In August 2019, Executives and other elite staff members under the Seth administration conspired to rig the results of the Senior Admin voting stage in order to prevent Luke (a promising candidate who they disliked) from reaching Senior Admin status. They did this by deleting a number of votes favorable to him. StevenNL2000, who had noticed this, privately raised concerns about the integrity of the results to Zaid (the Executive Admin Officer at the time), who ignored his concerns because Zaid was in on it, unbeknownst to Steven at the time.
In April 2020, Zaid (who had long since been excommunicated from TF as a whole after the group changed the narrative to make him appear as a racist) became a whistleblower, creating a public thread that detailed the massive amount of corruption in the Seth administration (which mentioned the conspiracy) and apologized to those he felt he wronged. The thread sent shockwaves throughout the community, sparked a chain reaction in which Luke and I (both operators at the time) publicly exposed additional instances of corruption jointly over the next few weeks, and started the beginning of the end of the so-called Smartn't era.
Robin and Ivan immediately stepped down. In the end, nearly every staff member in that group either went inactive, resigned, got suspended, or got permanently banned from the server. The revelations sparked an urgent need for accountability within the staff team, which led to the formation of Internal Affairs. While all of this happened years ago, the impact it had on the community lingers on to this very day.
Evidence of the conspiracy
Here is a series of entries from the ProBoards audit log, showing that Robin secretly deleted votes favoring Luke:
Here are some messages from the group chat right after Robin nuked the votes:
Here's the PM Steven sent to Zaid after he noticed the discrepancy:
Here are some messages from the group chat, which shows the group's reaction to Steven's PM:
