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Spike Alexis Damon or alexis is the name of a female freelance computer consultant from Pennsylvania that has been involved off and on in the Sonic community since 2000.

Introduction

Alexis was born on October 10, 1985 in North Hollywood, CA but has lived in Pennsylvania and New Jersey all her life. She is proficient at object-oriented programming, network infrastructure, and IRC. She enjoys trolling the clueless, flirting with the cute, and insulting the retarded.

Area 51 & Area 52

Alexis came on the scene during Sonic the Hedgehog's Area 51 days. She mainly lurked, sometimes posting comments in other's names (a practice that was allowed (and common) by the type of board used at the time). When Area 51 moved to an EZBoard, she started posting as her own username but was quickly shunned for her trolling ways. When then-also-unknown friend x64 took a leave of absence from the internet after a computer hardware issue, she used his account up until the end of the EZBoard era as he had already established a postcount and was somewhat known, rather than creating a new account which would be suspicious to post with.

After Jan Abaza left LOst in charge of Area 51, LOst started becoming more and more facist. At one point, removing post counts and replacing them with a ranking system that ranked users based on how important LOst thought you were. Alexis (then posting as x64) didn't feel this was fair, and after an incident where a fellow hacker receieved a large ranking due to a hack that was made using a tool alexis built but never got credit for, she decided to fork the board.

Either x64 or Rattleman created the Sonic the Hedgehog Area 52 message board, and both were given admin, along with alexis's own account and a few others. The message board was a complete copy of Area 51, with a few slight changes, most notably a ranking system based on postcount. For every 10-20 posts you made, you receieved an emerald beside your name, after the standard 7 colors, there were about 20 more nonstandard colors, followed by striped, gold, transparent, glowing, and platinum emeralds awarded for 1000,2000,3000,etc. posts. Moderators had black emeralds and admins had rainbow emeralds.

At one point there was a strong consensus that the Area 51 board, now run amok by LOst, needed to be shut down. There were efforts made by PACHUKA, and several others to do this on the grounds of copyright infrindgement and computer hacking assertions, but EZBoard didn't take the requests seriously. One night, alexis started at post 1 and worked her way up, catelogging a 21 page list of all posts and user profiles that contained copyright-infringing pictures, sound files, links to patches, roms, etc. The report was categorized into copyright infringing images, potential trade secret information, reverse engineering, hacking, and external links to infringing material sections. The next day, Area 51's message board was gone due to "terms of service violation".

After this, alexis left the Sonic community to persue the IRC daemon development community.

Return as Olene

Project Olene was a project led by a few people on EFnet, aimed at trolling small IRC network and forum owners by posing as a physically-attractive 18 year old that, gaining access, taking over the network or forum, and generally causing havok. Of the roughly estimated 16 individuals that portrayed the identity of Olene online, alexis was the last one with access to the Olene database of log files, contacts, and bouncer accounts. While portraying Olene, alexis connected to a small network known as espernet, and found a channel named #Lemonade, run by a small Sonic community known as Lemonheads. After unsucessful attempts to infiltrate the network staff, she decided to stay as the channel was mostly friendly. After about a year or so, there was a falling out and alexis left.

Return as herself

In the interim since leaving espernet and #lemonade, alexis decided to forgo the Olene persona as it was a receiving majorly negative reputation, and also because alexis wanted to just be herself for once. Alexis left EFnet (where Olene was headquartered) as Olene, noting that she was going on to "get a real life". She subsequently went back to lemonade, as herself. Unfortunately many people understandably noted that it was "Olene in disguise", even though it actually the reverse.

S2Beta

After #lemonade exiled alexis for presumably being tied to (i.e. "being the same person as") Olene, she followed some members to s2beta where she ironically entered a warzone, as literally one day prior, Qjimbo had taken over the community, posing as Tweaker and removing him. Qjimbo and alexis became friends rather quickly, and he appointed her a network administrator (more specifically, he gave her his o-line password, and she added her own oper account). At this time alexis was working on Scarlet, an object oriented-based IRC server that was modular and could run on any operating system and integrate with any type of information. Sazpaimon, who ran the s2beta IRC server, allowed alexis to attempt to integrate the IRC network and the S2Beta forum. Qjimbo, who had just forked the database to start Glowing Bridge also wanted her to do the same with his forum and network. Alexis chose s2beta since it was bigger, and successfully integrated the network and forum to the point where users would authenticate to their nicknames using their forum password, and their post count, forum title, and other information would show up as several lines in their /whois reply. Also, users and channels could subscribe via a set of user and channel modes to server notices informing them of any updates, edits, or new threads or users on the forum.

Glowing Bridge

All good things come to an end, and approximately 2 weeks later, Nikki, Sazpaimon's girlfriend, was showing increasing animosity for alexis, presumably because alexis had given a set of topless pictures to Sazpaimon to appease his relentless request for boobpix. As a result, alexis left, citing that she did not want to stay where she was not wanted. She started setting up the same system at Glowing Bridge, where she already had access. There was resistance from Fiz, who is rumored to have been sleeping with Qjimbo at the time. Fiz seemed to have some type of inferiority complex and responded by demanded that alexis "SHOULD NOT HAVE ACCESS" as seen in the following log that ironically took place in #peace:

21.29.13 <@Fiz> i have logs you dumb cunt
21.29.17 <@Fiz> dont fucking switch words around me
21.29.23 <@Fiz> im tired of dealing with this
21.29.31 <@Fiz> YOU SHOULD NOT
21.29.32 <@Fiz> HAVE FUCKING
21.29.33 <@Fiz> ACCESS
21.29.36 <@alexis> Why?
21.29.43 <@Fiz> i gave al lthe reasons there
21.29.50 <@Fiz> and if youre gonna go "well that has little to do with anything"
21.29.53 <@Fiz> then you can suck my asshole
21.30.03 <@Fiz> this shouldnt be a discussion between you and me
21.30.07 <@Fiz> this should between me and jim
21.30.10 <@Qjimbo> well
21.30.12 <@alexis> You can't seem to give a single concreate example of when I have screwed up on GB.
21.30.19 <@Fiz> you uh
21.30.21 <@alexis> You can't produce any evidence as to my incompetance.
21.30.25 <@alexis> Other than "you can't rehash a server"
21.30.36 <@Fiz> i dont know, its just what people at #s2beta said
21.30.55 <@alexis> Is that how you form opinions of people?
21.30.58 <@Fiz> NO OPINION
21.31.05 <@Fiz> THEY AR REASONS
21.31.07 <@Fiz> NOT OPINIONS

So again, alexis left the community as a result of another female having problems with her presence, even after more users voted to keep alexis than fiz, Qjimbo still sided with fiz.

Sonic Retro

Roughly 2 years after finding s2beta, alexis decided to give the community another try since Sazpaimon has since become addicted to what could only be crack cocaine and has since defected from the community, or rather the community defected from him.

Flash Animation

One of alexis's hobbies are creating short humorous flash animations. The animations she created as Olene can be found at[the chowned mirror site]. Alexis has also created parody's of Qjimbo's Michael Jackson's Sonic 3 presentation, which can be found [here].