The Firefly Incident

The Firefly Incident (also known as the Firefly-FireFly Incident) was a nickname conflict that occurred in late July 2018. It involved an SAMBer named  Firefly and a new user called HidingLibrary.
HidingLibrary joined the SAMB and began calling themselves Firefly. As there was a current user with that nickname, SAMBers asked HidingLibrary to change their name, recalling previous ugly conflicts over shared nicknames. HidingLibrary responded by claiming that Firefly was being mean. They created threads condemning Firefly and insisting the name should be theirs. SAMBers quickly stepped in, pointing to the nickname rules they'd had in place since the beginning, yet again asking HidingLibrary to change their nickname. Various solutions to the incident were given, and eventually Firefly changed her nickname to Dragonfly.
HidingLibrary then changed their nickname to Dragonfly. This confirmed that the account was almost certainly a troll, not a new MBer who made a mistake. HidingLibrary changed their signature to imitate the new Dragonfly's and copied her posting style in a thread. The incident may have escalated, but the troll was widely ignored. The account went inactive soon after, likely due to the lack of reaction.
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