Sure, it looks like the Deli has used similar inner workings, though, really, no one can be sure. Even in Kadjayuni's PnP regarding -BS- stats, we can't really be sure of the deeper meaning behind the numbers.
However, The Deli did not have members on the external forums bragging about how hard it is to hear people over the sound of how awesome they are. The Deli didn't have egoists out in full force promoting their vast superiority and "eliteness." The Deli didn't bother starting statistics threads meant to verify for the whole world their supremacy.
-Black Shadows- has done all of these things (or at least some of their members have--I mean not to implicate the alliance as a whole). So, is anyone surprised at the lack of popularity that leads to these musings? I comment not on whether or not any of these PnPs have been very fair, but my observation is quite valid.
At the heart of this issue, and the last few anti-BS-post-laden PnPs, for that matter, is that -Black Shadows- is very unpopular.
Frankly, if one boasts of how great they are, how exalted they are, to the annoyance of others, then one asks for the others to watch with baited breath their fall from grace, their eventual abasement.
And we all fall. We are all abased. Eventually. Only, in most cases, no one cares. (Which is not to say that BS is falling, as I do not believe that they are. However, I will submit that they are not as strong as they were a week ago. And however one construes the conquest of allianceless cities, that a PvP heavy alliance (or so self-reputed) would take the easy targets (and allianceless cities are just that--easy) does suggest a sudden fall of confidence in one's war power.
Suggests, not confirms.
But if one boasts and brags to the point of encouraging unpopularity, one gives a reason to care about the fall. To desire it. And to read that desire in any less than auspicious sign coming from the unpopular party.
