What's with the forums?

[NegativeS]

Several years ago--or near enough not to matter--villains known as the Warriors of Spite drove off the CS, stewards of developer communication.

In the wake of this tainted deed, spite began to pour onto the board as if from unseen cracks. It pooled and swelled without cease within its threads in the face of continued unheard feedback, and eventually the day came when an enormous, blinding wave rose up and swept across the website.

We called this calamity the "Flood of Spite". Everything it touched was leeched of constructiveness and respect, leaving naught behind but an inactive wasteland.

Yet just when it seemed that all would be lost, a savior appeared before us...

The Oracle of Spite. He stood 'twixt us and approaching apathy, and by his trolling did he we embrace the Flood. Thus was this board, and this board alone, spared the fate of stagnation.

Tragedy would, however, arrive in another form. From the twisted live game descended horrors of strange and terrible level distribution to bedevil the few constructive folk who remain.

These "Titanmen" were Spite incarnate, and their robotic presence stole the originality from the trolls' posts.

...And thus did the forum become what it is.