The Great Rebellion

The Great Rebellion (a.k.a. The chris0 Crisis or Chaos Emerald) was an event on Jiggmin's Village in 2011 that was the result of weeks of tension building up between the staff and several members.
==Background==
Emerald (also known as B.B. Kitty, Anna-chan and Arella among many others) was well-known on the forum for having been permanently banned in 2009."JV Historical Reference Guide". Acid Forums. August 2015."B.B Kitty's Profile" - Jiggmin's Village (January 2010 archive) It was originally temporary for insulting another member, but was extended after she ban evaded."Odori-Chan's Profile" - Jiggmin's Village (January 2010 archive) Thinking she had nothing to lose, she created a considerable number of alts to continue evading for some time. Eventually she stopped and many on JV requested her unbanning. The mods were firmly against the idea however due to the extent of her evasion.
Much later in early 2011, Emerald was given a second chance. If she proved she meant no harm and only wanted to be a contributing member of the community, she could stay. She was allowed back for a couple months, however was banned after posting another person's full name without their permission. This action was protested by some since her offense was only punishable by warning in the rules."Official Rules of Jiggmin's Village". January 2011. The staff upheld their decision however as Emerald was on a probation period, a very short leash, where any one rule broken would result in a permanent ban. The topic continued to be brought up regularly over the following weeks.
==Rebellion==
The crisis began on June 18th after the staff unstickied and locked a thread where members could make suggestions regarding the site's moderation."Moderator Suggestions". Jiggmin's Village. May 27, 2011. At the time a heated debate concerning Emerald's ban was underway in it between the mods and several members (primarily Rammjet). It was closed with the message that they no longer needed public suggestions and anyone who had anything they wanted to discuss could PM a staff member instead.
Another thread was created shortly after by a user requesting them to reopen it. After they declined, chris0 wrote a rant in his blog on the situation, which was quickly deleted and resulted in him receiving an infraction. Dozens of blogs and threads then popped up by both him and other members about it, each of which were quickly deleted as well.
Feeling oppressed and silenced, some conspired to overthrow the staff and have a full-scale revolution. Chain PMs about such a subject were spread around the community. Many users resented the long standing "no discussing mod actions publicly" rule, which was their basis for removing blogs and threads.
Eventually chris0 was banned for a week, which caused others to request week-long bans themselves to show their support. After roughly a dozen were banned like this, super mod ASilva93 announced requested bans would no longer be offered and anyone who asked for one was retroactively unbanned."Fyi". ASilva93. June 18, 2011.
These actions caused some to believe various staff were corrupt, prompting them to call for their resignation.
The following day, dozens of members flooded the forums with threads containing the phrase "purr cot is an anagram of corrupt" while no mods were online."Hey Mods!". Jiggmin's Village. June 19, 2011.
Later on Silverrida made a long thread explaining to everyone what was happening, why, and how it could be fixed. It was immediately deleted, leading him to repost it several times until he was given a day ban for spamming. Others then reposted it until they were either banned as well or infracted to where they couldn't anymore. While the flooding died down afterwards, tensions remained high."Can't survive without JV anymoar". Jiggmin's Village. June 20, 2011.
==The First Annual Leniency Day==
On June 20th, two days after the rebellion started, Jiggmin announced "The First Annual Leniency Day", though he clarified "I don't actually plan to do this annually, it just sounded cool"."First Annual Leniency Day". Jiggmin's Village. June 20, 2011."Well I guess I'm back". Jiggmin's Village. June 21, 2011.
Everyone who had ever been banned on the forum was placed in a "not banned" category, where they could rejoin the community, albeit their posts had to be approved by moderators for one month to weed out spam bots. This resulted in tensions being much relieved as people celebrated the unbannings of Emerald, walker9, c3Rchno and others.
It's unclear whether the rebellion lead Jiggmin to do this as the staff denied it.
==Aftermath==
Super mod/admin Red Jackdaw announced his retirement the same day."Announcing my retirement.". Jiggmin's Village. June 20, 2011. In a long post, he explained he couldn't balance modding with his personal life anymore and that he lately found it more of a chore than fun. The rebellion was implied to accelerate his decision, and he spent much of the post expressing his thoughts on it.
Moderator Infernoking also quietly left the community the following day, making him the last of the original pre-PR2 staff to retire."View Profile: infernoking" - Jiggmin's Village (September 2011 archive)
"Purr cot is an anagram of corrupt" became a recurring phrase following the incident when members thought the mods were acting corrupt, sometimes to the annoyance of its originators."Purr Cot". Jiggmin's Village. March 31, 2013."What's with the purrcot stuff". Jiggmin's Village. December 26, 2011.
==References==
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