Real-World Warrior
Category/classification - not a warrior but a technique worthy of its own mention, see below.
The Real-World Warrior uses complaints to Landlords aka hosting services and ISPs, threats of lawsuits, law-enforcement agents, the media, or other real-world means to influence or destroy a forum or its members.
Usually targets controversial forums like Neo-Nazi supporters or "illegal" forums like those that trade warez, stolen passwords, cracking or spamming tools, and the like.
This Warrior is generally regarded as Good And Nobel when they restrict their targets to "illegal" groups and Bad And Evil when attacking groups for merely exercising Free Speech.
If not careful Real-World Warrior can wind up on the wrong end of a Real-World Lawsuit.
Effective Real-World Warriors rely on Terms-Of-Service agreements and enforcement, a good knowledge of the law, the the reluctance of their targets to exposed in The Real World.
They are most effective against forums on free web-hosting services. They on the host to simply kill off controversial forums rather than go to the expense of doing a proper investigation and determining that the forum does not violate any agreement or law.
When this Warrior successfully attacks an entire group, the entire group typically reconstitutes itself elsewhere. They've been through this before and know they'll be through it again.
Category/classification:
Real-World Warrior is not a warrior per se but an attribute of other warriors particularly Landlord, Deleter, Assassin, The Sherriff, or The General. May also be used by Eagle Scout or SuperEgoSurfer.
Notable examples:
* Spammers and anti-spammers, in their fight to kill each other off.
* Churches, cults, and religious organizations, in an effort to chill internal dissent or outside investigations into questionable practices.
* The RIAA and MPAA, in their fight to enforce copyright violations against 78-year-old grandmothers.
