Rest in peace tony83

[Hamata]

tony 83 was a modder with rome total realisem and there is also a RIP thread for him at total war center


link here http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=484368

[Beskar]

Requiescat in pace.

I didn't know him, but I hope whoever he was, he finds peace awaiting him.

[Cute Wolf]

Tony never visit the ORG anyway, and there's few RTR and RS fans here... most of them are at TWC

RIP

[LeftEyeNine]

I see he passed away while on his favorite occupation. That's somewhat relieving for I think it is a better way if it has to get you one day.

RIP.

[Populus Romanus]

RIP Tony.

Interestingly, he has the same real life name as me.

[Samurai Waki]

I played RTR back when Rome was still THE game... but haven't since. I never knew of any of the modders (I don't have an account at TWC), but it was high quality, and that speaks volumes about Tony83.

[Hax]

I like waffles.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

RIP!

[Templar Knight]

Turns out he was a nice guy and a fake.

[Populus Romanus]

What do you mean, a "fake"?

[Templar Knight]

For the past 5-6 years he was posting photos of a male model, and claiming that it was him. He would also usually post pictures of this person in underware and encourage other male members of TWC to pose in underware too.

He claimed he was gay and had a boyfriend called Ian, no big deal there, however the model in question is straight and is a public figure, in a small way, but still somewhat famous in certain circles. It was brought to TWC attention on a number of occasions that this might result in slander and possible legal action. It could well be ID fraud.

His other accounts on other forums were active on 27th when we was supposed to have passed away on the 25th. The 'news' was broken by his 'brother' just hours after. Of cource these accounts may have been accessed by someone else.

His photos were taken off of TWC just a couple of days after his death when someone brought it to the attention of the forum staff, again. This time they finally took his images off.

Read more here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...4#post10387314

[Cute Wolf]

For the past 5-6 years he was posting photos of a male model, and claiming that it was him. He would also usually post pictures of this person in underware and encourage other male members of TWC to pose in underware too.

He claimed he was gay and had a boyfriend called Ian, no big deal there, however the model in question is straight and is a public figure, in a small way, but still somewhat famous in certain circles. It was brought to TWC attention on a number of occasions that this might result in slander and possible legal action. It could well be ID fraud.

His other accounts on other forums were active on 27th when we was supposed to have passed away on the 25th. The 'news' was broken by his 'brother' just hours after. Of cource these accounts may have been accessed by someone else.

His photos were taken off of TWC just a couple of days after his death when someone brought it to the attention of the forum staff, again. This time they finally took his images off.

Read more here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...4#post10387314

what?

[Populus Romanus]

Okay...this is bizzare to the extreme.

[Cute Wolf]

can anyone gave a light here and give a photo about how "the model in question" looks like?

I start to feel real pity for Tony if the real case is he just actually the model in question's lookalike and not really imitating him on purpose

[Templar Knight]

They dont look anything like each other, as was confirmed by his brother and forum members who had met him in person. He was living the life of someone else online, which many people will do, expect he done it over a period of 5 or so years at TWC.

[Cute Wolf]

They dont look anything like each other, as was confirmed by his brother and forum members who had met him in person. He was living the life of someone else online, which many people will do, expect he done it over a period of 5 or so years at TWC.

ugh, and just look for real photo collections myself, well...
Still, he's among the best modders over here, his skinning details was awesome, and RTRVII is still among the most polished mods outta here.

[Templar Knight]

If you ever seen the photos tony had posted claiming to be him, then thats what the model in question looks like.

Yeah he was a very talented person. He will be missed.

[Rhyfelwyr]

I popped into the "Say Cheese" thread at TWC sometimes.

Well that turned out to be quite a surreal story, not really sure how to feel.

[Templar Knight]

A lot of people at TWC said they wern't suprised by the news. My only question is: how did it go on for so long?

The fact is he was a nice, friendly, helpful guy but its just a shock to many that knew him that he was living a lie in a way.

[Rhyfelwyr]

But did you say that he might not actually be dead, that other accounts were still active?

[Templar Knight]

Other accounts that he used were still active 2 days afterwards, but as was said before and by others it could have been the admins or someone else.

We have to take it that he has passed away until we learn otherwise.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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[Templar Knight]

He is not dead according to the TWC admins after a detailed investigation.

The member "Tony83" posted pictures of another person claiming the images as his own. We have evidence that the person in the images is in no way associated with the user of the "Tony83" account. We are certain about the identity of the person in the photos and fairly confident about the true identity of "Tony83".

The user behind the Tony83 account has victimized some TWC members who shared images with him by posting their pictures, without their consent or knowledge, on other sites; some of which were pornography sites.

We are still investigating this case and we will consider further action if we feel it is necessary. If any member has exchanged pictures with that user please contact any administrator by PM and we may be able to assist at their removal.

We have no reason to believe that the member using the Tony83 account is deceased.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=487150

[Rhyfelwyr]

Um... wow.

[Peasant Phill]

Um... wow.

That's about all you can say about that.

[Templar Knight]

I suspected that he was still alive and had faked his death to try and avoid getting into trouble when the news broke about him being a fake and posting other members pictures on porn sites. Turns out I and many others were right.

[Cute Wolf]

Tony83 is among the best skilled modders....

too bad he does the impersonation of model artist and claiming he was gay...
and doing some straight bashing at TWC...

[Templar Knight]

Edit: For being silly

[Veho Nex]

Its like a giant soap opera! Hoozah ladies and gentlemen we are living in great times, great times indeed.

[TheLastDays]

I suggest you dig into the whole thread before leaking false information.
I have never really visited the TWC but even as a non TWCer I could do better than gathering your false info from the relevant thread.

I quote from the OP of that thread:

After a protracted and detailed investigation we have to inform the members about the following:

* The member "Tony83" posted pictures of another person claiming the images as his own. We have evidence that the person in the images is in no way associated with the user of the "Tony83" account. We are certain about the identity of the person in the photos and fairly confident about the true identity of "Tony83".
* The user behind the Tony83 account has victimized some TWC members who shared images with him by posting their pictures, without their consent or knowledge, on other sites; some of which were pornography sites.
* We are still investigating this case and we will consider further action if we feel it is necessary. If any member has exchanged pictures with that user please contact any administrator by PM and we may be able to assist at their removal.
* We have no reason to believe that the member using the Tony83 account is deceased.


We understand that internet anonymity offers people the chance to assume a persona which may differ from reality. However, that anonymity does not excuse the user of the Tony83 account from deceitfully exploiting others. His malicious behavior has forced us to make this announcement in order to protect the TWC membership and the site.

Thank you,

TWC

And a statement that was issued several times:

Keep the discussion within what's been stated in the Hex statement in the OP, or what has been disclosed by individuals directly involved. No name-calling, no accusations beyond the evidence presented.

tony83 had no Moderator rights, he has gained the trust of some members (some of these were obviously minors) and misused that trust to get them to send him compromising photos of themselves, which he then uploaded to various internet sites (some of them apparently porn sites).
tony83 also used pictures of a public figure, stating that those were photos of himself. This public figure has no direct connection to tony83, as far as the ones looking into it know.
No one but tony83 was involved, that is, as the perpetrator, several were obviously involved as victims, although there is no mention of an admin sending pictures to tony83.

I think, even though we are not members of TWC (some are) and this is not TWC, we should respect their request and we should stay away from speculating about their site, it's members or staff.
I think this thread should be closed.