TRC

TRC participated in the GameFAQs Interview series. Their Interview can be found here.

User Information
User Name	trc1986
User ID	92992
User Level	-2: Banned
Account Created	01/31/2001
AKA	TRC

TRC, who has also posted under the aliases of Demoneye, Ancient Warrior, and Liam8 is a former KoS user who has been posting on the boards since January of 2001. He is considered a notable user for his activities with the KoS Krew in 2002-2003 and for his part in a series of high profile account thefts during 2008-2009. In addition he is one of the most heavily banned users in history having over 330 of his own accounts banned. It is also known that throughout the years he had gained access to over 550 other accounts, most of which occurred during the three years at the end of the 2000's. His first account was trc1986 (#92992) and was created on January 31, 2001. TRC was confirmed as a Class 1 KoS user from September 22, 2002 - October 16, 2002, a Class 2 KoS user from October 17, 2002 - December 2, 2002; April 29, 2003 - July 2, 2003. He was also on Class 3 KoS user (the former Class 2 KoS) from June 19, 2008 until August 20, 2008. It is also believed that he holds the record for lowest karma ever on an account with -1304 karma.

History

Early Years (2001-2005)

Shortly after joining the boards early in 2001 he established himself as a regular on the Playstation Final Fantasy Tactics boards (FFTMB/FFTSB), Perfect Dark Social Board (PDS), Questions and Suggestions (Q&S), and Current Events (CE). On April 15, 2001 his first account was banned for censor bypassing, during the remainder of 2001 he continued posting at his regular place and began posting on secret boards that were being claimed by various members of the FFTSB such as RdDragon, Ninjamaster (ImmatureContent), superaielman, and philsov. Between May and August 2001 he participated in many board invasions with members of the PDS and joined . A particularly notable invasion occurred on July 4, 2001 with PDS invading the Pokemon boards leading CJayC to create a bold topic on Perfect Dark Social concerning the invasions. It was in 2002 that he first became involved with the GameFAQs Spinoff scene and was a regular on the Outboards and later on WhiteFyre and Darkside Legion. In the summer of 2002 he participated in trolling and invaded the Grand Theft Auto 3 boards with FBI Porker and rancid milk. He first became officially KoSed due to his association with the spyrothedragon hacking incident and went on to become a founding member of what would become the KoS Krew. In September of 2002 shortly after the spyrothedragon incident, the Banned User List was removed from the site, occurring after being recently flooded with dozens of names belonging to TRC and Punk Daddy. After the removal of the Banned User List, CJayC banned five variations of TRC's user name (trc, txrxc, tr c, t rc, and t r c) from being placed in newly created accounts. In 2003, TRC continued his association with the KoS Krew and participated in the various trolling schemes and other disruptive plans concocted by the group. It was most common to troll a few of the cliques on Current Events and the World Wrestling Federation Games Social Board and to participate in the theft of accounts usually from spinoff database leaks. There were also times when exploits would be used on occasion such as the FTP Incident. Following the BRM ratting incident the KoS Krew became fractured with only little activity from some of its members. TRC began posting less after the event and went into a period of inactivity on GameFAQs.

Return to GameFAQs/Board Hunting years (2006-2007)

TRC once again became a regular poster on GameFAQs in 2006. His main account during this period xxxTxxxRxxxCxxx. He became a notable board hunter during this time period, having visited nearly every board on the site. He also resumed his posting on his old hangouts as well as on private boards such as KGB and SEW.

Second KoS/Hellhole years (2008-2009)

It was in 2008 that TRC became one of the main troublemakers on GameFAQs again, first working with Kingpin and Amir, and later with Gavirulax, BigRedMachine, and MarioTheHedge. Throughout 2008 and 2009 via many individual efforts and collaborations they were responsible for well over 500 account thefts including many moderators on both GameFAQs and GameSpot. Most of the account suicides and various related activities took place on Hellhole, Current Events, and sometimes Life, the Universe, and Everything. The majority of the account suicides occurring in two major batches. The first in June of 2008 under the alias EndlessDoom with Gavirulax, together they suicided over 170 accounts on Hellhole, LUE and CE. The second major account suicide came to be known as DeCEmation and resulted in over 120 account suicides. It was also during this time that increased security features were implemented in regard to Moderator accounts due to the large amount of account thefts and security breaches.

Later years (2010-present)

TRC has been retired from trouble-making activities since 2010, his main account is TRC (#90944) and he currently posts on Hellhole, KGB, FFTSB, CE, and some secret boards.

External Links

• Moderator Board picture from 2001, contains topics mentioning TRC, Oakland and Narcoleptic Monkey on the GameFAQs Archive.
• Final Fantasy Tactics Legends List topic on the GameFAQs Archive.
• 2003 Current Events topic about the removal of rancid milk and TRC from the KoS List on the GameFAQs Archive.
• DivineWisdom Profile at -1304 karma on the GameFAQs Archive.
• Various topics related to the Endless Doom hackings on the GameFAQs Archive.
• SBAllen telling TRC he's not to make any more publicly known accounts on GameFAQs.
• TRC revealing the truth about the various hackings that occurred in 2008 on the GameFAQs Archive.