Mission Statement
My name is Alistair Kavalt, and I'm the owner of OfficeOutlaw.com. Many of you knew me under the username 'Zwielicht', but these days, I no longer hide my identity from the community.
I don't want this mission statement to just be about me, but I do want to go over what inspired me to create this forum.
For some backstory, I initially created Office Outlaw in 2024 as a black hat office forum primarily focused on using unorthodox tactics in toxic corporate workplaces.
After my contract on 'the other forum' was terminated on March 10, 2025, I started working on Office Outlaw and decided to expand it into the black hat internet marketing industry. But then I had an idea: what if this forum could be more?
You see, those of us who do black hat internet marketing don't just stop with internet marketing. I noticed through being a part of this community for over a decade that being black hat is a lifestyle; it's something we just naturally gravitate toward in everything we do.
- Need to rank your site? You find out how to manipulate your rankings.
- Need to write an article? You train an AI model to write it for you.
- Need to get a job? You find unorthodox ways to make yourself stand out from the crowd.
- Need to get food cheaper? You make multiple accounts on food apps and take advantage of their first-time promotion deals over and over again.
- Need anything? You black hat it.
Some people will make you feel bad for using these tactics, but I would not be alive today if I hadn't lived like this. I know this is the case for many of us in the black hat internet marketing community, and it's why I decided to make this a black hat lifestyle forum with a focus on internet marketing.
I want this forum to be a chance for all of us to really engage with each other. I had ideas for the other forum on how to open up discourse without it causing any issues, and even though I never got a chance to explore all of these concepts with that forum, I now have the chance to do so with this forum.
However, I want this mission statement to serve as more than an introduction to this community. I want it to be a promise to the community that this forum will never become a corporate machine that takes advantage of the community. This forum will not devolve into a scammer's paradise because of poorly-thought-out rules that were only implemented to 'save money'. This forum will instead be a safe haven for members of the community to have a chance to really be themselves, because since joining this community, I've met some truly unique, smart individuals who just need an opportunity to grow.
We live in a world where so many are struggling and not everyone has hundreds of dollars to invest in making money online. I was in this position myself when I started, and it was my mother who gave me $10 to buy a domain name that really got me started in this industry. That $10 turned into a company that made over 6-figures a year for many years.
I'm confident this forum can be what I want it to be. But you know what? If these promises are ever broken, I want to be called out. I've never had an issue with fervent members who care about the community speaking up, and in fact, I admired them for doing so on the other forum, even when they were speaking up against me. I know I was never a perfect administrator or the best moderator, but I always strive to be better, and I want this forum to be a reflection of that.
If you can accept this, then I think you would enjoy being a member of Office Outlaw. If not, then know that there are some really good competitor forums that even I'm a member of that are a little different, more niche-focused, or even possibly more to your liking. That's right, discussing competitors is not prohibited here on Office Outlaw, because I'm not afraid of competition.