On October 29, 2007 a banned player going by the names Error404 and PANCAKES impersonated the GOONS leader 404Error. Having hacked the real 404Error, as acknowledged by 404Error, he managed to get access to GOONS's offsite forums and private, password-protected IRC channel where he convinced a handful of nations to attack GPA, as well as directing a nation-less member, Artemicion, to post a DoW on GPA on the CN forums. The DoW was quickly deleted by forum mod Vivi on the grounds of being a joke thread, and Artemicion was warned. Artemicion then posted screenshots showing one GOONS nation attacking one GPA nation; this thread was locked by SwordofEstel, who then banned Artemicion for "no in-game nation match". The rapid deletion of the DoW and lock of the screenshots thread led to most in t