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in 2005, the forums were created to serve as a second home in case of FA going down for X amount of time. The forums itself has seen a lot of dramatic, fun, and just downright stupid periods before the "days of 1000 shitposts" and the eventual cataclysm.

What are your most memorable moments on FAF? Was it the Thanksgiving banner incident? The Thanksgiving drama pt 2: Cubporn boogaloo? #Zoogate? Making friends? Night of a thousand shitposts? The game-based threads? The Black hole?

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I was a member from 2012-2015, so for me the biggest drama was the Sonic porn ban. Oh, he glorious butthurt. 

I really just miss the days when random fools would ask the most absurd questions (like that dude that wanted to start a lion heirarchy with random roommates) and get burned for it.

When Arshes ran the show it seemed like we had a strong artistic community too. 

I guess most ppl would list the cub porn ban as the greatest moment. 

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When Arshes ran the show it seemed like we had a strong artistic community too. 

 

It prevented a lot of people abusing the artists for free art, which was a major problem within the art community on FA/F. With the new ban system, it also curbed people starting multiple threads and bumping multiple times in the art section. 

 

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When the holegans lolpenised the board.  Or anytime ebaumworld trolled.  They were posting some ironman numbers.

Then there was that time when I hung a set of "Truck Nuts" on NetCat's new pickup......he's faster than he looks with a 5-iron and a sand wedge.  And the incident in the Staff kitchen with the leftover pizza, a half bottle of Chardonnay, 6 double-A batteries and a quart of Sriracha sauce in a bottle marked "lube."  Warmock was never the same after that and I don't think TRPdwarf ever forgave him.

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I remember Brazen on the forums, the original FAF troll. While he may be gone (probably got bored) he left a piece of himself in all of us. He will be missed. Come back, Brazen!

I wasn't around to see the black hole, though I do remember seeing it as a guest.

 

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The days when folks like Zenia could respond to art request threads with joke art. The butthurt was almost as good as the derps themselves.

This reminded me of that user with a female frog alien-like character who used to jump in and beg for free art of any kind all the time. I remember Zenia made him a joke drawing of this character being stabbed or something like that.
Now that I recall, I think I ended up drawing this guy a freebie, too.

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Oh! Remember when FAF would organize semi-"Raids" on furfag sims on SL? So much fun. I'd suggest something for IMVU, but I think everything there is static. Hell, for thr longest time, I thought IMVU was some yahoo answers-like IM service.

 

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Oh! Remember when FAF would organize semi-"Raids" on furfag sims on SL? So much fun. I'd suggest something for IMVU, but I think everything there is static. Hell, for thr longest time, I thought IMVU was some yahoo answers-like IM service.

 

it may as well be, to be honest, it's stupid enough to be like that, except with people who're dumb enough to spend real money on a poorly modelled and textured table for their virtual room

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Im quite new to the forums, just joined half a year ago but the best event probably was the night where we turned the "What would you do to the user above" thread into a general chat thread for me, foxy, pumu and heyitsatrain xD that was so epic

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Hmm, I dunno really. I remember at least three occasions where a new user turned up, kinda embedded themselves as a sort of regular poster after about a few months, and then suddenly he'd reveal himself to be Eversleep and everyone started losing their shit before a mod abruptly locked the thread. (Why was eversleep banned in the first place anyway? I don't remember ever finding out myself.) 

There was another time I remember when somebody posted about being told not to wear a tail at school and complaining about how unfair it was in a thread, and then the thread blew up to about 100 pages in about a day because people were getting really wound up arguing over it with the OP. Was it people overreacting or just the OP intentionally riling everyone up? I dunno, could've been both I guess. 

 

Oh! And then there was Arshes-Nei and a lot of other mods being sacked for no apparent reason right before I stopped posting. That was huge, and probably why I stopped posting on FAF and moved over to the Weasyl forum now I think about it.

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Hmm, I dunno really. I remember at least three occasions where a new user turned up, kinda embedded themselves as a sort of regular poster after about a few months, and then suddenly he'd reveal himself to be Eversleep and everyone started losing their shit before a mod abruptly locked the thread. (Why was eversleep banned in the first place anyway? I don't remember ever finding out myself.) 

IIRC he just did shitposting all the time, and kept making new and irrelevant threads constantly

could be wrong though, that was a while back

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When the confession thread went batshit insane and lots of people were ragging on Sylox for his incredible lack of knowledge on sex. We actually had to give him a goddamn sex ed class in the thread

 And how could one forget when @Mikazuki Marazhu wrote an erotic short story in that thread as well :P

Let's see, there were also those where when users would come in with very weird fetishes, like that guy who wanted to use someone's fursona for some vore/scat comic or something. Yuck...

When Sylox peeing in a bottle became its own self contained meme on the site

That's all I can think of at the top of my head. I'll probably remember more eventually

 

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When the confession thread went batshit insane and lots of people were ragging on Sylox for his incredible lack of knowledge on sex. We actually had to give him a goddamn sex ed class in the thread

 And how could one forget when @Mikazuki Marazhu wrote an erotic short story in that thread as well :P

Let's see, there were also those where when users would come in with very weird fetishes, like that guy who wanted to use someone's fursona for some vore/scat comic or something. Yuck...

When Sylox peeing in a bottle became its own self contained meme on the site

That's all I can think of at the top of my head. I'll probably remember more eventually

 

That's still a meme

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hehe, I remember when he did Peels Reve, that was funny.

 

Anyone remember Download a flareon? Fun stuff.

 

 

as for me when I was around the biggest drama was the DDOS and shipping of Ninten/Sparta in the comic thread

When i was 11 i'd daydream of Articuno sitting on my face. Why do people think it's weird that i want to have sex with pokemon?

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I joined the forums around August of 2013 and I immediately loved it from its sarcasm to It's resident trolls it was the place I first became part of the furry community it was where I made the great friends I have today its also where I first meet Red and save for a downloaded pokemon to a person who shall not be named I couldn't say that I disliked anyone on them the forums may be gone but those were simply a page in the book that is our community lets use tgis forum to write hell of a lot more   

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Arshes used to spank me a lot until I grew up. I was 17 close to 18 when I joined and I was a dumb teen. She wasn't cynical or a douche, but most certainly let me know when I was being dumb. So it's more so not really memories, but gaining an appreciation for someone trying to help me better myself.

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The  coolest thing I remember is still that whole Christmas Secret Santa event we all did where we bought each other gifts. That was fun, and I got the coolest piece of artwork anyone has ever given me. 

The time we all did a Mafia thread back in Forum Games and people kept drawing art of what happened, usually every time someone died was fun too, even if the first game was a disaster in how bad everyone was.

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I've been on faf since 2009 and I don't remember a lot of those things. xD  I know I've heard of them but man I really don't remember most of those. 

I do remember being one of those guys who lurk on the art request threads waiting for someone to offer free art until I decided to fuck it and draw myself. 

 

Best memory I had on faf was meeting Mara tho. 

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Hmm, I dunno really. I remember at least three occasions where a new user turned up, kinda embedded themselves as a sort of regular poster after about a few months, and then suddenly he'd reveal himself to be Eversleep and everyone started losing their shit before a mod abruptly locked the thread. (Why was eversleep banned in the first place anyway? I don't remember ever finding out myself.) 

There was another time I remember when somebody posted about being told not to wear a tail at school and complaining about how unfair it was in a thread, and then the thread blew up to about 100 pages in about a day because people were getting really wound up arguing over it with the OP. Was it people overreacting or just the OP intentionally riling everyone up? I dunno, could've been both I guess. 

 

Oh! And then there was Arshes-Nei and a lot of other mods being sacked for no apparent reason right before I stopped posting. That was huge, and probably why I stopped posting on FAF and moved over to the Weasyl forum now I think about it.

Oh yes, I remember a period of time where whenever a new member joined, I guessed to myself as to whether they were Eversleep or not. Sometimes, I was right.

How long d'you guys reckon it will be until he's here?

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