Civ001 wrote:I heard that there was a terrible war between the boards of Spacebattles.com and Stardestroyer.net and a few other web forums a long time ago and I want to know what was that war like there? What are some of the details about the conflict?
it was hardly ancient it seemed to have started in 01 and then migrated to other forums and it didn't end until about 07 and I'm proud to say I think I participated in one of the last battles of that..'multi forum cluster fuck"
mojo wrote:i have always thought it would be rude and irritating to beg for that kind of thing, but i would also be EXTREMELY INTERESTED in any stories about what happened before i showed up. not that anyone's obligated or anything, but if someone is going to ask, i'll definitely back up that curiosity with my own. i've read everything i could find so far as debates between the larger personalities and kind of hit a brick wall where all that's left is little tidbits where someone mentions something but noone kept a record or anything. so if anyone has the time and inclination, there is definitely an audience for anything like this.
Well I can't talk about SB but if you want to know the history of that wars other forum conflicts I'll tell you about it! I do know that CrossoverManiac and GStone (who I believe posted on CBR as well I some what remember him from my newbish days) had various debates with wong and SDN in general over on SDN and SB which culminated in three infamous threads that created SDN's 'convert the idiots" policy...which culminated in Wong launching a huge ass invasion of..the older Comic and anime vs debating world
essentially what happened was a few SDN regulars had been vets on CBR through them many SDN'ers joined rumbles also a place called KMC and another place called SHC those three forums (CBr SHC and KMC) had been enemies and hotly contested various issues...and what ever but the point is through those regulars who posted on all those boards SDN gradually started finding other fictions that could beat up wars..and naturally your typical SDN rage responses would follow. Well one day some one named vcreed or ChuckG created a thread called "Godzilla vs Curoscant" which involved a bunch of SDN'ers trying and failing catastrophically to prove imperial capital could handle Godzilla (really they can't honestly) which resulted in them raging to Wong, Wong then argued that while there are retards on that board it wasn't the worse thing out there as that would be any place DS posts on..and what ever
Spacebattles at the time was slowly becoming more pro-Wong so allot of their effort went to other forums, SB'ers who disagreed with Wongs way of thinking many of them joined CBR it got intense which culminated in a thread regarding the Borg vs the TF and a few hundred TIE fighters vs the USS Defiant, these threads resulted in allot of their EU crap being debunked a wide scale rejection of the ICS and numerous posters basically telling SDn'ers they thought Wong was a liar a fraud and a crazy person. Wong responded by declaring war on comic boards. Which resulted in hilarious threads like Galactus vs the Empire and the like which got linked up on CBR and SHC by SB'ers who lurked on SDN, the posters on CBR and SHC mocked and made fun of wong and pretty much just treated him and his site like crazy fringe people, which Wong didn't take well and he launched a huge ass board war against those three forums SHC and CBR ended up allies KMC was neutral or sided with SDN
it was pretty terrible I spent two years dealing with that garbage it was distracting and stressful imagine if you will dealing with about 25 SWST style debaters at the same time alone in a thread when all your back up is either asleep or in school- well this happened allot.
it kinda ended in 2007 when SHC and CBR basically just started mass banning and persecutions against SDN members with the mods making rules specifically designed to limit what was allowed to be used for star wars- I'm not sure if we came out looking like the good guys or bigger douchebags then SDN considering how harshly the average Rumbler treats posters from SDN and their vassal forums like Spacebattles is pretty negative but all the same.
it was messy, there were server crashes possible hacks literally hundreds of bans year long thread moratoriums..and multiple invasions of SB and SDN and their incursions
so that's the side conflict really SB was the main focus and we just got swept into it and it raged from 2003/2004- January 07
then there was peace and rest and nothing really insane happened until about 2009 when the Phenom Brigade launched a mass invasion of SDN which is more hilarious
I'll tell you about that if you want to risk getting a migraine from all the fail and stupid that was that board war.