I always wanted a sword in the game.

I would own you in it.

 

[Zeus]

Zerimski maybe?

jk....I think

 

[joule]

Zerimski maybe?

jk....I think

Maybe so.

 

[Shamrock]

I got that too... Wow.. Internet rebels. How awesome?

But seriously though, in the first line of the Hetairia forums under public discussion there is a post that says What is Hetairia? Within the first post lies the answer.

WTF is Hetairia?


Hetairia means "secret society" in some random language. Either that, or hairy potatoes.

Anyways, Hetairia was started by CrazyHarij and some other vets who made a secret cult IRC channel. They decided that hl2.net was becoming too overburdened with obnoxious newbies and corrupt mods, so they wanted to revive what the forum used to be. Originally, Brian Damage and Varg's Edge of Justice mod forums were used, but recently TheGreenBunny has gotten us our own Hetairia domain.

We are a democratic society, and every member is voted in with the majority (but if there is a problem between members, it is worked out before an invite is sent). We have our own IRC channel, an IRC comic, and random other things that might be interesting (Gloglebags and stuff) (Thanks to Crush for the history )

Stuff you might say

"You invited me, but I don't see anything here..."
Hold tight, one of us has to change your status so you can see the hidden Hetairia forums.

"How can I get into Hetairia?"
You can shut the hell up and wait for an invite if you haven't already gotten one . If you're reading this, you're probably registered here, and if you're registered here, you're probably currently getting voted on. Please don't ask to be in, that's annoying. (Although I seriously doubt that anyone will find this forum without getting an invite anyway, so this shouldn't be a problem)

"I'm so very happy that you picked me! I love you!!
I know, I'm great, aren't I?

"Whats your IRC channel?"
Check around the secret forums for the IRC channel info.

"Where's the Hentai?"
Follow these instructions:
Buy a gun, ammunition, and some poison.
Eat the poison, and then shoot yourself in the head like, 100 times.

"WTF I'm still confused"
Sorry. You can email one of us, or send a PM if you're still clueless.

 

[bliink]

Ok.. It looks like some user is spamming PM's and its possible that theres a security issue at the moment, so while we try and track it down, there needs to be a stop on speculation, while I find out what I can.

Check to make sure you don't have malicious scripts of any kind on your machines.