[RECOVERED] Jiggmin.com Historical References Guide

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Stickied June 21, 2011! Thanks everyone for your support!

It should be noted that most of the following material was written over two years ago. The opinions expressed here are solely those of the individuals providing them and may not continue to reflect those providers' opinions at the present time.

Jiggmin.com is a great community, and it has an epic history as well. Sometimes you newer members may see some of the Ultimate Users joking or ranting about people or events, or just mentioning them. You, as a newer villager, very likely will not know wth we're talking about... But you will now! Alright, let us start from the beginning. (Get ready for an extremely long post)

Jiggmin2 (the old Jiggmin.com, the old forum, the Veteran forum) - Only serious veterans of JV would know about this one. This used to be the location of the Jiggmin.com forum. But this was a VERY simple bulletin board. Jiggmin didn't even have vBulletin yet. Right now, if you go to www.jiggmin2.com all you get is a simple message and nothing else.

Blindi - The first real attacker of Jiggmin's Village. Blindi's profile can be found at http://jiggmin.com/forum/member.php?u=622. Joining October 25th, 2008, Blindi seemed cool at first. Though after a couple postings, Blindi introduced our forum to the F-bomb. No one had ever swore in JV, as far as I know, before Blindi did. He is the entire reason Jiggmin added word censors. Swearing, flaming, spamming like heck and the mods didn't do a thing about it. Eventually, he was banned forever. Then his dynamic IP kicked in. He made several spamming accounts, and eventually he created HahahahahaH. After a VERY long period of him getting away with everything, the moderators finally banned HaH. HaH's ban was not permanent and the account was later unbanned, but has since been banned permanently. He had made many accounts obviously ban evasively - BlindiTroll, Troll, StopIt, Seriously, Unbannable, all just to annoy us. Well, it worked. None of Blindi's posts are on record nor can they be restored because of a certain happening mentioned later.

bud.smoker - bud's profile is at http://jiggmin.com/forum/member.php?u=464. bud is notorious for EPIC spam. bud was a great addition to the Village for quite some time, but on January 19 2009 bud.smoker, for a reason unknown to me, crossed to the dark side. He spammed something we call "Pain" all over JV, which entails all sorts of disgusting things I recommend you don't look up. And, of course, there were no Moderators on. Eventually, ellie came to save us. But bud.smoker was her friend. She didn't want to ban him. But she did. Forever. For wiping teh pr0nzzz on our forum. All bud's posts were deleted, but Jiggmin's Village was left with a lifetime scar.

Forseti - Forseti - iAeg in Platform Racing 2 - was chosen as a Permanent Moderator. He was a good Moderator, too. Until the Administrators found out iAeg shared his password with somebody else. The SMods - Melanie, b@by*G, and e46m3 - demodded and banned immediately without consent from Jiggmin. Super Moderators can't demod a forum moderator. So Forseti was still a forum mod. This is the worst mistake the smods could have ever made. Guess what he did? He completely trashed Jiggmin.com as we knew it. First, he started out banning random people for no reason. Artasmas was a victim of this. These people were unbanned, but not after Forseti finished his job. He PRUNED (erased) EVERY SINGLE TOPIC FROM EVERY SINGLE FORUM!!!!!! Many very good posts were lost. But why did he do it? This conversation between Fors and B.B Kitty tells all. click here for pic because it is large

Jonathan (Jonny, Jon) - Jonathan used to be a Moderator. He also used to have a next to his name but he changed that. He got mad at XPA! and all the mods because of what they do at Savs (explained later). The fuller story on Jon can be found in my blog here.

UnknownAX (UAX) - UnknownAX is, or was, the highest ranked person in Platform Racing 2. He is rank 60. He got there by telling Jiggmin he found a vulnurability and then doing it to show Jiggmin it was possible. Jiggmin patched it and let UAX keep the uber high rank as a reward.

SavsAwesomeClub (Savs, Troll Chat) - The infamous xat chat created by a former member of JV, SavGurl101. It used to be a great chat, had good conversations and was crowded on weekends but it has hence turned to the dark side... SavGurl101, XPA!, bud.smoker, Forseti, and many others used to hang out there, but the chat is gone now.

The Renovation - This is the forum layout that came before the one that you look upon currently. Before, the skin was the simple default vBulletin skin, there was no Thanks, no customization of profiles, and no blogs. Many other new things were added with this. The Jiggmin forum was down for a period while Jiggmin uploaded the new forum. When it was back online, everyone was very happy, except for the fact that Jiggmin somehow deleted all our posts pruned by Forseti. Some people got a big chunk taken out of their post count. NF*NARUTO lost about 7,000. I personally lost about 1,400.

The UnknownAX Disaster (The AX Disaster, MelUAX, The Clam Mistake) - Our latest and worst disaster, UnknownAX devised this madness. First, he released, on May 6, 2009, something called The Clam. It was a Platform Racing 2 hacked client. About 60 people including some moderators went on it. It was closed after 12 hours. A while afterwards, UAX made a thread telling everybody to report to the Isabel PR2 server at 4:00 PST. Simply having said "You won't regret it" a lot of people came. UAX said "brb" and left Isabel. Next thing anyone knew, Melanie was in Derron on a Perma-Mod Making spree! Perhaps hundreds of members were made permanent Moderators. It could be estimated that about three were taking their jobs seriously. After that, everybody was getting banned for 5 years for having a "retarded nickname". Come to find out later, UAX had used a keylogger (which, by the way, are illegal) to capture Melanie's password. It must've been the same on JV, because of course soon UAX had control of the Super Moderator Melanie's forum account. He was swearing in all the threads, put porn as Melanie's avatar and put it all over her profile. And, yep, you guessed it, AX saw an opportunity to top Forseti and took it. All of the threads were pruned besides stickies. However, for some strange reason, just like Foseti, none of us lost post count... UAX also gave several members over 4 million Thanks, which had to be reduced to zero. Some members were sad about that. But why did he do it? UnknownAX says: "I did it to teach you guys a lesson. Nothing is unhackable, not even PR2. And mods and admins should never go on that kind of thing. If mods are irresponsible, things like this can and will happen." That's not a direct quote but that's sorta what he said. Jiggmin was able to demod all the perma moderators (and the admins had to remod the ones that were supposed to be mods) and shut down all PR2's servers for a time. The Melanie accounts were banned until she could get a new password. She used another account, "melanie_01_girl" to apologize and say she was leaving. She came back briefly as an inactive admin but has since retired and given up smod status.

walker9 (Lord Walker, Failure of JV, Walking Facepalm) - walker9 was perhaps the most odd person ever to register on Jiggmin's Village. He had very poor grammar and never seemed to understand anything. None of his posts were ever very relevant, and he really only made one good thread, which was about basketball. The most memorable of all, Thread 21642, which can be found here. It was asking for Fred The Giant Cactus (who, at the time, was a robot programmed by Jiggmin to add Games onto the website and create threads in a hidden section where the members could add comments for the games) to be banned. Eventually, walker9 was banned forever for being a general pest, but he later came back on a different name, sr27, and did basically the same thing. At first denying he was walker9 and saying walker9 was his cousin, he finally admitted it and was banned for ban evasion.

JVclub (JVC) - The Official Unofficial chatroom for JV and PR2. Can be found at http://xat.com/JVclub. Created by Artasmas. It is the reincarnation of the older xat, xat.com/JiggminVillage, which is now dead. Lots of things happen there, and has been the result of more than one meme. There's never a dull moment in JVclub, where the sun never shines and the minions come out to play. Includes a playlist with music, PR2, and good rules to keep the chat safe and under control. The staff carry out the rules very well. JVC has since been closed by Artasmas, and a new chat is now available. It is much more relaxed as far as rules and you can pretty much say whatever you want. It can be found at http://xat.com/JVklub.

Jestes - One of the original mods, Jestes was the mod that everybody liked, but then everybody stopped liking him and got him demodded. This happened when he said "Cool story, bro" in reply to a thread about a little girl dying. This caused a HUGE ruckus, a petition was made to demod him which included several screenshots of him acting un-moderator-ly. Eventually Jiggmin demodded him, and announced that he had been warned a few times before and was now demodded. He is now treated as a normal member.
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Itaku - Another one of the original JV mods, he was exploited by Artasmas for doing very un-moderator-ly things such as teaching people how to hack OmgPop, a popular multiplayer gaming website, as well as trying to steal the beforementioned JVclub chat and ruin it, and other things. He was demodded, after which he got mad and tried to bring others, such as XPA! (another former moderator), down with him, the threads he made were only locked, and Itaku himself, banned.

JPMK - JPMK stands for James Patrick Michael Keenan. He was made a moderator around the time LCPD was modded. He was one of the most good active mods, and him living in England helped with the nighttime bad boys. He decided that he was going to quit so he made several spam-ish threads and then simply asked to be demodded. After which he officialized his retirement. He is back now, however.

LCPD - Perhaps one of the best mods JV has ever had. He unexpectedly left because he was going into college and just didn't have time anymore. He came back temporarily to help with the shortage of mods but is now demodded by request.

brianx - This just in, there were bad people before Blindi! brianx was the hype in July, he pretending to be moderators to get their passwords. At first he was a normal member, not so many posts, kind of a suck-up. A conversation between him and Smithsonian said he'd do anything to become a mod, though. So he made an alt named skill, and in bad grammar, impersonated skillz and explained how he "lost his password" and would like it back. He also tried to impersonate Melanie and ellie using the same message, then two weeks later Jonathan banned him for trying to get the mods' passwords.

cloud strife - Member number 12, first account of Eclipse Midir. This account was briefly given to his brother, but later revoked and abused after Eclipse was banned on his main. It was one of many alternate accounts that he possessed at the time. Despite common misconception, the account was not banned because his brother attempted to be a news man, was rejected, made a thread full of swears, and advocated the use of Gaia. (Note that Eclipse's brothers Pr2 account was called Gaia47, however.) See Dantephoneix for more information on that topic.

Dantephoenix - His actions were once confused for cloud strife's. Became angry, supposedly for failing as a news man, and left JV. An avid Gaia.com user.

Thank you to Chimpy and Eclipse Midir for informing me about brianx and cloud strife.

c3Rchno (desert boy) - This minor disaster happened after the UAX incident. C3, once known as desert boy, was in JVclub. Mr. El X was repeatedly calling him desert boy, which he did not like. He told him to stop but El kept on and on and eventually c3 got really mad and decided to do a bud.smoker. He spammed the sick porn all over the forum. It was deleted pretty fast however and c3 was banned.

The Macroing of '09 - The blame is put on Zythar, but it could have been anybody. The day before Halloween '09, somebody was macroing people's profile visits to a ridiculous amount. Macroing is a very large run-time demanding task. Jiggmin's Village was extremely slow the entire day and was giving out Database Errors now and then. Finally Jiggmin came and the forum was shut down for a few minutes. The forum was then off and on with slowness and normality. Everything was fixed by the end of the day but it sure pissed a lot of people off.

Ghost Blogs - They're there, or are they? Danob545 claims to have originally discovered this vBulletin feature, but it began being a problem after a user named NatFan kept a ghost blog on the list for a few days. But what is a ghost blog? Ghost blogs are blogs that are seen on the newest blogs list on the Top 5 Stats but not on the blog homepage. They clutter the Latest Blogs on the Top 5 Stats and actual blogs cannot be seen from that list. This is a very simple process that nobody understood, however, until I found the secret and made a few ghost blogs myself. Artasmas found it next. People were mad at us initially, and 1python64 took action against us. Artasmas was given an infraction and I was banned for like a month but Artasmas negotiated with Python to lift my ban. Recently Artasmas posted a thread describing in detail with pictures how to make them, simply because he was bored. This caused a huge uproar, numerous members were creating them and several threads and even some groups were created. This went on for some time until the first user, askRYAN, was banned for excessive ghostblogging. We think Jiggmin is currently trying to manually delete the ghost blogs, as they cannot be deleted except by the poster or until they are un-ghosted. The red outline on this picture indicates the ghost blogs. Jiggmin even created one as a test, also he went on his alternate account Jacob and created one. There are only the ghost blogs created by AskRYAN, one by Tyroan, and the two by Jiggmin. There used to be a whole lot but users took them down when it was announced they were a bannable offense. They are called ghost blogs because they cannot be viewed. When clicked, this error is shown. The fad has died out and Jiggmin has found a way to delete the ghost blogs.

Zshadow - Zshadow is an ex-mod/super-mod. He was moderated because Jiggmin was taking suggestions for mods and 1python64 suggested him, because he was a Kongregate mod and he knew him well. Jiggmin came, temped him on PR2, and after one temp he became a mod. He soon became a super moderator, presumably because the existing three were becoming less active and there was a need for another. Later, he became a Kongregate administrator. This, along with some real life issues, caused him to retire as a super moderator here on JV. Now he is a mod on PR2 again but is inactive and doesn't have "Game Moderator" status on the forums.

Thanks to Forseti for informing me about Zshadow.

JV 4.0 (The Second Renovation, JVvB4) - The fourth time the style of the forum has been entirely revamped coincides with Jiggmin's switch to vBulletin Version 4. Following its release, many members wondered if Jiggmin would ever begin using it. Eventually, he opened a test forum which used vB4, which he failed to make any moderators on and didn't moderate himself. When he announced it to the members, many people went to check it out. After the initial craze died down and less people were getting on it, it started getting spammed a lot. There were also no swear filters so you can guess how that turned out. After a couple weeks of it being up, Jiggmin closed the test forum. A while after that, Jiggmin finally installed vB4 on Jiggmin.com, resulting in an entirely new look for the forums. Some time afterwards, Jiggmin enabled users the power to change their own usernames once every 30 days. This resulted in a lot of changed usernames and confused members over who's who, so ,CARLOS created the Post your new username ITT thread, in which he kept a log of people's old and new usernames. The trend of username changes has since died down, but there are still many users who change theirs regularly. Jiggmin has since removed the feature but users can still send him a Private Message to request a username change and he will usually comply.

Emerald - Emerald, formerly known as B.B Kitty, Odori-Chan and many other names, was popular on the forums for having been permanently banned. The initial ban was for insulting another member, but after ban evasion it was extended to a permaban. She, thinking she had nothing to lose, made a considerable amount of alt accounts and continued to ban evade repeatedly for some time. Eventually she stopped, and many people wanted her to be unbanned but due to the massive amount of evasion she did the staff was quite against the notion. Much much much later, in 2011, she was finally given a second chance. If she could show that she meant no harm and only wanted to be a contributing member of the community, she could stay. So she got to post unbanned for some time, but then soon enough stirred up trouble again. Her intentions in this were much debated, but she was once again permanently banned for the reason of posting someone's full name in a thread without that user's permission. This action was vigorously protested by the members but the staff stated that the action was fair and that she was on a probationary period -- a very short leash -- and that any one broken rule would have her permabanned again, which it did - even though that rule is stated as only punishable by a Warning in the rules. The topic of her ban continued to be regularly brought up and dismissed, brought up and dismissed, again and again. She eventually became not banned due to an event detailed later.
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The chris0 Crisis (Chaos Emerald, The Great Rebellion) - First it is necessary to note a certain rule of the forums that is in place, which dictates that users of the forums are not allowed to publicly discuss moderator actions. This is an unpopular rule amongst members but one that has remained in place. Note: Due to a change in the rules, it is debateable whether that rule is still in place or not. The chris0 Crisis began on the 18th of June, 2011, when staff locked and unstickied a thread in which users made suggestions of how to change the moderation of the site. At that time, a heated debate between Rammjet, who was backed up by a few other members, and the mods was happening over the subject of Emerald's ban. The thread was closed under the reasoning that there was no need to take any more suggestions publicly and if any user had a problem or felt like their or someone else's suggestion had gone unnoticed, they could PM a staff member. Shortly after the thread was closed, a thread popped up "suggesting" that they reopen it. When the staff declined to do so, things got dirty. chris0 writes a rant in a blog about it, which was deleted and chris0 was infracted. Dozens of threads and blogs popped up one after another about the situation, each of which was quickly deleted. Some members, feeling oppressed and silenced, conspired to overthrow the administration and have the first real revolution of JV. Chain PM's about just such a thing were being spread around, and a full-scale rebellion began, causing much bitterness between the members and the mods. Many people complained about the "no discussing mod actions" rule, which was the basis under which the staff was deleting all the threads and blogs. After chris0 was banned for a week, many members decided to follow suit as an action against the mods and requested week bans themselves. After over 10 users were week banned by request because of this, the ability to request a ban for oneself was removed, as shown by this blog from ASilva93 (click here). Some members proceeded to believe that some staff members were corrupt. Later that day, the forums were flooded by the concise yet meaningful message: "Purr cot is an anagram of corrupt." As can be seen in this image (click here), the forums were definitely out of control when the mods were gone. This continued into the next day, during which Silverrida posted a very long and thoughtful thread about what was happening, why it was happening and how we could fix it. When it was almost immediately deleted, he reposted it, and it was deleted again, and after a few more repostings he was infracted and eventually banned for a day for spamming threads. A few users, seeing this, decided this was unfair and reposted the thread themselves until they were also banned or infracted to the point where they could no longer repost it. The drama eventually somewhat died down, but tensions between members and moderators were still high.

The First Annual Leniency Day - On the 20th of June, 2011, two days after the rebellion started, Jiggmin announced in this thread (click here) the "First Annual Lenciency Day," which he "did not plan to do every year, but it just sounded cool." Everyone who was currently banned was given the status of "Not Banned" in which they were unbanned but limited. They could post, but all their posts had to be approved by a moderator before appearing, outside of Village Games (in which the Not Banned users could post freely). If they could stay out of trouble for a month, then they would be given regular member status. It is unknown whether or not the rebellion caused this goodness, although the mod team denies it. It relieved much of the tension between moderators and members, and made a lot of people happy that old popular banned members such as Emerald and walker9 could return.

Red Jackdaw - Red Jackdaw was a PR2 moderator which led to his eventual modship on JV. He became known in the Jiggmin community by making such popular PR2 levels as "Questions" and others. He did a good job as a moderator on JV despite having to juggle it with modding PR2. Eventually, he was promoted to Super Moderator and many members praised him. He did not receive much hate at all and may in fact be one of the most loved JV staff members of all time. However, on the 20th of June 2011, he announced his retirement. He wrote quite a long thread in which he explained why he was retiring and made a few comments about the riot which had occurred the previous two days. The thread can be found here (click here). He is no longer a staff member.

Freerice - Freerice is a non-profit website where users answer questions in various categories. For every question answered, some rice is donated by the organisation to starving people in countries that are in need. In July 2011, JV member Killer XYZ made a Team Jiggmin for Freerice, and it grew incredibly popular; so much so that Jiggmin created a new board on the forums for it. In late September the group was deleted, and was since remade, with some mild success.

The Swearing Rule - For a long time, this forum has had rather strict rules on swearing. In March 2012, an announcement was posted to be sure that everyone knew which words were not allowed (which included some that did not have automatic censors, such as "asshole".) Some members didn't agree with a few words that weren't allowed, and thought that the mods were overstepping their boundaries ("idiot" was one of these words in question). JV member Clifford made a thread discussing the list, and eventually Jiggmin decided to try an experiment. For a week, all swear censors were gone, and members could post swears freely as long as it wasn't directed towards another member. The experiment was a huge success, and all words became uncensored except four. The thread can be found here.

Dutany - Dutany was a very active member and very popular. After 5 temps in PR2 he became a game moderator, and many people believe that he was one of, if not the best game mod we ever had. He was told he would not be able to be a forum moderator because he had too many warnings. He retired shortly afterwards because he felt that being a moderator limited him too much, and he couldn't be himself. He eventually regained game moderator status, but he was demodded again for revealing confidential information from the Mod Hut.

COPPA - On May 17th, a thread was made discussing COPPA, which is an internet law regarding the online safety of children 12 and under. This thread can be found here. After extensive discussion, Jiggmin decided to act upon COPPA and ban users under the age of 13. Reactions were mixed. Some members reacted negatively to the loss of many younger members, and others praised the rule for removing some members who were thought of as immature or annoying.

The Virus - July 11 was a day of minor panic on JV as a virus by unknown means had infected all pages of the site. Users would be asked to give Java permission to run on the site and, if they accepted, would be redirected to a Russian site which then redirected to a .tk domain which would give them a virus - an infected file named "hkpo.exe" would appear on the victim's PC. A significant amount of people were infected, and web browsers such as Chrome gave a warning that the site was infected by malware. An announcement was posted by aaaaaa123456789 warning people of the infection, and though there were a few methods found to avoid getting the virus, the simplest being to switch the forum theme to vB4 Default and others such as blocking the Russian site with Adblock or changing proxy settings, many members decided to simply stay off of JV for the day. By the next day, Jiggmin had it all fixed and aaaaaa123456789 posted a new announcement saying so and advising everyone to run a virus scan on their PC just in case if they had visited the site while it was infected. As of the time of writing, Jiggmin has not made any comment on the cause of the infection.

JoMan112 - Nought but a distant memory.

Feel free to make any comments or suggest any additions or revisions to the thread.

[pinko]

This post is posted for the same reason as the above.

Or just to bump it

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Um no why would I do that if it was on the top anyways and I'd just made it one minute ago.

Moron...

[pinko]

Don't call me a moron...

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Don't be a moron...

[pinko]

I wasn't being one now sshh cuz I will say something I will regret...

[Rocktrns]

Yep I have been on this forum since august I forgot how the old jiggmin forum looked though.

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It basically just looked like a normal page with little posts and avatars... It was just white and simple really.

[HahahahahaH]

I forgot I had this account.

And I still read all the posts about me.

[Misterhappy2]

I forgot I had this account.

And I still read all the posts about me.

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Glad to see this back. Eventually, when everyone leaves, this will be here to tell the newbies what happened. :3

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I forgot I had this account.

And I still read all the posts about me.

You're welcome lol

[GingerbreadMan]

coolness! never knew all this stuff happened.

[TheTangerine]

Woah, lots of stuff happened before I was here

[exothurnz987]

I was here since the aftermath of blindi incident. :3 And I learned everything about the Blindi incident after a week or so. XD

[warbleuc]

I enjoyed reading this thread. Thank you very much for some moments of pleasure.

warbleuc

[Dakotazan]

hmmm...howd joman get banned?

[benplayer]

I didn't start posting until after the renovation, so I never really got to know the old forum

[MagicOPromotion]

In my opinion you are mistaken. I can prove it. Write to me in PM.
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