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Possible corruption in Anipike.

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I have been dealing with Ron Scovil Jr. (C.E.O of Anipike) for quite some time now. I have found his actions to be quite aggressive in the last few months.

There have been many concerns and actions to the increase in rules for the forum and IRC chat. Originally I felt Ronald was being aggressive in the rules solely for bragging pleasures and acts of inner aggressions.

After reading an old article posted on ANN I started to become more interested in this subject. My first interpellation was that Ronald was fighting for the better good of all otakus. After further investigation I have learned some startelling facts. Ron Scovil Jr. was close friends with the creator of Sailor Moon. I believe his acts were not in the best interest of others but in fact it was his own personal grudge against the head of MixxZine.

Ronald's actions at this point started to interest me more and more; I started to feel that there was something missing. He has failed to explain his actions and was ignoring all contact about the rules. All of his actions were not explained and had no true purpose other then to anger other user's of Anipike services.

Why was Ronald creating stricter rules when they wanted to get more people to use Anipike? It makes no sense to create stricter rules when it can hurt Anipike's image. The second question I thought about dealt with on of the major things behind Anipike. Why did Ronald sell Anipike, a non-profit organization, to a company based on selling merchandise?

I then started to think back when about conversations I had with Ron before he chose to ban me from both the chat and the forum for expressing my views on his actions. I remember many of the talks we had about money. Ronald was constantly buying merchandise online. When I commented about the cost of such goods he replied that they were "gifts". He commented on how he bought the items and then gave them away when he was tired of them. I felt this to be quite unnerving. I felt that Ronald had more money then he knew what to do with.

I also remembered back to another conversation we had back then about his travel budge for Anipike. Anipike's travel budget was if I remember correctly $10,000 a year est. After talking to several employees of Anipike, all of which I will keep anonymous for now. They told me that Ronald spent no money out of the budget to pay for the admissions for Anime events. I found this information to be quite disturbing as well.

Anipike was growing bigger and the staff for the most part worked for free. From my knowledge only 3 people are paid on the staff. Ronald Scovil, Pre, and Hawk. With more investigation I found that the server cost was only about $550 a month. I knew something was up at this point.

After combining all of the facts I came up with a theory. I believe that Ronald is creating strict rules so that he my rid himself of the extra cost for the IRC server and the Forum server. By ridding himself of both the chat and forum, or at least making them small enough so that he can manage them alone. He would be able to get rid of Hawk, the IRC server operator. Pre as well would be cut in pay since he would no longer be needed for the forum.

In the last few days as well, Anipike started to advertise on their site. I found Ronald was increasing the money flow into Anipike and decreasing on cost at the same time.

The final step would soon come about. I have heard rumors about a partnership with Anipike. I am not sure who will be the partner but I would not be surprised of Ronald Scovil used his partner as a scapegoat for his possible money laundering.

I thank you for your time reading this thread. I hope that this subject will interest ANN and that ANN will see this is a great opportunity to make come out with a major story release.