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Adoptables
Umbrulf adoptions: This came before fritter critters, an adoption center by wonderingsoul for her species, umbrulfs. I forget the dates but I think it started in 2012, then sometime that year was kicked off the forums due to mods deleting the threads? There was a site move, and then the group was closed, and then we came back to warriors. Since this wasn't my personal group but a friend's group (I was a member and artist though, along with... Moss something? Feather, Star, and a few others I can't recall some usernames sadly.) I don't have much to say, it was fun though. Wonder later created Kerpouffle adoptions too, these really pretty pixel bouncy creatures, which I think may have come to the new wcf (it was on chickensmoothie for a bit though because the wcf mods thought she was stealing her own art or something equally silly... she wasn't obviously).
Early adoption centers: Way back in... I'm not even sure sometime between 2009 and 2012, probably 2010? Anyways there were adoption centers on the art forum focusing not on original species but on dta (draw to adopts) or fcfs (first come first serve) adopts, usually cats, on colored linearts. I have some of the art on my old computer I can upload if you want a section on that. cx We got in trouble several times for "stealing" but it was because the linearts were freebies from da heh.
Masked Demons: Ran by a user who I forgot the name of, they were a fairly popular closed species adoption center (circa 2013). I have some of the old art of two I owned (I have permission from the owner to change mine to normal cat ocs as the center closed).
Kandart adoptables: Another popular center but it didn't last long like the above due to the artist either being busy or loosing interest, not sure. Also have art from it still. They were fox like creatures. Ran by Dreamwonder.
Areos: Another adoption center ran by my friend Dustwind! Who is still on these forums by the same user.
It didn't last long but was popular while it did and the designs were lovely.
Dragons 101: I don't have much to say and I think it was ran by ☠ ♫ Sacred Fire ♫ ☠. It was the predecessor of both umbrulfs and fritter critters. I found someone actually posted the archives.
wcrpforums.com/thread/510/northys-thread-saver?page=1&scrollTo=142819 --raincloud33
Advice Columns
These aren't exactly as well-known as other things, but a while back, advice columns used to be everywhere on the forums. A lot were pretty successful, and some were hugely successful. They offered forumers a chance to get to know other forumers and settle their personal problems. Advice Columns had a pretty brief time reigning the forums before the began to die out as their owners left the forums and made way for a new generation that wasn't as adjusted to that style of posting. --cocokat
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Leafsong's Advice Column was the most successful. It had over fifty pages. Not sure what happened to it-- I think the mods decided the columns didn't belong in FAQ, and moved them to OTD. They probably died out because of the move.
--Shadowstalker
Blood Rebellion of 2012
The rule about blood in the Art Forum is this: drawings may contain blood. They may not contain excessive blood or gore. A blood warning must be posted for those sensitive. However, in the summer of 2012, Matt began taking down all drawings with any blood at all, even if it was an extremely low amount and there were clear warnings in both the title and the top of the thread itself. Since it was mostly my drawings being taken down, I was the one emailing the mods and, well, complaining in FAS. Over email I was told (four times during a back-and-forth conversation) that drawings were no longer allowed to contain any blood at all and that blood was considered gore. On the forums, people (myself included) began posting Warriors fanart of cats with new battle scratches covered up by smiley faces and rainbows (I think the most famous were Longtail with happy faces instead of eyes and Tigerstar with a rainbow across his muzzle). Several forumers became annoyed that we were using rainbows sarcastically as they would use them in their art and wanted to be taken seriously, and the “Blood Rebellion” slowed down, but it didn’t immediately stop, especially once people remembered that we have a scarred (not bleeding but rather destroyed) Brightheart avatar. While Matt was deleting all art with blood, Elizabeth was in FAQs and FAS telling everyone that there was no rule against it, which contradicted both Matt and my emails. The confusion lasted for a couple of weeks, but eventually the blood rule went back to normal. Oddly enough, I don’t know of anyone getting banned over it. should there be anything about it being me (mentioning my screenname), should I take out any mention of the writer of the paragraph being the one to email the mods, or is it fine as is--Hollyfrost14 of Stoneclan
Early Technical issues
- Also also, there was this thing that happened in Spring of 2010. All the letter 'E's got replaced with asterisks *. So like, if you tried to say something like:
"Silverheart groomed Eaglekit and Eaglekit was having none of her mother's nonsense."
it would've looked like
"Silv*rh*art groom*d *agl*kit and *agl*kit was having non* of h*r moth*r's nons*ns*."--Silvie
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-I remember when we were all kits for a couple hours, and KitClan and stuff like that it was pretty funny.--petewentztheemogod
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-When the highest rank was StarClan Member, and it took something like 10,000 posts to get there . --Prophet
Erin Hunter FAQ:The Erin Hunter Chats! I always used to ask questions that never got answered and I really wanted them to do them more often- and everytime they did one, the forums blew up with people who were not happy with the answers. -- Sea Drops by a Bird
I remember asking one question in my whole time there. And was always a bit annoyed you could never reply to other posts because I had answers to some people's questions.-- mintedstar/fur
Fads and Notable Wars: the otd bread war was very notable. basically a genuine flame war erupted over which type of bread was better. this was 2013/14
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also the oots vs otd war, which happened during 2011/12 years. both forums hated each other a lot, but one day in 2012 we all met up 'civilly' in a roleplay in which we literally had a war against each other to see who would win at the end. most of otd and oots turned up, as well as warriors misc becoming allies with otd and the cats becoming allies with oots. it was a very big turnout and we all kinda got along after that--seacat
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-When Fanfics were 100% rewrites of scenes in the Warriors books, or about specific characters--Prophet
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-Post headers. People would have art in their post like you might put in a siggy, but as their daily posts. Seen most often in rpers. They did separate chat and rp, thankfully. --Prophet
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-Kit-styling. You read right. There were lots of kit-_ings, hence the "no kit-_ings" rule in FanClans--Prophet
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-A time when FanClans and rpgs were one entity, as well as many different topics.--Prophet
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-The Waffle-Pancake war. When Purplee003 tried to kill Cheesypopcorncat out of nowhere.--Dictator of the World
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-The breakfast wars. When a bunch of forumers made breakfast food-related armies and tried to attack one another. The notable ones were the Waffle army. The Pancake army. And the Fruit Assassins.--Dictator of the World
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-The Great Avatar war which was when the forums divided into several sections. The Yellowfang army, the Hawkfrost army and the Brambleclaw army. There was also the Sol assassin(Brooksie). Plus, there was refuges and shelters spread all across the forums.--Dictator of the World
Someone has probably already mentioned this, but anyone remeber the avatar war? Where you got on a side with the same avatars. Where common avatars were making big groups and attacking others. And then they're were the people that only them had the avatar. *sigh* good times. I can't remember when this exactly was but likely in late 2015 early 2016 if I had to guess.--Crookie the Cookie
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-The Great Kiwis vs. Emus War --Toothless
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-It wasn't that long ago, but the Pingupocalypse was when everyone started posting Pingu, Pingu quotes, Pingu images, Pingu OCs and Pingu Ascii Art. This is the time when Bluerain achieved the status of 'Pingu'.
I'm pretty sure I started it, too, because 5 mins after I referenced the episode where Pingu peed himself suddenly everyone is posting Pingu too? –-Smileyme2
-another thing which was pretty huge was the pingu thing --Winterlynx
Nah man I helped out too, making approx. 15 Pingu threads in under an hour--Redheart of RiverClan
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Other Popular art forum trends: Banner shops (and complaining about banner shops), I'll draw your screenname, adoptables (species and dtas mostly), interactive comics, mentoring, searching for mentor threads, rp with drawings, and continue-the-story which I only saw a few times were everyone draws the next comic page of a random story kinda like rigmarole? --Raincloud33
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Warrior's World should probably be mentioned under both RPs and fads. The concept was begun by Sandy_AKA_Sandflower in 2010. Essentially, your cat character lived anthropomorphically in a human-like world. Each member made a "house" (a separate thread) that would be linked on the main WW page under specific addresses like "#3 Half Moon Cove". You could also have up to three "businesses", which were again separate threads modeled after stores (grocery, clothes, pets, etc) that other members could shop at. It was pretty neat because there was a whole economy system to it, like you started out with x amount of money and had to keep track of it/spend it/make more. The main page served as the "main village square" which doubled for both roleplay and chatroom.
I say it was a "fad" too because, well, it was for awhile. Sandy gave Brookefur permission to remake WW, and Brookefur's version exploded with popularity. I'm pretty sure a quarter of FanClans joined it as some time or another, and others tried to make copy-cats to capitalize on the popularity and fun concept. I'd say 2011-2012 was the peak.
Eventually, the main page became more chat room than roleplay, and the mods moved it from FanClans to OTD. I think that kinda ushered along its death. Because it was still primarily a roleplay at its core and it was ostracized from the one board people go to when they want to join a warriors RP. It did crawl along for a few more years, but by the forum's shuttering, there was only maybe 5 people who still popped in from time to time.
For posterity's sake, the lineage of the "official" WW: Sandy_AKA_Sandflower > Brookefur > Bubbledaisy and ~*Eveningfrost*~ (jointly) > ~*Eveningfrost*~ > Hawkwing > Rainsayer_of_FireClan > Shadowstalker > Stealthcreek
There was a ton of drama, as with any big social group. I'm pretty sure I caused half of it lol. Most of it concerned leadership contention, as whoever was second-in-command (SIC) generally took over when the current owner abdicated, and not everyone was happy with SIC choices. --Saint Ambrosef
Famous Mods/ Mod Excitement
-JanaM and Joe S, the mods ("stop fighting or heads will roll")--Cat
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- when the WCF mods were actually friendly and signed peoples' sigs.--Mσмєηтѕ
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Going off of that ^, when people used to put "[mod name] sign my siggy for a cookie!"--Redawn
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And then the really cute [Mod A nibbles the cookie] [Mod B steals cookie off Mod A] [Mod A runs after Mod B to get her cookie back]--Cloverfrost
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Oh man I remember hoping FOREVER that I would get my signature signed - I eventually did by WCM :') Those were the good old days lol.--A crying Nidoking
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Getting a moderator to "sign" your siggie was a pretty big fad for pretty much the entire forum history. Users would add a line to their signature, such as "[Mods, sign my siggie please!]" or "[*Leaves cookie for mods*]", pretty much always in square brackets. The mods in turn would use their administrative powers to replace the text in those brackets with a signed tag, such as, "[Matthew-Mod was here!]" or "[*noms cookie* -Mary-Mod]. Those "signatures" became a low key status symbol, especially if you had a lot from different mods (WCM, Matthew, Mary, Nicole, etc) or from former moderators who left the job years ago (JanaM or JoeS). -- Saint Ambrosef
Forum Shippings/Mate Threads
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it or talked about it, but when "mates" were a big thing. I don't remember the year (I think 2013-2014) but you would scroll down the otd(?) page and there would be at least 5 "looking for a mate!" pages. Someone even set up a "dating" page. You would fill out a forum and then they would match you to someone who had similar interests. --breadcat
Another fad was forum "mates". Some people treated it as a joke, or just someone they enjoyed as a roleplaying companion, but other people treated it as a real online relationship. There was a lot more girls than boys on the forums, and so it was a running joke whenever a guy posted a "Looking for a mate thread" to comment "*hands shield* good luck", as a tongue-and-cheek acknowledgement of the hordes of girls that would soon dogpile his thread. Imagine the Bachelor but with 11-14yros on the internet. It could get nasty at times.
As a side note, "forum families" were tangentially related. It was like a chiller version of forum mates and more like an acknowledgement of good friendship between users, referring to each other as "forum sister/brother" or sometimes more jokingly "forum mom/dad". It was cute and harmless. -- Saint Ambrosef
Forums Apocalypse
-Late 2011-early 2012: Waaay waaay back in the day, sometime in late 2011 or early 2012, when the first forum apocalypse happened, and literally no one could respond to threads for over an hour so people literally flooded otd and fanclans with shout outs to each other and someone would respond with another shout out post--candler
Fritter Critters
Fritter critters: Fritters was a group ran by myself which began 2012 and ended (forum wise) in 2016 with the closing of the old wcf. I still have the project/group offsite but on a sorta hiatus. It took place on a fictional planet and the "game's" goal was to collect fritters- it has several versions, up to v5, which I have links to on the wayback machine so I can maybe get screenshots but eh. I used to hold scavenger hunts and other events and we'd rp and chat, primarily. Mostly chat.
The name got changed from "fritter critter adoptions to "Fritter Critter and Nocturnal Imp Adoptions" at either v4 or v5 (v4's link on wayback machine doesn't work anymore).
We got forced to move to otd after staff deemed my group "wasn't art centered enough" which we tried to get a petition to stop lol. cx The two longest members besides myself were wonderingsoul and Funeral Embrace For The Dying Heart, who still own fritter characters.
There's more to it than that as it was a biggish group and a lot of fun times and memories in it for me but that's the short version? --raincloud33
House of Awesomeness
The House of Awesomeness was first created on the 18th of June, 2013, by me, ۰ƤƖƝƘƖЄƑƲƦ۰, a one month old member at that time. The thread does not resemble the current thread much, it had a different layout, a very bad one I’ll admit (see screenshot below) *cringes*, few chatters, was more of a den than a chatroom, and had a whole different name. Its first name was “Pinkie’s Mansion” yes… yes… I know, just what, and it introduction even said, “You are in Pinkiefur’s Mansion… (It's like a den, but fancier, and awesomer.)” I don’t even know what I was thinking, it reeked of noob, and it got the attention it asked for too, hardly anyone chatted there, except for a couple of my real life friends when we had to get to an off topic thread.
As I grew forum-older that summer, and lost my noob status, the thread began to change. The title changed from “Pinkie’s Mansion,” to “the house of awesomeness,” “[something fancier with symbols and stuff]” to its current title, “{◎}--{ƬHΣ HΘƱЅΣ ΘF ÁШΣЅΘΜΣ∏ΣЅЅ}--{◎}” The thread’s layout also improved, thankfully. And although we would periodically have conversations on the thread, it still wasn’t a go to place to chat yet.
Then, on October 3rd 2013, my real life BFF, Rainpath117, created a clan called Sootclan. People we knew from the fanfiction forum (such as Nutpelt5216 and Katanaheart), people we knew in real life (such as Foxfury and Turtlestep), as well as just people who were browsing fanclans (such as Gira and Icestorm) joined, and the clan grew successful pretty fast. The House of Awesomenss was sometimes used as a place for off topic chat. We all became good friends, and this was the start of The House of Awesomenss family. Then, fights broke out. People thought, among other things, that other people were taking too much control of the plot, and they started quitting the clan. A few tried to keep it going, but it died out, and attempts to create a version 2 failed. So, there was a bunch of people who had become really good friends, but didn’t really have a stable thread to chat with each other on anymore. That’s why they all slowly migrated over to THOA in the middle of fall 2013, and the chat really began to take off.
The thread became more of a chat and less of a den, my personal links and kits disappeared from the front page and were replaced with things like emoticons we named and gave personalities to, and member’s art. Hardly anything stayed the same from the first time I created the page except the rooms in the house. We gained pages quickly, especially on the old forums, where it was only 15 posts per page, and got to celebrate a huge milestone, 1000 pages. (The pages quickly vanished down to around 600 when we moved to hoop.la, but still) Then, in the middle of November we started celebrating the holidays. We decorated a Christmas quote tree, (see screenshot below) played various holiday games, and most importantly, hung virtual mistletoe. The rules with mistletoe was that the first poster who posted on a page that’s page number ended in a zero had to “dramatically rollplay kissing the second poster on the page.” It was funny and lighthearted at first, the first ever couple to get stuck under the mistletoe was Larkfeather and Xerneas and their rollplay looked something like: “//kisses X” and that was that. However, the rping started getting more and more detailed, and soon after we got deleted for the first time. That was a tragedy for us, because it was our first time getting deleted like that, and we had accumulated so many pages. Someone, I think it was Rainpath117, posted the first thread titled “oh nononono,” which has now become a custom whenever we get deleted.
After a few days emailing the mods, we had got a copy and pasted reply to why we were deleted, annoying and irritating to say the least. We created another thread, and after some debate over if we should keep the mistletoe thing going we decided to go for it. Our thread got deleted for the second time after about 100 pages. --Dragostea Din Tei Kitty 333
Imaginary Friends:
So basically, this was a very popular chat thread in OTD, around 2013 I think? Anyway, the premise was that everybody who joined had several "imaginary friends", and everyone would roleplay their imaginary friends in a "script" format. We'd have huge story arcs and adventures with our IFs. Loads of fun. Everyone also had "imaginary enemies" (IEs) and "imaginary neutrals" (INs). Unfortunately, most of the thread's members seemed to have a certain affinity for trying to get as much past the mods' radar as possible, which led to the thread being deleted over and over and over again. Finally, the IFs members got fed up and moved to their own site on ProBoards. They did this right around the time that I, a member of the thread, took a break from the forums, so when I returned, I was confused that I couldn't find the thread. Had they finally given up on trying to stay alive? But a few months later, I saw a post by the thread's founder, Mosseyes, which alluded to the fact that they'd moved to another website. After some searching, I managed to find it and rejoin them. We chatted there for another year or two, but unfortunately, everyone got in a huge fight about a year ago, and people slowly stopped talking. Now the site is dead, a barren, frozen monument to that ragtag group of intrepid friends who went through so much together, only to fall from within. I only know of one other former IFs member who is on this site, but if the rest of you are out there... I love you.
So there you go, that's the story of the IFs. --%Treestar%
Karma Games
"Karma Games" doesn't make much sense if you weren't on the old Eve boards. But back in the day, your post count was called "Karma" on your profile. There were different profile "ranks" depending on your post count. I believe it was something like 0 = kit; 50 = apprentice; 250 = Warrior; 1,000 = Leader; 5,000 = Elder; 10,000 = StarClan Member; 50,000 = StarClan Leader; 100,000 = Super Message Board User. (Those numbers may be off, but its an approximation).
Some people REALLY wanted to get to a specific rank, so "karma games" in Warriors Misc. were common. Usually they were thinly veiled excuses to spam. Examples:
CharacterX v CharacterY, in which two random characters were pitted against each other, the thread started at 100, and posters would either subtract one (-1) to support one character or add one (+1) for the other until it reached 0 or 200 signaling that one character won more support.
Continue the name: you start with one warrior name and the next poster had to use that suffix as the next prefix. e.g., "Yellowfang" > "Fangscar" > "Scarpelt" > "Peltshine" > etc.
Count to 1000": exactly what it sounds like. -- Saint Ambrosef
KitClan Chat
Also, not sure if anyone else actually knew about or read through this ancient chat that was in OTD, but there was a chat called KitClan Chat by LeafKit14. It got deleted a lot and would be subsequently replaced by myself, under the SN ☪silentfrost☪ or something similar. I can't remember all of my name changes. Those chats would also be deleted because my group liked to argue and flame each other. The list of members is fairly vague in my memories, but I remember most of them.
The members of the chat were as follows, in decreasing memory, except for myself at the end:
Leafkit14
TimberRing
GoldenMane
Wolf Who Walks Alone/KitWolf
Dan/DanCat
Crowpawxxxxx Or something like that.
Squirrelpaw
Heather (I can only remember her as her real name, which she disclosed to us.)
Starling something or other. We just called her Lingling.
The Ghost of Silverflash/☪silentfrost☪/SILENTSTAR THE GREAT/Silverflash/Silent Frost That Stills the Night--Novice Creeps
Kit-Stealing/Saving
-Kit stealing was going to other clans and adoption centers and "stealing" kits via roleplay. It was a way of growing your clan and having fun. Some well known kit stealing roleplays were/are Megaboneclan, The Sisterhood, Brambleclan, etc. Being successful is the same as any other clan - lots of members, lots of fun, plots, etc. MBC and The Sisterhood kept getting deleted and The Sisterhood eventually died away. Kit stealing was really popular in the WCF's old days.
Some people took kit stealing too far and would steal without permission (which was considered spam). And it took on new forms: kit steaking, hugging, dressing, anything like that. It was also considered spam. That is how the "No kit-_____ing" rule developed.
There was also a counter-kit stealing group called the Kit Savers that would "fight" (roleplay with kit stealing roleplays) to return kits to their clans or give them a better home. That was so long ago though. I think the last person who ran it was Silverbreeze.
imo, kit stealing was a lot of fun. I was a kit stealer myself and I really miss it, too bad people did it tastelessly, now it's pretty much universally banned across fanclans.
I remember kit stealers used to have pages that listed all the kits they'd stolen. I may not be remembering this correctly, but sometimes other kit stealers would come along and re-steal the kits. xD
Kit-Stealers would steal from other kit-stealers and kit-savers would try to take them back. It got a little crazy at one point because someone's actually character got stolen and they didn't want that. So when they told the person that stole them they wanted their character back, they said no. So a kit that was RPed by someone was stolen without permission and then wasn't given back to the original owner who RPed the character that never wanted to be stolen in the first place. --A crying Nidoking
Okay so I have some old screenshots from 2013 because I was one of the kit savers circa 2012 after being a member of the kit stealers for a bit and running into them.
Silverbreeze or Silverstar was the leader of the kit savers, her forum name later became just Silver and then in my screenshots in 2013 she seems to go by >>blizzard but by then she was already less active.
Wildfire100 was the deputy and the two of them were forum mates I think? idk
I went by honeyfeather:) back then, and the other active members were ~*Blackmoon*~ and Daughter of Revenge (who had to remake her account after getting banned for some stuff that happened on the kit stealers thread I kind of remember but it was personal stuff and she became DaughterofRevenge2)
There were a few others, I recall one being called Bramble and another being called Flame, but I know that's only half their username. I was out of school because of medical issues back then so for a while I tried to leave a trail of breadcrumbs online to find them again because they really all meant a lot to me and were my closest friends for a while.
Now I just kind of regret not saving my cringey first fanfiction on a backup so I could look back on it lol.
EDIT: their name was Flamewhisker I forgot I have notes on this
Also in case anyone else is curious the wayback machine has some things archived -- Honeyfeather
Every type of kit-___ing that I can remember, from most popular to most obscure: stealing, saving, styling, washing, hugging, naming, dreaming (idek), replacing, scaring, ghosting, and cursing. I'm sure there was more. This was maybe from 2010-2013, with its peak in 2011? Kit-___ing kinda died out after that, with just a few kit-stealing strongholds remaining.
But most everyone during that era either tried out some version of it themselves or hated the trend. It could be really disruptive. Some of the clans devoted to kit-stealing were respectful about asking permission from another roleplay before engaging, but most just barged into your RP thread unannounced and "one-posted" (i.e. described their character as coming in, doing ___ to your kit, and leaving all in one post so there was no opportunity for engagement from the thread participants). So it became very common to see "No kit-___ing" in a roleplay thread's posted rules to discourage this. -- Saint Ambrosef
MageBoneClan
MageBoneClan it is. Well little children, it's time for a story.
It all started back in the September of 2009. MegaBoneClan, also known as MBC, or Mega BoneClan, was created by a member called Thundersky. MBC was a very unique Clan considering it was the first kit-stealing Clan. Kit-stealing, now very popular, is where members would steal roleplayed kits from Clans, now adoption centers and other places too, on the Forums. Many other Clans emerged from this with the same activity, and kit-stealing has never truly worn away, it has become a popular trend. Other notable kit-stealing Clans included RevengeClan(RC), RisingEvilClan(REC), and DarkFountainClan (DFC). MBC is also different considering it was the first, and also the only actual Clan to be banned as a whole. The moderators have outlawed it due to the result of many "flame wars" (Defined if you need it) because the Clan would bully or insult other Forumers and even members of their own Clan, mostly the newer ones. The main reason it was banned though was due to "ban-hopping". This is where a member would get around being banned simply by creating a new account. And also it was mainly a chat thread more than anything else instead of roleplaying. Many times before other Clans have tried to "reincarnate" the Clan. Notable Clans are RisingEvilClan; a Clan that was MBC's rival and many flame wars were held, RevengeClan; who they roleplayed many wars with in the 2010's, ~MidnightRose~; a member whom was banned (I think) and caused many flame wars, Tha Pants Family; a group they were allies with in 2012 after both were banned, MegaSkullClan; a reincarnation of the Clan created by Willowcloud in summer of 2011, A Scattered Clan; another reincarnation of MegaBoneClan created by Graydawn shortly after the clan was banned. Deleted and Graydawn refused to make it, so MSC was made, A Clan Forgotten: another reincarnation of MegaBoneClan, created in spring of 2012 by Kindledflame. --Brightspirit of Windclan
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-For clarification for younger users, MegaBoneClan was a kit stealing clan (a very, very successful one). Think Brambleclan, The Sisterhood, etc. I can't remember exactly why, but the clan got banned from the forums, no one was allowed to remake any kind of MegaBoneClan.--A crying Nidoking
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They made an offsite forum for themselves, not sure if it's up and running anymore!
I in MBC around the time they were forever banned from the forum. The thread for MBC initally got deleted several times, some reasons being "describing mating," "personal talk" and someone mentioning they were bi. Eventually the mods got tired of them, I think, so they made a site for themselves and the thread got deleted because someone posted an outside link.--Cat
Name RatersOther Warriors Misc games that were less spammy: Name Raters, in which you gave the OP a list of original names for warriors and they'd rate them subjectively; "Relate any two cats", where the OP or next poster had to figure some way in which two cats were directly or indirectly related; and "Guess the cat", when an OP would give a riddle or share sparse details about a specific canon character and everyone had to guess which one it was. -- Saint AmbrosefNewspapers
- Do you guys remember the newspaper fads? In warriors misc people would start "site newspapers". IMO, I thought it was really cool, but I think only one or two of them got off the ground. Didn't they interview fanfic writers and clan leaders, report on new clan goings ons and stuff like that?--A crying Nidoking
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I had one for myself, Dawnfire, and someone else that we roped in against their will. It had 3 editions, sent over email.
--Cloverfrost
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OTD Animals
OTD NIGHT OWLZ
January 22nd, 2013. It was late at night, around 11:30 EST, and OTD had slowed to its usual post-9:00 crawl. There was just a handful of people on at the time when a new thread titled, "Who all is on?" popped up. Everyone was bored with the same few active threads that were still breathing that late, so we naturally flocked to the new topic.
It started out as just a chatroom. But it was bumped up again the next night.
Fading Dawn, the thread creator, decided to turn it into an official late-night chat. It was titled "The Night Owlz," to reflect the nature of its regulars. A curfew was put in place: nobody was allowed to post on the thread between 7:00am and 7:00pm. Every new member had to pick "secret mission codenames," which became their name everyone on the thread knew them by. Like most OTD chatrooms, it wasn't a particularly serious topic, and most conversations were us fooling around. To help encourage regular activity, ranks were established. The original posters of the thread became the Parliament (a word meaning both a flock of owls and a council), who acted as the thread moderators. Regularly active members had the status Barnmate, and from there could be promoted to Parliament. Newbies were known as Fledglingz.
OTD Night Owlz was a rampant success. The original thread has 2,985 pages and over 44k posts. Many other popular chatrooms were inspired by the Owlz, such as the OTD Animals and OTD Pokemon. It became the place we all looked forward to posting at at the end of the day, especially after school.
It has been deleted a few times. The first time was because a fight broke out due to a troll. The second thread didn't last very long, as some of the members discussed the troll despite being told not to, and the mods deleted it again. It has been deleted two more times after that, although I don't remember the reasons. We had some particularly dramatic members, so trouble could be had. The fifth thread was on the old Warriors Forums when the site was shut down.
The Night Owlz struggled with activity from mid-2014 til the forum's end. I believe this can be chalked up to two reasons: first, much of OTD had already tried the chat out, as joining became a fad but few became regulars. Second, because a lot of the old regulars were leaving the forums or just being generally inactive due to school and other responsibilities.
Since moving to these forums, the Night Owlz have discovered a surge of activity and popularity once more.
The owlz have been a big impact on my life. Fading Dawn and I became forum sisters, then best friends. Now we see each other in real life a few times a year. And of course, the rest of my friends there.
Some notable members:
Fading Dawn (Toby), the creator; .:Mapleshadow:. (Obidiah); Shadowstalker (Quies); ❀ℓєgєη∂ ιмρєяιαℓ❀ (Nic); Summerhawk (Rowan); Rainbowtalon (Robot); »Icєclαw« (Ellie); »ƑαƖcση (Avery); Tidestripe (Mari); pαɴтнerѕнαdow (Eises)
I'm sure there's more, but I don't have the greatest memory. There was also John/Martin, Santos, Appie (Appaloosa), Ettie, Herobrine, and Sylvia, but I do not remember what their screen names were.—Shadowstalker
--uh here's a summary if you don't put in the whole thing (which is what i would do)
i got banned and then thought that random humor was bad and banhopped to create a new chat, the sun warriors, where there was no random humor and had a 7 am to 7pm curfew because i thought they were being elitist and they thought they had a monopoly on the idea of curfew. there was a huge fight and that may have led to a deletion of the night owlz.
again sorry for editing things so much it was 4 years ago and the memories are foggy --whyamihere
Roast Me topics
-The great roast night which sparked the salt overflow. --reallyusefulengine
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I’ll expand on that. ‘Roast me’ was a type of topic fad that probably started because of The Milky Way’s topics that told their unsugarcoated opinion on you. Roast Me topics just went one step further and forumers would tell you the flaws they saw. Sometimes this would just be a joke. Say your screenname was Hawkfeather. Someone may say, ‘You have too many feathers.’
The salt overflow just meant that people started to be extra sarcastic. Or ‘salty’. Jokes that were sarcastic were also prominent. --mintedstar/fur
SavageClan and the rise of Kit-Stealing
You all know them - some of you might even fear them. SavageClan, one of the oldest, most well-known Clans on the entire forums. SavageClan is solely a kit-stealing Clan, with focus on bringing a good name to kit-stealers while keeping the forum hobby alive. SavageClan has been rebuilt twelve times, as of 4/24/14, and first started to come about when kit-stealing started getting attention on the forums. For a period of about two or three years, kit-stealing was every forumer's favorite form of forum entertainment, and it generated a lot of other kit-_______s. Everyone wanted in, and it wasn't very hard to find a good community to join. I myself was a member of SavageClan for a while. Eventually, due to unfortunate circumstances, kit-stealing began to die. Recently, a community has, however, sprung up in an attempt to bring the forums into a new era of kit-stealing. --cocokat
Swiftclan
The Awesomez
The awesomez were a 'superior' group of active members in 2010/11/12 who roamed oots and were best friends who many people admired. notable members include 3 kits, mooncrystal, tearpool, lightflame, starblaze, ceiling cat and basement cat plus many more. it was very hard to join them. i joined them in 2010 as breezelight and we are all still best friends now, with a skype group and we are planning a meetup. so yeah we're still very active but obviously not known as the awesomez anymore. we've all grown up now.--seacat
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As you know there's the group called the Awesomez, there was also a group called the Epicz, led by someone called Minnowbreeze (she was eventually banned from the forums). The two groups essentially didn't get on, my young naive self was introduced to both these groups from a neutral standpoint by a friend of mine, and I somehow ended up with the Epicz after getting on well with some of the Awesomez. There was an off forum site, and sometimes arguments between the Epicz and Awesomez off the forums as well.. The epicz kind of crossed paths occasionally with the pants family. We don't really talk anymore, I guess everyone's gone seperate ways.
Looking back I realise how immature I was, n I wish everyone in both groups well. pls add to this if u remember anything as i might appear biased and i don't know at all how the group started anyway. --featherbreeze
The Cat Family
This was late 2012 - basically the cat family was a bunch of users in otd that had the word 'cat' at the end of their name and you could only join if you had that word at the end of your name. notable users in this group were 'black cat' and 'white cat', i believe who were the creators of it. hence how sea cat was born. i used to be 'breezelight' but really wanted to join the cat family so made an account called sea cat so i could join--seacat
The Cat Killing ScareIn June 2015 mods began deleting topics were cats were killed. A forumer by the screen name of mintedstar/fur was the first to ever report of a topic being deleted in FAQs. She searched the words Cat Killing, when coupled together to see if anyone had ever asked a similar question, but there was nothing. So she asked why her new graphic novel, which had not depicted any gore or blood, had been deleted for this unheard of rule.
No one knew. As the days went on more and more topics were deleted simply because a cat had died. Moderators were split down the middle on this new rule. Some didn’t enforce it and said it didn’t exist. Others said that cats could no longer die in stories, fan clans, or graphic novels unless it was from natural causes.
The forumers, as expected, didn’t like this new rule. They posted petitions and protests. The moderators had to go all the way to the head mod just to see if it was a new rule or not. The verdict? It was ruled that cats could die as long as it wasn’t gory (i.e. the same as it had been before).
As far as I know, no one was directly banned for Cat Killing. However, some were probably banned or suspended for causing a few arguments over this temporary ghost rule.
This time in forum history is now called the Cat Killing Scare.--mintedstar/fur
This is pretty cool that it is being revisited. I joined the old forum in 2014 and hung mostly in the Fan Fic section but I remember the uproar about "killing cats" being a no no all of a sudden and one day came in to find my Fic NEW BLOOD-Born of Smoke & Fire had been deleted by someone tho nobody could figure it out. OMG I was infuriated after all that work. I think I had up too Chap 9 done by then. VERY FEW cats actually died in my fic until later chapters like 14 and 15. -- phantomstar57
The Day Love WonHonestly can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet. It was pretty big. Anyway, it happened on November 1 2015. One topic post started it all. I can't remember who started it, but that person had been playing around with previously starred out words: gay, bisexual, lesbian ect. To their amazement, they had been unstarred and you could now post them. So they said in a topic that the words could now be said (before the words had been starred out and people could be banned, and where, for saying the words or any discussion about LGBTQ+ matters).
The forums exploded. Topics left and right were posted, mostly about a forumer being gay or whether this was some mistake or if everyone
finally got to say they bisexual, gay, agender ect. The start of all this literally happened midnight of the 1st of November. Everything was created. Topics were deleted, but most people couldn't tell if it was because of the previously banned subject or because the posts had been considered spam.
That night passed with only a few people saying they wanted the words to be re-starred. This was mostly stated (as far as I could find) by people who were worried that this would start fights later on.
(All the above info was found from searching old topics the day after.)
The next morning, many topics in my usual haunt, the WFF (Warrior Fan Fictions), now had the words "November 1st, the Day Love Won". I, having just come on the scene, wondered what that meant. I had seen a topic that said words had been unstarred, but I was worried about curse words. Turns out I wasn't the only one wondering because other people were asking as well. The author (and fans) of Off & Running told use what had happened. You could hear the joy even through a computer screen.
I didn't really know what to think...
I, in the background, watched.
Search became my favorite thing that week. I was watching, worried there would be fights. And I wasn't alone.
The biggest question in those days were, "Will this last? So, can we really talk about this now? Is it allowed?"
I watched the FAQs, waiting. I was still trying to decide if I wanted this. Did I? Everyone seemed so happy. No fights had happened. Not yet. We had lasted three days, and everyone seemed okay with letting everyone celebrate.
Since my 'home field' was WFF, I'll tell you what happened there. A few authors can out and a few authors came out for their characters. One of my memories was of a famous author saying to the waiting fans, "I know some of you had probably guessed this already. But _____ is lesbian."
And nearly laughed out loud at the crows of "I knew it!"
In my little corner of the Warrior Cat Forum we did have a few discussions (well, everyone else did. I was still gathering information, as it were) about a few of the forumers who said they "didn't support, but were okay with it and they weren't going to bash people". One fan on our adopted discussion page (red: one other fan fictions) said this and one forumer asked if it was for religious reasons (because they said their religion in their signature). The forumer admitted that it was, and then said that they disagreed with it on the same level they you disagree with which food is better or which hair color.
Now, in FAQs there was still no word from the mods and I had finally gained an opinion in the matter. People were happy and I wanted them to stay that way. Let the words stay unstarred and let the discussions continue. All we needed now was for the mods to say it was allowed. FAQs topics on the matter had almost turned into discussion topics. People wanted to know if they now could have RPs with gay characters. Some forums were just going ahead and making them anyway. Hollyfrost14 of Stoneclan, the person who edited the ghost rules, kept e-mailing the mods for answers. In fact, just about everyone in those topics were e-mailing the mods, asking for answers. The answering e-mails got more vague and more angry. The mods wouldn't answer the questions in FAQs and they wouldn't answer the ones through e-mail. One forumer gave a possible answer as to why. They couldn't. The company, they said, that owned the rights to the Warriors series couldn't say that it was okay because the company wasn't for the LGBTQ+ Community. They limited what could even be said in the Warriors series and they limited what was aloud on the Warriors Forum. We would never get our answer of confirmation.
Turns out they were right. We never did get our answer of "Yes, it is aloud". But the forums move on like we had. Rollplays started allowing LGBTQ+ characters, fan fictions could now openly have a character who liked another character of the same gender, when people looked for forum mates they could say they were female and that they wanted a female mate. The forums seemed to run smoothly as well. I still used Search every now and again to check. I heard nothing about a fight and/or bullying until
six months later and the person was promptly banned.
That was when love won.
Fun Fact: People of the Writer's Guild found out about the unstarring of gay, asexual, bigender, ect.
long before November 1. They said that the words had been unstarred around 2014, not 2015. But their small discussion of this matter never got very far past the Writer's Guild when they found this out back in 2014. --mintedstar/fur
The OotS Weddings
-The OotS weddings, where people would choose characters from the books as mates and "marry" them. --firefeather
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the oots weddings were set up in around 2010 i believe and overall there were around 8 of them. for each oots wedding, 2 different members of the awesomez were asked to host them (which basically consisted of making the thread, structuring what happened, and giving out the vows). the awesomez created the oots weddings as a way to bring everyone together. basically around of a couple of weeks before the first oots wedding, a thread was made so people could claim the cats they wanted to marry, because people couldn't marry the same cat. as you can imagine, most of the main characters got taken very quickly due to the popularity of the idea.
the oots weddings were basically an rp thread for each wedding made in the fan clan section of the forums, where everyone would rp with each other and their chosen cats. the hosts of the oots weddings would give out wedding vows which each rper would have to repeat with their name and their chosen cats name in the vows where applicable. after this it was mainly a party and 'taking your cat into the bushes' was a very popular thing.
then when the next oots wedding arised, the claiming thread would be brought back up so more people could choose their cats and it got to the point where so many characters were chosen (even the very minor ones were taken) that people started to marry characters outside of warriors which showed how popular they really were.--seacat
The Pants Family
The Pants family was led by a now banned member called Thrushpool. Every chatter/member that joined there would be given a name ending in pants (For Example; Sandinmypants, Featherpants, etc.) They started out as any other thread in June 2012 with around ten members. However they quickly grew more popular. They became very influential in the Off Topic Discussion areas. They were deleted several times, each time creating a new thread, there were around 16 in the end. All got removed by the Mods. They were always posting outside links, and talking about topics that were deemed to "adult" for the Forums. They were eventually forbidden to make Pants threads and Thrush was banned in August for remakign them so many times. It is said once Thrushpool and SparklySeaPants had a fight over who was the coolest, but came to the conclusion SparklySea was the coolest member. They also apparently had a graveyard for members who had left the Forums or had been banned. In the end they made there own site and came in contact with MBC.--Brightspirit of Windclan
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-i've never been a fan of that entry, because it never tells how the pants family actually began in the first place. the original 'pants family' joke thread was created by denim jeans as a parody of their name. people then started coming in and identifying themselves as pants with you as one of the more involved members and the one that came up with the idea to turn it into an actual organized forum family. after the first few threads were deleted and denim was banned, you became known as the leader and the owner of the denim account was left unknown by most and then y'all just kind of moved on from there
that's just how i remember it, anyway. --Roswell
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I'd like to add on to this. I was Thrushpool67/Thrusbpool/Thrushpool on the old forums. Let me tell you the mods HATED us. Which was fair, we kept breaking rules. We broke almost every rule imaginable. But it got to the point that if some of the regular pants chatters made a thread in OTD after one of our thread got deleted - they would lock it or delete it with no questions asked. If I remember correctly I got suspended once for recreating deleted threads (the pants threads), and then permanently banned for it later. by that time we had reached "the pants family v7" in thread titles.
We even have our own warriors forums wiki page and honestly I don't remember who created it. It was more of a joke than anything else.
We got together with MBC for a brief period because the mods also banned us from making any pants family topics. We thought it was really funny to both be banned from the forums.
Every pants thread started off with the same outline and the list of pants members. Not every chat thread started off that way but it would be edited later on to skip bv the mods. Went like this:
Cringe central for me but I do miss all of my old friends. I was like.... 14-15 years old. I'm still really good friends with the user White Cat (super old name) off the forums. I have contact info for some of the regs.
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Here's an archived OTD page with one of our threads on it (glastonbury tor - rest in peace) and the Writer's Guild. I think this was back in the day when there was no fanfic forum.
I wish I had screenshots or had saved Methylclan, though. I was deputy for a little bit. We raided Savageclan once. Good times, good times. -- A crying Nidoking
Warrior's Game
Does anyone else remember the online Warriors game that they were making? I remember the mods making so much hype for it, and even posted links for the forum users to apply to beta test it! I remember getting accepted as a beta tester, and the game was amazing. It was a little laggy, but the animations were smooth ( same art and animation style as the prey hunting game of the official site) and you had to play as a kit/ apprentice. It was up to you and four rouges named River, Thunder, Shadow, and Wind find a safe place for them and their cats. They had the game designer on the fourms, and even had their own section for topics. Then one day out of the blue, all the topics were locked, both HC and the mods acted like the game never existed and never answered anyone's questions on this subject. This was long before OOTS AND DOTC, and it this was back in 2009. My memory is a little fuzzy, so hopefully someone else can help add to this subject! c: --therubyfox
Weddings
-Weddings. Mates would "marry" or whatever. I made a banner for one XD--Prophet
WHAT THE WAFFLES
WHAT THE WAFFLES thread. I don't even remember what it was about, only that is lorded over Misc for years and permanently seemed to have "500 PAGE/1000 PAGE/2000 PAGE/etc PARTY." As I said, I don't remember what the topic actually was-- it might have been a karma game at once point, but I think it turned into a chatroom. It was made by cakeengland
--Shadowstalker
When Hamsters Ruled the Forums
When Scary stuff became popular
Writer's Guild
We are a group of writers who gone through many many things together. We may have become a chatroom of sorts, but that never deters from our purpose - to grow as writers and to achieve our authoring dreams. In many senses we're not just random forumers chatting and bonding over writing, we're a family who welcomes every new member with open arms. People have come and gone, we've celebrated the additions and mourned the losses. We've held parties and celebrations and have had good laughs all around. The Writer's Guild isn't just a chatroom for writers to gain advice. This is a unique group of people that are family. This has been founded by Silverfang back on 10th April 2011. For five years, we've grown into a magical place. Now we have breached the part where we're in uncharted grounds, but we thrive because we have each other.--storywriter
Ze Place of Fangirling/Le Place of Fangirling (And other famous chat-rooms)
i also hung out at "le place of fangirling" which i see is listed here as "ze place of fangirling". i dont remember which is true. i didnt spend nearly as much time there as i didnt really fit in but i liked the thread owner (i cannot remember her name, just that she was obsessed with owl city). fangirling was basically a thread where you claimed a (or multiple) fictional character as your significant other and rped as them to "fangirl". except only one person was allowed to claim each character so people got in wars over who got to keep someone. it was crazy. --knightofratatosk
OTD Animals:
so OTD animals was started by pepsi/peppermint as an extension of the banning of OTD night owlz. i was apart of the pants family (leotard is up on the list, hey there!) at the ripe age of 9 years old HAHA. being 20 now and reflecting is such a shock to me. so basically members would “claim” an animal nickname and we would just chat about anything in the world. i don’t remember too many names, but i do remember nessie and lily. god, what i would do to speak to them again and catch up
but anyways, there was also a den i frequented named “emo king” or something and i remember chatting on there a lot as well. i even had my own den that got pretty popular in a short amount of time when peppermint left the forums. i remember that threads couldn’t be private, so you had to emphasize that your den was “open” (exclusive VIP ONLYYYY)!! -- Pisces
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It didn't last long but was popular while it did and the designs were lovely. 
but anyways, there was also a den i frequented named “emo king” or something and i remember chatting on there a lot as well. i even had my own den that got pretty popular in a short amount of time when peppermint left the forums. i remember that threads couldn’t be private, so you had to emphasize that your den was “open” (exclusive VIP ONLYYYY)!! -- Pisces
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