Void

**Void**, also known as **Void Sans** or **System Shark**, was a fucking dumbass and well-known user of Polytope Discord, and to a lesser extent, Googology Server. Void is best known for their extensive yet frivolous conversations, distinctive typing style, and habits. Within only a few months, they became one of the most active users on PD, despite not making significant contributions to coding, exploration of polytopes, or teaching others about the field. Three of the rules of PD were specifically made to rein in Void's behavior, far surpassing the runner-up, Ker, with only one rule.

Void was invited to Polytope Discord by Spiritbackup, unlike most new members who arrive via Jan Misali's video. Void was also a member of GS for some time before joining PD (but caused no trouble there), as well as Jacorb's Games and Verse and Dimensions (which they were banned from).

## General behavior

Void communicates in a very "stream-of-consciousness" way, resulting in many short messages. Believing it is more important to respond quickly (so the response is not buried and disconnected) rather than take time, Void's messages feature numerous typos, and often different misspellings of a word until the right spelling is achieved (rather than edit the original message and carefully spell out the word in question). They also inject their meme-centric sense of humor into conversations; their repertoire includes such things as "copying" what one has just said, "your mom" jokes, and "when the imposter is sus" or "Amogus" memes, to name a few. It is not uncommon to find Void typing in ALL CAPS if something is not going their way; this usually goes hand-in-hand with a string of gibberish indicating frustration.

Occasionally Void will interrupt a serious conversation to ask the meaning of some term that's being used. They will then state that they don't understand the answer and complain about how everyone else is using jargon. And by the time someone walks them through a simplified explanation, it becomes clear that Void didn't really care in the first place, dismissing the explainers with an "ok i get it now" and then probably asking the same question again later.

When laid out in such a manner, these grievances seem petty. However, the sheer *volume* of them that one experiences in conversation with Void, or even receives secondhand by sharing a server with them, is enough to get under the skin of even the most relaxed admin.

Void became less annoying over time, though. When it was spelled out in excruciating detail that copying what people have just said was considered annoying and *not* funny, Void stopped the behavior almost immediately. And when official rules were made that prohibited excessively NSFW talk and "purposely being annoying," Void made efforts to comply, although this didn't stop them entirely.

Void has been known to quarrel with Spiritbackup and to make damaging and suicidal outbursts, which the administration of Polytope Discord do not consider themselves qualified to handle.

## The Crindcident

One of the earlier notable "incidents" involving Void took place in January 2021. Void entered a conversation about "round shapes", and despite repeated explanations, did not understand the difference between a "crind" (the solid formed by the intersection of two cylinders) and a "bicone" (basically two cones glued together back-to-back). It is the author's view that the given depiction of the crind contributed to the issue, as it can resemble a bicone at first glance. However, multiple other images of the crind were presented, both static and animated.

If any other user had been involved, such an occurrence would not need to be written about, let alone remembered. It would just have been another slight misunderstanding leading to a learning moment. However, Void's loud persistence that the two solids were, in fact, one and the same was could not be forgotten by Polytope Discord users. And in the months to come, other incidents borne of Void's stubborn insistence on absurd things would follow in the footsteps of the Crindcident.

## Other notable incidents

In late January 2021, Void added a page to the [./https://esoteric-concepts-lore.fandom.com/wiki/Polytope\_Wiki Polytope Wiki] that was deemed a shitpost by the wiki contributors. Again, when laid out like this, the grievances seem petty, but those who had to deal with them constantly would say otherwise.

About a week later, Void invited a user known as [./https://esoteric-concepts-lore.fandom.com/wiki/STOP STOP] to Polytope Discord on the basis of them being friends. STOP soon had to be banned for repeated transphobic and in general disrespectful comments.

In March 2021, Void inadvertently annoyed the night moderator Yoylecake enough to drive her off the server. This prompted an outburst from Void upon realizing what they had done, leading to a temporary ban. And a few weeks later, Void was involved in a small incident that caused *another* semi-regular member to leave the server.

On April 19 2021, after Googology Server user Yto supported the mass murder of anti-maskers, Void asked what happened on GS in Polytope Discord's off-topic chat. After this was explained, Void essentially agreed with this position on the grounds that those people endanger lives. It got heated enough that Hitler and the Nazis got invoked at one point. Eventually URL came in and realized what was going on, that Void probably violated several rules, and promptly gave Void two strikes. This resulted in Void getting banned for two weeks.

Upon returning from this ban in early May 2021, Void showed negligible improvement, except for sometimes being reluctant to argue for fear of someone tricking them into saying something controversial. After about a week, though, they got into another fight with Spiritbackup right after an excruciating debate over whether 2D things have backsides, blown out of proportion by none other than Void. The admins of Polytope Discord reached the consensus that the constant drama would not stop on any reasonable timescale, and so Void was banned.

Void has made several alt-accounts in attempts to get back into Polytope Discord. Directly after the ban, there were a couple that didn't do much. Early June 2021 saw a pair of *Among Us*-themed alts insisting that people were "sus" and should be "ejected," and mid-June saw an alt that brought back the ceaseless NSFW talk that few had missed.