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Hey, someone tell me the story of Barbelith closing.

 
 
Jack Denfeld
10:14 / 01.02.03
I took time off from Barbelith for a bit, and I think I missed Barbelith closing. Doing a search, I still couldn't find the whole story. Just bits and pieces. People mentioning the board was closed for a period of time, people being kicked off. Threatening emails to Tom. I heard a rumor somewhere else about Barbelith becoming an invite only board for a while. So could someone give me a juicy, detailed account of what happened? Was the board getting crazy?
 
 
Spatula Clarke
14:00 / 01.02.03
There's not really anything juicy to tell - it's a pretty boring story about a pretty pathetic individual. The board became a playground for someone and as a result their suit was erased. They'd set up a number of extra suits (presumably as this was always their intention) and started using those as backups. They were also erased.

Then a couple of regular suits were cracked into and used to send messages to Tom in order to pretend that non-troll, admired members of the board wanted the individual responsible to have their posting rights reinstated. This ruse was entirely unsuccessful, so our friend revealed that even *more* backup suits had been registered.

The board was closed to new members as a response, preventing the creation of yet more backup suits. New members had to be sponsored by an existing member. The emails to Tom weren't threatening, just desperately sad. As I understand it, though, they were pretty spammy, coming thick and fast.

That's it. Is this not in the wiki?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:54 / 01.02.03
The whole thing was just fundamentally depressing. You should be glad you weren't there.
 
 
Mazarine
23:34 / 01.02.03
It was also tiring.
 
 
Andrew C*** passing himself of as Haus
02:08 / 03.02.03
The individual in question was a complete knobhead too.
 
 
Jack Fear
12:45 / 03.02.03
But he seems to have gotten better.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:00 / 03.02.03
I hid under my duvet the entire time and pretended I didn't exist.
 
 
Sax
09:46 / 04.02.03
It was, like, our Crisis on Infinite Earths, man. The sky went red and everything, and then one day we woke up and... was it a dream? A hoax? An imaginary tale?

This ish, someone DIES!

I believe copies of it are changing hands for upwards of seven quid at marts. Poly-bagged with acid-free cardboard, of course.

Welcome to the Silver Age.
 
 
Graeme McMillan
21:58 / 05.02.03
Nah, Eloi was Crisis. This was clearly Zero Hour.

Or Secret Wars.
 
 
gingerbop
20:37 / 29.04.03
Yeah, I tried to join aageess ago, but it said that it was unlikely i could join if i had a free email account like hotmail, and i think it said somethin about needin a reference from a lither, or something strange like that. Very glad that evil has been defeated, and good restored.
 
 
Tom Coates
12:07 / 01.05.03
Yes well, we're still actually waiting to make sure that that's the case...
 
 
gingerbop
21:39 / 01.05.03
Im glad evil has been reduced to a small enough extent not to annoy me. Or maybe i just dont see it.
 
 
specofdust
12:27 / 03.05.03
Thanks for telling the story, must admit I wondered a fair bit about that. Anyway, I'm glad it's probably over
 
 
bio k9
05:18 / 12.05.03
but every so often...
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
13:40 / 20.05.03
We created a universe made entirely out of cheese, and moved the board there for a few months. Unfortunately, there was a problem - an event something like a cross between a massive black hole and a fondue - and we were forced to flee, bringing the board with us. We then invented a drab and tedious tale of personality problems and stalking to cover the brief absence of Barbelith from this world.

Eat me, Rael.
 
  
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