"Shared Alt" problems.
Foxy (
imgflip.com/user/SpookyFoxy) found out that the password to an account - an inactive account created by someone else, with the name of ___xFoxy- was "Password". Foxy renamed it to "e...". Cam got the password. Cam's friends got the password. The account soon got mod.
And it mentioned all of it's inhabitants in a mildly popular tagline. Users begged to be in the account just so they could be in the tagline.
First, we faced the problem of the account posting borderline ToS violations. There was no way to know who posted anything, and banning the account would be punishing 68 other people who were only having fun.
Second, one user from the account started to seriously harass specific users.
Most people blamed Trap (
imgflip.com/user/DenjiKun), which was pretty harsh given that it wasn't Trap. But his reputation was just that way.
It was Nar. It's safe to admit it now, now that she's left. Nevertheless, she's proud of herself.
We'd never faced any problems of the kind before the shared alt, so mods didn't know how to handle it.
I was one of the users on the alt, so it was hard to remove it's mod.
I removed the account's mod. I also temporarily banned the account for spamming hot swears in comments.
Several other "Shared alts" popped up afterwards. But none were of the same interest to the general public. Bazooka made a pretty elaborate stream rule to regulate the conduct of "Shared alts", given the history of e... .
One of the users on the e... account then deleted the account. We don't know who.
There were several other e's, each with more periods than it's predecessor, and then the concept died out.
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