[Raion]

Recently I was made aware of some nasty rumors spreading on Reddit and via a discord that shall not be named, and I wanted to make a post specifically for newer users and the unaware so people are not misled by our silence. 

• Firstly, the main founder (Me) is not a criminal. There's a persistent rumor and some comments from me from years ago that are being taken out of context. I have no criminal history. I have never been charged with any actual crimes and convicted, not even "reckless driving" which in the US is a Class 1 Misdemeanor (Meaning the most severe kind). As an adult my only "crimes" are related to urban exploration, wherein to explore abandoned places I have trespassed or in some cases disabled locks or doors on abandoned buildings. Like most urban explorers I follow a code of ethics that states to not break things like windows, not to damage buildings or steal artifacts etc. Any other rumors related to my "criminal history" are taken out of context, things I did as a teen (am I supposed to believe that nobody else did stupid stuff as a teen?), fabrications I told primarily to test if people were sharing my personal info (And it worked, whataya know?) 
  
• Secondly I have never ran anyone off from IRIXNet. I have had to make hard decisions to terminate people's positions here in the past (Something I no longer do alone, being there's others who help in those decisions) and I've had to ban a repeat offending user (along with a troll/doxxer who attacked me) but these were made after multiple attempts to remedy proved impossible. Anyone else claiming to have been ran off left of their own accord.
  
• Finally, I've made it a point since the mid-pandemic to not give a lot of energy to people like this. I only am speaking up because I had a user come here and ask me personally to confirm the veracity of claims. 
  
  Discord is a cancer, and Reddit is not much better. I maintain a presence on Reddit because I'm one of the few active leaders of the IRIX community who can quickly respond to questions and answers on Reddit, and I am also one of the fastest reactors to changes in the industry. I won't pretend my infrastructure is perfect, it's not and I'm working to fix that as we speak, but I can definitely say with certainty that I'm not a moron. Rumor mills hurt others, so I would recommend people to never consider gossip as the "Truth"