3zy's note: Here's a log that needs
a bit of explanation. If you don't need the history, you can go ahead
and jump to the log without any
hassles. It's all ASCII text, since it's a bit too long to put
through the mill like the rest of them.
Following the decline of the nWWWo forum, a forum based around the Rantsylvania "supersite" sprouted up. It really cooked for awhile, then apparently it boiled, scalded, and curdled. The place was strictly in Lord of the Flies mode when head fella Scott Keith decided to pull the plug. I'd stuck my head in there exactly twice before the decision to pull the plug was made, but I knew the place meant something to more than a few people, so Terralthra and I, as ordained ministers of the Thread Church (really, we got our credentials online from Universal Life Church and everything), declared Jubilee for the final 24 hours of its existence.
The Biblical Jubilee happened every 50
years in Israel (or would've...I'm a bit rusty on whether anybody ever
put it into practice). All debts were forgiven, all wars called
off, all slaves freed, and people feasted and were happy. That
seemed appropriate enough for the situation as it stood. There
was a Holy War in progress, and I thought it would be an original idea
to ask for one day of Holy Peace, hitting the reset button before we
went back to the inevitable kicking the crap out of each other.
For the most part, it came off pretty well, and just before midnight
Eastern time, we sealed
the doors to send the forum out with a modicum of half-assed
dignity. Then we moved the party to the Thread aPa
chatroom, and an ungodly number of people showed up to chew the
fat. Before Snow cut the log on, SK showed up long enough to
ask if we were done, then threw the switch to stop new posts (but
thankfully didn't hit the delete button on the whole forum).
SK
took his RS.com party to EZ Board, which apparently had tighter
controls, but that didn't last much longer than it took to write this
sentence. After all sorts of ungodly melodrama with contributors
and partners, he folded what
was left of the site (thesmarks.com, by that time) into 411 Wrestling, and migrated to Inside Pulse during a slightly
more benign schism. He got a book deal in there somewhere, and is
loved, dreaded, and/or scorned in various circles. That's why
they make chocolate and vanilla,
I guess.