<Snipped quote by The Spectre>
There's a fun story.
Googer founded this RP back in 2010 on the Sporum but from what I understand (I wasn't around then), they jumped off that sinking ship and migrated to Minecraft Forums (MCF) in 2011-2012, where it continued for a few years. The admin of MCF, a squid named Citric, took a page from Stalins book and started purging the "Other" section of things he disliked - swearing, politics and chat threads. HugtheZombie/Pepperm1nts and Feokris/Shyri, two of our own, had infiltrated the moderators outer circles and the Precipricks tried to encourage better-quality RP through them. There was even a roleplay discussion thread that had slipped through the cracks and basically became a place for us to shitpost, chat and advertise new RP's. Anyway, somehow Citric found out and started purging the Roleplay section. Feo got put into "retirement" and Hugs was outright de-modded for "neglecting their duties" (not enforcing the swear ban properly, allowing a chat thread to exist). I think Evan or Vilage even got banned or something. We eventually found out a guy on the forum who disliked us had sold us out to the secret police and then Aaron dragged us over here 2 years ago or so. The old threads are still up, buried beneath highschool RPs and Aaron still shitposts there sometimes.
The way we left the sporum was sorta similar.
To tell as a man who had lived:
Gorgenmast created the original Precipice of War in 2010. He ran it for a few months and I was elected as its new leader. I led Precipice up until somewhere in 2011 when I decided to take the RP and jump-ship. It had also in a way been sort of in a coma state for a while before.
But on the Spore Forums (Sporums) I and Vilage ran with a clique (the Emoticones) that protested the mods who were left to enforce the rules of the forums after the admins straight-up disappeared. They created a system of rotating week-long bans to suppress people they disapproved of and basically went about that thing that creates bad communities around franchises: create and encourage an echo-chamber.
Ironically I count myself a friend with an old mod from there, Slyth. He's left the forums behind and might - like me - check up on it and is shocked that some of the old moderating faces still try to moderate it and expresses a morbid fascination that the key mod that Vilage and I weren't on good terms with, BlackBird stuck around so long. Another, named Slime still moderates too, but we think that's just because he's an unemployed Greek youth.
The RP on the MCF lasted a long-ass time. But yea, things started to get iffy when the administration there tried to reel things in. In retrospect I think these things were done to sort of make a space for all the young people getting into Minecraft could come and connect and marked the beginning of the trend where Minecraft became a thirteen year-olds play pen as opposed to the trendy adult hipster's sandbox. So the change is rules reflected a sort of change in demographics.
Still: all the same we were at the bottom of the list in the off-topic section and were rather ignored. But then the admins totally deleted the politics sub-forum and re-negged on a compromise for a swearing filter and enforced absolute censorship on foul language that still exists (I just had my rotating signature removed because an admin noticed it contained vulgarity).
The ship was sunk for PoW when the attention of the admins directly came to RP. We had managed at the time to get a stickies chat thread which became the RP hang-out for old-fags and new. Admittedly at the time we were shitposting and spamming for amusement with some other folk. But probably because Hugs posted and joined in without doing anything, he got murdered and Feo forced from office and several of us banned outright. The sticky was unstuck and locked and it wasn't until there was a campaign in the last days of our twilight time there that the admins capitulated and brought it back.
And fast-forward to 2016 and I end up playing MvM by complete random chance with one of the people who took offense with out existence.
We didn't talk about it, and I didn't bother with spamming, "WE KNOW" in chat.
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