Super Smash Flash 2 Expansion Forums

The Super Smash Flash 2 Expansion Forums were special discussion forums for the creation and acceptance of unofficial expansion characters in Super Smash Flash 2. They were primarily run by developers of the game and were completely independent from the McLeodGaming Forums.
Expansion characters would be judged and either accepted or denied by members known as the Expansion Acceptance Team, known as the EAT for short. To submit an expansion character, one first had to have five animations done, and their ideas or progress had to follow special rules to prevent moveset abuse. Once approved by an Expansion Acceptation Team member, expansion characters would then have to be programmed in Flash by a developer in order to later be playable in SSF2. They could also be denied if a user broke the rules or created a character that was planned for SSF2, in which case they would be deleted and sent to a "Trash Can" forum.
There have been a total of four iterations of the Expansion Forums (not counting the SSF2 Designer's League Community), and all of them have been closed for various factors, such as the forums being rarely updated, many of its users acting disrespectful, and incomplete projects. The Expansion Forums would remain an affiliate of McLeodGaming until September 2, 2012, when it was announced that McLeodGaming would disaffiliate with the website due to it not being run by McLeodGaming in any way.Disaffiliation With Expansion Forums - McLeodGaming Accessed on October 7, 2024.
== History ==
The first Expansion Forums were opened in 2008, as Gregory McLeod wanted a separate forums website for expansion characters to differentiate from the McLeodGaming Forums. Tredog777 (also known as Tredog), as well as SSF2 developer Suliboy and Expansion Veteran ShadowKirby (also known as SK), managed the website. The forums soon adopted a quality clearance for expansion characters from a team of members known as the Expansion Acception Team, a setup that would be used in all iterations of the Expansion Forums to date.
Due to downtime that the Expansion Forums would experience during its initial few months, developer ItsameSMB opened his own forums called the SSF2 Designer's League Community. These forums acted as a temporary replacement for the Expansion Forums, though it remained relatively inactive. There is some debate as to whether this site counts as an official iteration of the Expansion Forums, as it bears a different title and was created solely as a substitute until Tredog would regain control of his current site shortly after.
After about a year of operation, the administration team decided that it was fed up with the recent influx in incompetent members, as well as the then-recent absence of Tredog. As a result, they created a new forums website exclusively for "elite" members. Expansion Forums members who found out about this thought it best to also create a new forums website for regular members as well, and on October 20, 2009, an official notice was sent out that members would be moving to new forums. Those who did not make the cut for the elite forums were directed to a new forums website managed by Expansion Veteran SC, and the elite members were given a secret link to the Uncut Expansion Forums, managed by Suliboy.
This system of two separate forums websites lasted until SC encountered difficulties with his website host, leaving his forums down indefinitely and causing the Uncut Expansion Forums to become available for all members. Much like with the original iteration, the Uncut Expansion Forums would eventually become overrun with unruly members. Suliboy tried to tighten the administration in order to alleviate the issue, but the members responded with anger and lost trust in the forums altogether. Seeing that this problem was only going to escalate, the SSF2 developers decided to create another forums website run only by developers in order to keep the members under control. The new website, titled the SSF2 Official Expansion Forums, was opened on July 2, 2010 by developer Ramsey Kaid and administrated by Suliboy. To date, this is the most recent iteration of the Expansion Forums to open.
Although the website had many competent members and was seemingly doing well, McLeodGaming would eventually disaffiliate with the website September 2, 2012. This was primarily due to the fact that it was not being run by members of the development team, as well as the fact that there were no standards in place for what kinds of sprites would be approved for release. Despite stating that this was not a bad decision, many members of the Expansion Forums perceived this statement as abandonment. As a result, various members would collaborate through the forums on developing an original game named Astrocops, but this project went nowhere and the forums were eventually closed altogether.
== List of current staff ==
The following list pertains to staff of the SSF2 Official Expansion Forums, the fourth and final iteration of the Expansion Forums, prior to its closure and does not encompass previous iterations.
=== Administrators ===
*<Na>Suliboy
*Steven
*Zero Insanity
=== Basic Moderators ===
*AEM
*Friesnchip
*Kiki
*SC
*ShadowHunter
=== Expansion Acceptation Team ===
*AEM
*Chaosvii7
*ElementalCrisis
*Friesnchip
*Kiddragon
*Kiki
*Knightmare
*Mari Futanari
*Mr. Γ
*<Na>Suliboy
*Reix
*ShadowHunter
*Sharu
*sonicstormer38
*StayPuft
*Steven
*Stump Lark
*Torndragon
*Touching Everything
*Zero Insanity
*Zilch (Hayley)
=== Retired administrators ===
*Dark Lord
*Geno
== References ==
== External links ==
*SSF2 Official Expansion Forums
*SSF2 Expansion Forums - Uncut
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