Continued here
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 debatable 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.
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