IR/SA Randomness War

Warning: This page contains a suicide mention. Reader discretion is advised.
The IR/SA Randomness War was a series of conflicts between the Infinity Ring Message Board and the Spirit Animals Message Board. The main cause of the war was the idea of individual forum policy.
A short time before the conflict, "fluffeh" had recently taken off in the SAMB, and SAMBers were eager to spread it to other forums. They would create Fluffeh Schools, similar to the original Fluffeh School on the SAMB, to teach others the way of Fluffeh.
However, when they reached the IRMB, they were politely rejected. A well-liked MBer, Emerald, had committed suicide several months earlier, and the IRMBers had just found out about it from her brother, Daniel, who had posted Emerald's suicide note (which involved a portion about the IRMB) and told the IRMBers how much they had meant to his sister. The IRMB then decided to hold a funeral for their friend, silencing all posts on the forum that weren't about Emerald.
Ignoring the IRMBers' request for them to come back later, the SAMBers continued to post about fluffeh and other random things on the forum. In return, the IRMBers decided to make a list of the "unofficial rules" of the IRMB, figuring that maybe the newcomers just didn't understand how the IRMB worked. The rules were about courtesy to the IRMB and each other in order to keep the IRMB a quiet and serene place. 
Unfortunately, the rules actually had the opposite effect that the IRMBers were hoping for. SAMBers stated that their MB didn't have lists of rules to follow, and that they shouldn't have to obey any rule that wasn't explicitly written by Scholastic. They posted their frustration on both MBs, and more SAMBers began to arrive at the IRMB. As the IRMBers dealt with their grief and watched their quiet utopia crumble around them, their requests for the SAMBers to leave became more forceful. This lead to several prominent IRMBers being permanently banned for fighting, and there were those who even left in protest of the bans and the conflict. When the war finally ended, the IRMB was left in shambles. The majority of their members were gone, be it by their own choice or by bans.  
Over on the SAMB, there was a divide over how the forum should feel about the war. Many SAMBers did not believe they had been in the wrong during the IR/SA War, but a group felt that they had. Most of this group hadn't been directly involved in the IR/SA War, but they sympathized with the IRMB and disapproved of their fellow MBers' behavior. This rift paved the way for the SAMB's next conflict, the Samurai Gang incident.  
Any efforts to colonize or spread SAMB ideals in the future were quickly stopped by oldies who had been through the Randomness War. Several attempts to restore the IRMB were made over the years, but they were never able to bring the IRMB's former glory back. Eventually, the IRMB was deleted with no reason given along with several other inactive forums.
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