Why we are here, by Stargazer

[stargazer763]

Here's the rough story of what went down, as I saw it. I'm going to take a few posts to do this, so I can up my post count and not be a n00b.

Before Tuesday at 5pm EST:

Everything was great. The Sun was shining, birds were chirping, rainbows and shit.

Warning! TB is going to come out with some new TOU guidelines. We don't know when, but they're going to suck.

J13: Can we still fucking swear?
Well, yes, but not at each other. The perfect "fuck off" response will be bad, as will GTFO.
Parenting (THIS IS IMPORTANT): We still get our 3 warnings, right?
Oh yes, three warnings and then a ban.

Stargazer: Okay. I remember having to say he!l, so we can work around this. J13 is pretty tame anyway, so we'll all be fine. I wonder how TTGP will fare, though, since they get all the crazies.

lalalalalala Bunnies hopping, all sorts of pretty things.

[musicalsilver]

*refills mulled wine and pops some popcorn*

[stargazer763]

Tuesday at 5pm EST:

New rules go into effect. They're dumb.

Parenting: WTF HAPPENED TO OUR MODS! WHERE'S LakerMama66MAMA AND MACKALIEN13 AND THE OTHER ONE I CAN'T REMEMBER???

Oh yeah, they were banned. As in, IP banned. No 3 strikes.

Parenting: Do you see our shit? We just lost it. It's about to get REAL.

So, why did they get banned? Well, there was a post on Parenting (I have it saved as a word doc, but I'm not going to post it) about how XO group told the new rules to the mods, the mods replied, and XO basically said "NO1CURR."

XOgroup decided that the regs who built the community should be the ones to GTFO, and it appears that they wanted Kumbaya and all the crap on the other sites (that we all made fun of).

Parenting: OH IT'S ON, BITCH.

Threads were appearing all over the place, telling them exactly what to do with themselves. It was glorious. Those people were also immediately banned, with no warnings.

[daffy2k]

Beautifully done stargazer763

[heelibrarian]

I was so hoping for a good summary from Madame Secretary

[stargazer763]

I might get the order wrong on what happened next, because I was trying to catch up as well.

Everyone was trying to page BumpMay to get her to explain. Well, no one would say ANYTHING. She was silent, except to a newb on August 15 who was peeing herself about how excited she was that the place was all puppies and rainbows now. Let's just say Parenting was on that one pretty fast.

Lots of people posted 24 hours of silence posts, where they pledged to not post any words for 24 hours in order to try to force some answers.

BumpMay (I presume): Oh that's cute. Let me just do my evil laugh.

People also start requesting their accounts be deleted. Oh yeah, that's not going to happen.

J13: WTH is going on? Parenting is in shambles! At least we're all okay over here ... wait a minute, why is asmallwonder now just a member? What about @callmekd? (That was hard to remember your new name there.) Holy SHIT! We got us some badasses!

Yes, but that's not what happened. All mods went down to members. Which brings me to Wednesday night. Speaking of members ...

[stargazer763]

Wednesday night:

Parenting (what's left of it): So, remember that Larry thread that was like 32,000 posts?

Stargazer: Yeah, I never looked there. No way could I catch up on that HOLY SHIT THERE'S PORN.

And that's when I learned that "Larry" referred to fan-porn about one direction members (ha!) Liam Louis and Harry. There's such a thing as fan-porn. I had no idea.

1 woman on Parenting: I'm going to post all of the Larry porn gifs I can find ... wait, I've posted more that one and I'm not banned?

The interns are gone, and they removed all the mods! Let the gay porn reign!

LakerMama66mama: Imma tweet about this and make sure the companies that advertise on TB realize their ads are snuggling up against some sweet peen.

More porn.

ETA: I really don't get 1 direction. If I were younger though, I could totally see myself crushing on Harry. He looks like a bad boy that I would have wanted to try to tame. But now I feel dirty for saying it.

[stargazer763]

Thursday:
Porn removed. But the woman who posted it apparently WASN'T BANNED!?!?!
Stargazer: Whaaaaaaaaaa?

Now, threads are getting moved / deleted seemingly at random.

Oh shit! I forgot one important part!

Parenting: Where are our threads? Why do we now only have 1 page?
BumpMay: We've been hacked! Close the gates! Release the hounds!
Parenting: *cough* bullshit *cough*

(I don't know if it was BumpMay or if Parenting did it on purpose.)

BumpMay: Hey look, I have porn on my wall. Isn't that sweet.
BumpMay gets banned! Was it a hack? Is she a hack? It was awesome.
BumpMay: I'm back, and now I'm an admin! Suck it, losers! Oh, hey, look, more porn on my wall. How nice.

Was there anything else? That was a lot!

[moosemug]

If I knew how to gif I would give you a standing ovation. Nice job, Stargazer, thank you for summarizing this very confusing week for us!

[moosemug]

Also, your first post about the bunnies hopping around sitting nicely next to your profile picture made me giggle.

[stargazer763]

Jan 16, 2015 21:55:45 GMT -5 moosemug said:

Also, your first post about the bunnies hopping around sitting nicely next to your profile picture made me giggle.

Back in college, someone took this pic and photoshopped me into the Monty Python scene with the rabbit. It got removed from my college astronomy website, though, so I can't find it. The original will have to suffice!

[seej]

Yes, thank you for the awesomely clarifying clarification of what happened. I had the gist but things were disappearing as I was trying to keep up!

[daffy2k]

stargazer763 I am forever impressed by your ability to recap everything so perfectly.

[megsw85]

[subliminalrabbit]

[callmeKD]

Bravo! With one clarification. It was new "guidelines" that were released. Not a new TOU. This is why this is even more fucked up. Guidelines =/= TOU.

[callmeKD]

And thanks for remembering my new name. Xoxo

[babygsmommy]

Amazing job!!!

[megaroo64]

So helpful- this will make explaining all this to DH so much easier... Though it probably won't make him care more :/

[lioness13]

Thanks! This summary makes me realize I kept up pretty well.

[huckleberry08]

This was awesome. Thank you!

[heelibrarian]

stargazer763 I had to show the whole thing to DH to get him to understand. He straight up giggled

[amiet79]

Thanks for posting what happened. I missed all of that!

[LaBellaVida]

Thanks! I had no real idea of what went down, till it went down. This made it easy to understand.

[stargazer763]

Thanks, everyone! I hope you're all ready for the pop quiz on this later.

[nursemommy13]

Best summary ever.

[momofcatan]

Well done!

[xbluefrogx]

Wow. It's been awhile since I have been on, I can't believe this shit.

[natalie115]

Thanks! I knew what happened up until the porn thing (fan-porn is a thing? Who knew??) and had no idea that BumpMay got banned and had porn posted to her wall, that's fantastic.

[coffeebeanfiend]

This is very much appreciated. Now the random porn references make so much more sense.