Bscorg
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[edit] DISCLAIMER
The below information may be biased in some forms, as it has not been throughly read/checked/approved by all bscorg members. Some information may be false or accusatory.
- This article has been written mainly by Protogod, and contains heavy bias against myself (Yossarian7). As such, I have taken and will continue to take the liberty of correcting the various exaggerations presented herein.* --August 22nd.
- Note to all future editors
Please leave your personal bias behind when you write or edit these articles. This includes YOSSARIAN and myself. Thank you.* --August 30, 2006. <3 Recalled to life - PrototheGod
- Second Note to Future Editors: Don't. Except you, IHZ. Thank you. --August 31, 2006 <3 DFIK
- GriffonHeart is currently in the process of checking this information for innacuracies and bias. Thank you.*
[edit] From Chaos
From chaos came BSCorg. On the website Starcraft.org there were several "flame-wars" due in large part to one notable, self-proclaimed "crusader" called ScifiFreak. These wars were the result of the community feeling brought to starcraft.org. This feeling also brought about an heir of fellowship, that you might find in a forum. However, this was frowned upon by the Starcraft.org staff, as they were not equipped to handle the problems of a forum and archive site in one. Warboards.org however, was availiable.
Warboards, however, was seen as a seperate community by the starcraft.org regulars, who simply wanted to remain in their close knit communities. Thus BSCorg Spawned. An alternative to Warboards, it hit a brief peak of popularity during its early months, after its creation on march 20, 2005.
Who could mastermind this endeavour? None other than Starcraft.org regular, and prominant author, DFIK. The first tier of members, were DFIK as administrator, Protogod, Deltasquad, Griffonheart (who soon became a Moderator on Starcraft.org, but was then 'fired' as Mod on SC.org, which caused a flame war (See below)), and IHateZerg.
[edit] The early days
BSCorg's name was spawned from it's url, courtesy of runboards.com. After "scorg" was selected as the desired forum name, the "B" was added to identify some as-of-yet undisclosed coding to runboards.com, and a "1" to the end of it, to show which runboards server it was on, making it "Bscorg1"
The site took off. Within the first month new members like unholyassassin (the future creator of shakuras) ScifiFreak, and Dragonpaladin arrived. Soon enough, DFIK found the need to add a moderator to BSCorg. Griffonheart was the prime candidate.
Deltasquad and Protogod had spent an entire night spamming, leaving the impression of not-taking things seriously. And IHateZerg was hardly a candidate with (ironically) an almost too serious idea of bscorg (he soon completely switched sides on this disagreement, becoming arguably bscorg's #1 spammer)
Yes, Griffonheart was an original, and took things moderately serious. Perfect. But soon enough more members, like SomeGuyOnTuesday, Geckat (future Starcraft.org moderator) and the beloved McNewgin came.
And thus, Deltasquad, after having proved himself capable of not-spamming, became an administrator.
[edit] Not so big after all
Several second-wave members like unholy-assassin and DragonPaladin soon left for various reasons. Among those reason was the thought that BSCorg was "too spammy."
But still, through the idea that fun through spam was not, in and of itself, bad, BSCorg lived on. Eventually Protogod became one of BSCorg's most prominent leaders, among DFIK himself. Geckat and McNewgin took on their roles as occasional visitors, experiencing long periods of inactivity followed by sudden appearances lasting from one day to two months. SomeGuyOnTuesday became something betwen a punching bag and a spam machine.
[edit] Competition
Yossarian7, a newcomer to BSCorg, found a way to use runboards servers to create his own, flashier site- "The Getaway"
The Getaway encompassed more HTML coding and custom filters to enhance it's appearance.
However, flashiness does not equal substance. With a member-base feeding off of BSCorg's, The Getaway was fierce competition. To maintain control of his newfound influence, Yossarian7 ruled The Getaway with an iron fist, leaving himself open to personal attacks from BSCorg members Griffonheart and Protogod.
Soon The Getaway's scare came to an end, and Protogod gained administrative access to use it as a training ground for his own dabbling in html and color schemes for BSCORG.
The Getaway was stripped of all useful HTML and BSCorg absorbed these scraps, improving the already solid Member Base.
[edit] The Game!
Bscorg Briefly desgined an RPG computer game. Spearheaded by McNewgin, the game became an impossibility after a couple short months and a major lack of sprites later. Sterile? Deltasquad left, and was (of course) deadmined. DFIK had a sudden, long-unexplained absence (Which would alter turn out to be that his computer had been infected with a virus), and Griffonheart had a short, though not all encompassing absence.
This left Protogod as the temporary leader of bscorg for 3-4 months. During which time, the lack of moderation went through cycles of control and chaos. Ultimately, after a purge* BSCorg without a doubt survived unscaved.
[edit] The Move
At the urging of Yossarian, and through some skepticism, BSCorg moved to "united-Galaxy.net" in order to have their own domain. However, several months later, BSCorg still lacked its own domain, and its former individual HTML was now gone. Questions as to the real reason for the move were made, as Yossarian7, the very same person who formerly headed the getaway and now encouraged the move, had pulled some strings with the webmaster to make himself an Administrator, despite DFIK and Protogod's wishes.
In an epic display of "sit down and shut up
" Protogod banned yossarian from bscorg, who later took down the site's new domain (temporarily) as revenge.
Both actions were revoked, as was Protogod's administrator status (which was later replaced.)
While at the new URL, two new members joined BSCorg's now-stagnated ranks. Jones first, who immediately found her place (hated by Someguyontuesday and favored by Protogod) had been recruited as a real-life friend of yossarian's. Second was Inferno, Someguyontuesday's real-life friend.
With the Aussie preparing another move, the BSCorgers finally tired of the unending changes and returned to their original homeland.
[edit] Casualties
Briefly after moving to The Aussie's Domain, the much loved Griffonheart broke all major contacts, after losing his home's internet services. Still, he kept a miniscule level of contact through librairy computers under a new account (after losing his original password during his absence)
[edit] More on the Aussie
Personally known by Yossarian, "The Aussie" was the temporary webmaster of BSCorg. Affectionately called "The dictator ruling BSCorg with an iron fistfull of koalas" by Protogod, the Aussie paid occasional visits to BSCorg, leaving it with few options to improve itself.
He has since lost contact
[edit] The return, and yet again...
After a shortlived return to BSCorg, trajedy struck when questions were raised as to yossarian's "loyalty" (assuming that can exist for a website.)
Even after the initial conflict, Protogod and Yossarian continually butted-heads over yossarian's alleged "hunger for power" and proven "gay-sex spam", and Protogod's "abuse of power"
These chaotic arguments consumed the main chat section of bscorg until yossarian was banned, and Protogod resigned as a moderator, unable to deal with the negatve feedback he continually recieved.
This sudden lack of Administration left DFIK alone, unable to handle true decisions. He too resigned, handing it over to the only moderately apt original BSCorger: SomeGuyOnTuesday.
This lead to the creation of a second BSCorg site (third if you continue to count United-Galaxy)
[edit] Drama rama, its the Drama llama!
Someguyontuesday, as the new figurehead of BSCorg took initiative by readmining Deltasquad after a quick chat. This, sadly lead to no results, as ultimately Delta did not return.
Extrenuating circumstances led to "SG" being temporarily gounded.
Yet again, Yossarian userped this opporunity, to fit his own twisted vision. By urging Someguy through panic and insecurity of his own abilities, and availiability of time, yossarian briefly took power once again.
Protogod, of course, fought against this decision, and eventually succeeded. After a short week of Yossarian rule, his power was revoked by popular demand, but not without hard feelings.
[edit] Hardships
All throughout it's history, BSCorg has endured greuling spam and flame wars.
Many of these flame wars were, ironically, with it's parent site - Starcraft.org. The demeaning of starcraft.org's community by it's staff, and imprompt due demands of a move to warboards lead to several heated debates and conspiracies.
During the first of which, DragonPaladin was banned for conspiring to give AJ, the figurehead of Starcraft.org, information about BSCorg's doings and newest conococtions. He remained gone, even after his unbanning: unwanted and disgraced.
Several conspiracies to stirr up distrust between the general populace of starcraft.org's populace and it's staff have yet to be proven by starcraft.org staff, yet those alleged attacks were "preemptively stopped."
If the Revolutionary War was on the internet, it would have been the birth of BSCorg. After it's initial creation, SC.org staff was infuriated. Warboards was supposed to be used for this sort of thing, not some newcomer. However, as BSCorgers saw it, they had gone to Warboards to request improvements in the past, and were met only with flames and mistrust by the established Warboarding Community, which had separated itself from that of starcraft.org prior to all incidents.
This lead to mistrust and panic on both sides.
Another high profile "military action" if you will, was when Griffonheart, the moderator of BSCorg was offered a position as Moderator of Starcraft.org. This lasted only minutes, though, as comments that were allegedly "offensive to starcraft.org" staff were supposedly discovered on bscorg.
The outrage from BSCorgers was barely stopped when Griffonheart stepped in and faked an apology simply to end the arguing.
In unrelated incidents, griffonheart repeatedly broke-down, flaming and spamming incoherantly, ultimately leading to DFIK revoking his powers.
Several other "enemies of the state" have disgraced BSCorg with their presence. Kirbyman1, formerly the unbannable spam-god, became a member. After baning multiple accounts and IP's, he was finally overwhelmed with every sort of ban availiable to the administration's disgretion.
Fred13, another long since forgotten enemy seemed to be an ordinary member. Unfortunately, he suddenly and mysteriously became less-than-pleasant, insulting Griffonheart personally among other acts of douchebaggery.
[edit] BSCORG Today
Today, BSCorg remains in a limbo between SG's site and it's original url, with the scales clearly favoring SG's new site.
With Yossarian unmodded, Someguy ungrounded, and an appearance from Griffonheart, the future is uncertain for BSCorg, but there is no end in sight for its current members.
Monday, August 24, 2006.
[edit] Members & Rankings
DFIK - Head admin of the original bscorg. Recently resigned.
Protogod - Admin of the original bscorg. Recently resigned.
Griffonheart - Original Moderator, Second Administrator, Archiver, and Long Time Member of the original bscorg. Currently without moderator powers of any form, and only making sporadic appearences on BSCorg and BSCorg2.
someguyontuesday - Head Admin of the new bscorg (aka BSCorg2). Was a Long Time Member at the old forum.
ihatezerg - Long Time Member of Both Forums
5Daimyo - Member of Both Forums
InfernoDeath - Member of Both Forums
jones - Member of Both Forums
DealtaForce - Admin at both forums, but has been absent
ExsRaptor - Member at original forums
Geckat - Member at both forums
Yossarian7 - Admin at new forums, recently de-adminned. Member at both forums
Kirby -soon to be unBanned Member
fred - Disliked Member at original forum
ScifiFreak - Moderator at old forums, but has been absent.
