Jiggmin.com Historical Reference Guide

The Jiggmin.com Historical Reference Guide was a thread on Jiggmin's Village started by JoMan112 in early 2009. It was later taken over by Ievory in 2012 after he left the community, then by Ringstaart in 2014."[NEW Jiggmin.com Historical References Guide".] Jiggmin's Village. March 7, 2012."[REVIVED Jiggmin.com Historical References Guide".] Jiggmin's Village. January 3, 2014.
The thread catalogs events and people the thread owners considered noteworthy in the community's history, saying: 
"Sometimes you newer members may see some of the Ultimate Users joking or ranting about people or events, or just mentioning them. You, as a newer villager, very likely will not know what we're talking about... But you will now!".
It became one of the more popular threads in the community, with JoMan's May 2009 thread receiving nearly 60,000 views by April 2015 and being stickied by the staff in June 2011."Library of the Ancients" - Jiggmin's Village (April 2015 archive)
Although the guide has been ported to Acid Forums and JV Revival, no new entries have been added apart from mentioning jiggmin.com's shut down.
Link: https://jiggmin2.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=292
==Entries on Wiki==
*Jiggmin2
*Blindi
*Forseti
*SavsAwesomeClub
*The Renovation
*UnknownAX Disaster
*JVclub
*The Macroing of '09
*Ghost Blogs
*JV 4.0
*Emerald
*The Great Rebellion
*The First Annual Leniency Day
*FreeRice
*Swearing Rule
*COPPA
*2012 Virus
*Hero of the Week
*Shadow Council of Nine
*Flood of Contests
*2013 SCoN Leak
*Infectious Obsessions
*Spam Bam Party Fan
*Conquest
*JV's death
==Controversies==
The guide has received criticism over the years. 
Since entries were written by one person, some have been criticized for their perceived bias; both of their description of events and which ones were chosen for inclusion in the guide. Many entries for retired staff members for example include some form of the phrase "possibly the best mod we ever had". Forseti specifically has criticized his paragraph as portraying the wrong image of himself and for lacking his side of the story."corrections for the Historical References Guide". Forseti. May 21, 2020.
JoMan later added the following disclaimer to the guide in 2011 for entries written in 2009: 
"It should be noted that most of the following material was written over two years ago. The opinions expressed here are solely those of the individuals providing them and may not continue to reflect those providers' opinions at the present time.""[RECOVERED Jiggmin.com Historical References Guide".] Jiggmin's Village. May 14, 2009.
Ringstaart removed a number of paragraphs from the guide after he took over that he felt weren't important enough to stay as time passed, all of which were about certain members. They're still listed at the bottom of the thread for historical reasons, but are no longer part of the main guide.
===Inaccuracies===
Despite its popularity, the guide contains several inaccuracies. 
*The original jiggmin.com forum was never located at jiggmin2.com as the thread implies."Gaming Forum" - jiggmin.com (August 2007 archive) That site always served as a host for Jiggmin's multiplayer games or other files for his single player ones.
*While Blindi did cause a swear filter to be added to JV, there's at least one documented case of someone swearing on the site before him."SPAM". Jiggmin's Village. October 2007.
*b@byG, E46M3 and Melanie merely demodded Forseti and didn't ban him for sharing his PR2 mod account. He was even told by one of them that he could potentially be remodded later on. XPA! was the one who banned him after he pruned the forums (which, ironically, was XPA!'s idea).
*UnknownAX actually created a blog, not a thread, to tell everyone to be on PR2's Isabel server. He also said "be there", not "you won't regret it"."4:00PM PST Isabel". Jiggmin's Village. May 8, 2009.
*While mostly accurate, the "JV 4.0" section fails to mention Jiggmin talked about possibly upgrading to vBulletin 4 before he opened the test forum in 2010."vBulletin 4.0". Jiggmin. December 18, 2009.
*"The chris0 Crisis" is usually only ever referred to as either "The Great Rebellion" or more often simply "the rebellion". The entry itself is accurate however.
*"The First Annual Leniency Day" mentions unbanned members were placed in a "Not Banned" group for a month and had to have mods approve their posts. While the thread says "if they could stay out of trouble for a month, then they would be given regular member status.", Jiggmin actually said it was just to weed out spambots."First Annual Leniency Day". Jiggmin's Village. June 20, 2011.
*The section for Conquest includes the common misconception that Jiggmin made the game, when it was actually an add-on for vBulletin 3.8 by Jaxel."Realm Conquest System". vBulletin.org Forum. April 22, 2009.
*Jiggmin.com actually shut down near the end of July 2015, not during August.
==References==
Category:Jiggmin's Village Articles