Anarchy communities

Anarchy communities, also called ownerless communities, are communities that have no owner or moderators, which are usually made via bugs or vulnerabilities. Anarchy communities are also sometimes zero-member communities, but users joining them would still keep them as anarchy communities. The term "anarchy community" was coined by cheesewhisk3rs,https://darflen.com/posts/5dcbab959f1adb82b69ce9f9https://darflen.com/posts/39907c21323964f5289925ff but it is unknown who first invented "ownerless community". There are currently 84 recorded non-deleted anarchy communities, but of these there are only eight known zero-member communities, which are , , , , , , , and . All known zero-member communities are set to invite only. There is no known joinable 0-member community, due to movements to join all of them as a protest against anarchy communities.
== Subsets ==
=== Dual state ===
Dual state is a subset of anarchy communities where there is a theoretical owner, but the owner is in two states (owner and member), and Darflen interprets this as a moderator state, since it's the midpoint of both. This means that the community can be left by the owner and turned into a full anarchy community. This is the only known way to create an anarchy community that still works as of ,Technically, an incorrectly deleted user could create an anarchy community, but Paradock is more careful these days however there are much less dual state communities (estimated 3) than anarchy communities (84), so the creation is limited. When in dual state, the user appears twice in the community members page. Some examples of dual state communities are and .
The way these were created was by Paradock adding a user to a community as the owner, when the user was already there as a member. This was because all moderation to Darflen was done manually. This made it so that the users were both as members and owners.
=== 0-member community ===
A 0-member community (sometimes called "zero-member" or "memberless"The issue with the term "memberless" is that it doesn't necessarily mean that the community has no owner, so it is more confusing.) is an anarchy community which additionally has no members in it. These communities are considerably less common, about the same rarity as dual state communities. The main reason why these are scarce is because of Darkpet, barney86, and others. They mass joined anarchy communities (and in the case of Darkpet, communities in general) making the only known 0-member communities unjoinable ones, in which there are 3 known.
==History==
Throughout the history of Darflen, there have been many bugs/glitches that have occurred. Some of these have been used to create ownerless communities. 
===Accidental invention ===
The very first anarchy communities were made by accident. These happened when a bug caused Btdim1 and cheesewhisk3rs to be kicked out of all their communities instead of only 1 which was what whoever kicked them intended. This meant they both lost ownership of their communities. Most anarchy communities created this way have been given back (since they weren't supposed to be lost in the first place). The only known exception is , created by cheesewhisk3rs.
====Dual state creation====
The side effect of regaining ownership of some of these communities was dual state. Paradock did all moderation manually, so he manually added the users back as owners or members via the database. However, in between the time of having asked Paradock to be readded to all communities, Paradock fixing the bug, and him actually adding the users back, enough time had passed for the 2 users to rejoin communities on their own. In communities where they were simply members, this changed nothing. But where they were owners, the community would have the accounts listed in twice: once as a member (which happened first; the users joining) and once as the owner (because of Paradock adding as owner). The two would clash, and Darflen would consider this to act the same as a moderator state, making it possible for the "owner" to leave dual state communities - this is currently one of the only known ways to create an anarchy community, along with not fully deleted users.
=== 2 tab alt leave ===
cheesewhisk3rs originally discovered this first exploit for anarchy communities, with a bug later called the "2 tab alt leave." This worked by creating the community (or using a current one), logging out and back in on an alt, joining the community on the alt, opening a new tab, logging out and back into the owner account, and then going back to the first tab and clicking the leave button.https://darflen.com/posts/0fb981e817cc7c531ca40451 The first community made this way was ; this was the first intentional anarchy community. The exploit was also used by DaGreenBoi, Btdim1, and Marimo before being patched, and this was the end of anarchy communities for a long time.
===Self-kick===
After cheesewhisk3rs' discovery of anarchy communities, PkmnQ found an alternate method of creating an anarchy community. After creating a community, he simply kicked himself out of it. This was how and were created. This method was left unknown for a significant amount of time due to the assumption that this was already known, only being documented after the fact. Self-kicking was likely patched at the same time as the other early methods.
===Self-demote===
PkmnQ also discovered this method shortly after self-kicking, and used it to create . Instead of kicking, he simply demoted himself to any permission below owner (in the case of , he chose Moderator). Similarly to self-kicking, this method was also left unknown until much later, and was probably patched at the same time.
===Deleted user glitch===
The first instance of an anarchy communiy being made via deletion of the owner account is , made by a ban evasion alt of Natan that was deleted by Paradock. However, the community was not deleted and remains to this day. Months later, qxva was testing with his alts and rediscovered that deleted users are removed from communities. He made a few anarchy communities this way, but a lot were deleted alongside the users by Paradock, as they count as user data that should be deleted alongside the user. This method still works, but only if the deleted user's data isn't fully deleted. Paradock avoids letting these happen. 
The best way to know if a community was created this way is to check the members count. The deleted account is a ghost account, meaning it appears in the counter but not in the members list.https://darflen.com/posts/9249d87318e1e3e8b9ada20c 
=== Conjoining ===
Conjoining, a bug discovered by MrMeems, involved linking two (or more) accounts together. Even after being patched, the bug had side effects on accounts which had been conjoined, including allowing a user to kick themselves out of their own community, creating an anarchy community. This bug was fixed by Paradock after MrMeems let him access his account, and the side effects being gone means it is no longer possible to make an anarchy community this way. This is the main exploit that made anarchy communities, yielding 17. 13 were made by MrMeems and 4 by JamieD132. 
===== Bug 33 =====
JamieD132 found 2 new ways to make anarchy communities with the API, as well as one which could be made without the API. The first way he discovered was conjoined accounts having the ability to kick themselves out from their own communities. This is known as Bug 33 and MrMeems massively abused this to create over 30 communities. This was not fixed for a long time. One week after it was fixed, JamieD132 found that it was still possible to do this using the API, but eventually it got patched as well.
===API member glitch===
After both were fixed, JamieD132 discovered a new way using the API, where a previously conjoined account can set themselves as a member rather than a moderator and then leave the community, which was again, eventually fixed.
=== 2 tab moderator kicking===
Afterwards, JamieD132 discovered that if two moderators kick each other at the same time, then it is also possible to make an anarchy community.https://darflen.com/posts/8269a8ccc5190f12acb00f10 This method was patched on . 
Jamie made an older community, , into an anarchy community.
=== Moderator kicking owner ===
As of , the last method was a moderator kicking the original owner and leaving, since they didn't take ownership. This is now patched. This method was discovered by qxva. He made and , his alt's old communities, into anarchy communities.
== List of anarchy communities ==
Community	Creation timestamp (ms)	Creator	Member count	Visibility
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==Controversy==
The main controversy regarding anarchy communities is that they have no way of moderating members, as there are no users with the power to do so, which has resulted in arguments where one side supports letting anyone join the communities (as there are no users to enforce banning, it isn't actually against any rule) while others want mass joiners banned (as it can be considered spam and sometimes the owners don't want people to join). Certain proposed solutions have been to remove anarchy communities entirelh or to give ownership of them to the first user to join, but this has been met with backlash as anarchy communities are a part of Darflen history.
=== Anti-anarchy community movements ===
There have been movements, mostly engineered by Barney86 and Darkpet, to try to stop anarchy communities. These include listing and joining all possible anarchy communities, insulting anarchy community supporters and trying to convince Paradock to give the ownership of the communities to the first user to join.
=== Resolution ===
A few months after the controversy had calmed down, on , Paradock concluded the drama by banning Darkpet from and changing visibility to invite only in . This is the first time this has been done. On , Paradock changed and (original communities from the first exploit) to invite only, as well as banning all current members. Additionally, both had the descriptions changed to "Deleted" on request from cheesewhisk3rs, the creator.
On , qxva requested that his communities , and were changed to invite only and all members banned. Paradock agreed.
== Trivia ==
* The term "anarchy community" does not come from anarchy communities not having rules (all do, as they have the abide by the Terms of Service). Instead, it comes from there being no owner/moderators to enforce them.https://darflen.com/posts/90318d5c1ee96f9eda1ce542#906e93eb24743cc747046677
== References and notes ==