BF2S Forums The Story of BF2s, Late 2007.

Wall of text incoming.  It is not to be taken with too much seriousness, as it is mostly parodizing the past year's events. If you feel offended, I didn't intend to offend you. (That goes out especially to the mod team and chuy/Kimmy. )

_{^{IF THERE ARE ANY CHRONOLOGICAL ERRORS (EVEN FATAL ONES MAY OCCUR), I APOLOGIZE. I JUST RIPPED THIS STRAIGHT OUT OF MY HEAD. I MAY HAVE MIXED UP SOME IMPORTANT THINGS.}}

Where shall we start? Of all shit on the internet it can't be too hard to think of something to rant about, and I've been thinking for this for maybe an hour or so. I know! Let's start with ranting about all the changes BF2s went through in 2007.

The retardation levels on BF2s just keep climbing (No, I'm not all innocent ). The number of bans has been immense the last months. How can this be? I think we can track the problem back before to the renaming of the Junk Drawer, wich caused a huge hormonic change in BF2s regulars hormonic balance. But before we go into that, we've got the sequel of the 10 000 Replies, Lez Do It! series of threads that spawned the idea of renaming Junk Drawer.

Our beloved ig created the wonderful thread of 10 000 Replies, may he live for eternety.
The thread quickly became the most popular thread in the history of BF2s, but people could not contain themselves, now when they had the opportunity to spam unlimitedly. But as with all popular things, the mods disliked and closed it. This caused tremendous riots and fights within the BF2s community, and anarchy was approaching, unless the mods would do something, the population would eventually end up getting themselves banned. In a heroic attempt to save the population and BF2s, TMo re-opened the thread, and the riots faded. People poored in and started posting again, but were strictly forced by a proletarian police force to keep their posts reasonable, or they would be kicked out of society and stamped as lulzkillers for the rest of their lives.

After a very long and healthy life of over two weeks, the humongous thread contained over 9000 posts, and battles would rage and bets would be set, of who would get the ten-thousand post. People would post more than ever when the posts reached the high 9000's. Never before had such intensity been seen in a thread before. And finally, CameronPoe got the 10,000th post, and the mods closed the thread again, even though the people were presenting strong will to make it a 20 000 replies-thread.

This sparked the inevatable reaction of every internet user when an epic thread is closed; Reposting. The Junk Drawer was litterarly flooded with variations of it; 10 000 replies, Lez Do It Again, 10 Replies, Lez Do It, 0 Replies, Lez Do It, 20 000 Replies, Lez Do It, and so on. The closing of the 10 000 Replies, Lez Do It had caused a hole in the hearts of the BF2s regulars, and they were trying to fill that hole. Little did they know what evil plans the mods had for the future of Junk Drawer...

When the ever so wise Emperor Chuyskywalker saw what dark forces were plauging the BF2s board, he thought it'd be a keen idea to step in and try to fix it, once and for all. Little did he know of what consequences his actions would cause...

After a long time of meditating and thinking, he decided that the cause of all the darkness was the name of the section; The Junk Drawer. He thought that the Junk in the name would attract the dark forces of spam and decay, acting as a magnet, with it's meaning of worthlessness and uselessness. With a swift stroke of his power, he converted the Junk Drawer to... General Chatter! A naming that he thought would drive out the dark forces of spam and decay, but, for the first time in many, many years, his wisdom would prove to be incorrect and almost fatal. With this action, he took the last thing the inhabitants valued over their lives - The Junk Drawer.

This leads us back to the hormonic imbalance that we saw earlier. Let's dig a little deeper into it, now that we're briefed.

This hormonic inbalance caused the brains of BF2s regulars to slow down, and the routing centras for spam often got damaged. This caused the spam levels of BF2s to increase even more and would soon force the mods into action, with more closes and bans than ever before, as it is the mods natural reaction to spam.

After some time of this, several "The thread to contain allt he spam" and alikes appeared on the BF2s stage, but was soon closed due to them not doing their job. Then, the BF2s regulars started regaining their hormonal balance, little by little, and started protesting against General Chatter. The mods attempts to hide this had failed miserably, and soon a communist party was raised in BF2s, and they started taking over, with catchy slogans as "In soviet Junk Drawer, Junk Draws You!" and "Stand up to the oppression - Junk Drawer for the people!".

Communist/Soviet Junk Drawer sigs, Bring back the Junk Drawer and other posters were placed all over, and the mods had to fight harder than ever before to maintain their leadership. After many hard struggles and bloody battles, the mods managed to push down the communist party and movement with brute force, by removing key person's sigs and more banning. The original Soviet Junk Drawer sig series by me, and/or other similar-themed ones were banned. Order was restored. For the moment.

Some time passed, whiles BF2s was almost back to "normal", and the ammount of spam wasn't extreme. Until some users started noticing some errors and artifacts in the layout... And slowdowns... And non-working PMs/Karma... Until GIBSON DIED!

Panic broke loose. BF2s was down. The population was homeless! The brain damage recieved from the Junk Drawer remaining became obvious as the members started panicing, searching for a place to stay. Some went to 4chan, others to other aming sites, some started playing BF2 in share despair, but they soon gave up - They couldn't get their stats delivered in a good way anymore! IRC got more populated than ever before, rumors broke out of what'd happened, it was total chaos.

Then, out of nowhere, on the initiative of our lovely DeathUnlimited, liquidat0r set up a sub-domain at his site - bf2s.liquidat0r.com - and installed a PunBB forum on his webserver. The BF2s refugees soon started finding this place, as they rised from the ashes of BF2s and spayed over the horizont. They found the Temp Forums, a town in the desert of the Internet, Karma-less and with many of the features BF2s had unavailable. The brain damage that the users had recieved in the crash now became painfully obvious. The spam controlling abilities of the majority fo the userbase was completely gone, and since this was a "New and temporary" place, nobody seemed to take it seriously. In the belief that BF2s would be up soon, they (And me, yes) acted out in complete idiocy. Spamming more than ever, fucking around, playing with the patience of the higher power. Little did they know that they would have to stay here for a month...

The days went by, and even though the situation calmed down, it would never become as good as the real BF2s. The mods did tolerate more at this place, but they soon gave in to the reports and the gut feeling. They broke out the emergency banhammer, and used it with love! Spammers spammed, got banned and made new accounts. Over and over again. After about two weeks of temp BF2s, people started realizing that it'd take a lot more time than expected to get BF2s back up again. They started accepting the fact that this place might be their home for quite a long time, and thus, they started settling down a bit, actually being a little serious.

Under this whole time, liquidat0r worked on getting more plugins and making the Temp Forums look as much as the real forums as possible. He tried different Karma systems and BF2s templates, to little recognition among the population. Finally he gave in with the Karma system (Gotta admit, it was my fault, sorry liq. ) and made it random instead. The random Karma Generator did ensure lots of lulz would be had, as people raced to get epic Karma numbers, such as 666, 1, 0 and 1337.

They lived there for the month, and under that month, the trolls also found their way in. Androo, c-dog (Also known as .) and a possible Supah came in and sang their song, togheter witht he rest of the users, as in old times. Horrible grammar and poor insults would cheer up the day, as cdogmn wud pwn ur azz from time to time.

Soon enough, chuy and duk0r got Gibson back up, and the real BF2s back up, about 1.5 months ago. The people would slowly find their way back to BF2s, only to be met by a horriffic sight. Tons of Karma wsa missing, along with topics and PMs, stuff was falling apart, and salvaging any personal items was nearly impossible.

But then came the real punch in the face - The sigs were gone... If you put up your old sig, you'd get an AWM with a link to the most horrifying post in post-apocalyptic BF2s... The new sig rules-post by the Emperor. Signatures were now limited to FORTY pixels in height, and could be accompanied by a minimal 180x60px avatar! Immense riots broke loose, almost in the same caliber as the Junk Drawer riots. Sigs and avatars with complaints about the rules were created and banned, just as the Empire dealt with the communist party, they shattered the opposition with brute force. The brain injuries of the inhabitants became very obvious once again, and the forum was almost killed in wave after wave of spam. The fact that 4chan had been attacked at times didn't help, since 4chan users would post their spam on BF2s instead. But after some fighting and battling against ever so hard enemies, BF2s is now back at at least some of it's former glory, with a healthy userbase and active, relatively spam-free people.

- THE END! -

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Phew, now my fingers are tired, that thing took ~2.5 hours to write! Hope you enjoyed.

I know I've propably got half of the facts wrong. What I'm least sure about is the chronological order. Since so many threads got lost (Or can't be found) after the crash, I had a hard time doing some of this (Like the 10 000 replies/Junk Drawer part). Hope you don't mind.

Last edited by Freezer7Pro (2008-01-07 13:28:54)