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The Bill Maher incident, if I recall correctly, was that given2trade posted a video of Bill Maher in the Furious General Discussion and put "(Please don't move this to News & Debate)" in the thread title (Furious! had a very similar infrastructure to RM, with the addition of the NSFW forum). Beef ignored that request and moved the video to N&D. This sparked a huge board war that got surprisingly angry. I remember Buffalohed called washing machine "spineless".
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theplatypus wrote:
The Bill Maher incident, if I recall correctly, was that given2trade posted a video of Bill Maher in the Furious General Discussion and put "(Please don't move this to News & Debate)" in the thread title (Furious! had a very similar infrastructure to RM, with the addition of the NSFW forum). Beef ignored that request and moved the video to N&D. This sparked a huge board war that got surprisingly angry. I remember Buffalohed called washing machine "spineless".
Yeah that was awesome.
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thodoks wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
Spike wrote:
Self Polluted wrote:
Spike wrote:
i was not part of furious! i returned to RM around that time though, recognizing that the furious! members were lost sheep in need of a shepherd to lead them back home.
I swear I recall you being there? An imposter, perhaps?
haha, i hope so.
Spike was never a member, but in a way, he was responsible for it: Mickey (under the screenname Winter's Love) had been banned from RM, and washing machine had made a thread to keep GD updated on the latest Mickey news. On a whim, Spike made a post in said thread that changed everything: a simple "RIP". Reid and I played along, and so did tryinmorning. Eventually, several GD denizens were under the impression that Mickey had actually died from a brain aneurysm. When this was found to be false, several RMers were banned, and it sparked quite an outrage. Furious! was the short-lived sojourn of those banned posters, as well as other accepted members of the GD community joining us in solidarity. We occupied and re-branded an abandoned message board that washing machine had started for his friends called "The Wolfpack". We named it "Furious!", in honor of one of RM's greatest moments. It was a fun time, though plagued with in-fighting and turmoil, but it died out due to the incredibly slow loading time that we started experiencing after our first month there (it was a free message board). There was an even shorter-lived follow-up initiative, Furious! II, started by px when RM was experiencing issues... but it was pretty lame.
that's impressive RM recall right there
I'm surprised by how much I remember.
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The Bill Maher incident, if I recall correctly, was that given2trade posted a video of Bill Maher in the Furious General Discussion and put "(Please don't move this to News & Debate)" in the thread title (Furious! had a very similar infrastructure to RM, with the addition of the NSFW forum). Beef ignored that request and moved the video to N&D. This sparked a huge board war that got surprisingly angry. I remember Buffalohed called washing machine "spineless".
oh, so this is the ballyhooed "thread moving" incident
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thodoks wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
The Bill Maher incident, if I recall correctly, was that given2trade posted a video of Bill Maher in the Furious General Discussion and put "(Please don't move this to News & Debate)" in the thread title (Furious! had a very similar infrastructure to RM, with the addition of the NSFW forum). Beef ignored that request and moved the video to N&D. This sparked a huge board war that got surprisingly angry. I remember Buffalohed called washing machine "spineless".
oh, so this is the ballyhooed "thread moving" incident
Seriously, what did Matt expect when he said "don't move this to N&D"?
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