Ghost Blogs

Ghost Blogs were a phenomenon on Jiggmin's Village discovered near the end of 2009. 
They briefly became popular, though their perceived annoyance quickly turned them into a bannable offense."Official Rules of Jiggmin's Village". January 2011.
==Explanation==
Members had the option when creating blogs to set its publish date, which defaulted to the current time and date. If set to sometime in the future, it won't show up on the blog homepage until then and will be hidden from others.
However due to an oversight in vBulletin, these aren't filtered out of the Top 10 stats area for new blogs on the forum's index and are fixed at the top until published. When clicked by anyone (including moderators), they're shown an "invalid blog" error as if it's not there, hence the term's name.
==Controversy==
The bug was discovered in October or November 2009 reportedly by Danob545."Announcement: Ghost Blogs". Jiggmin's Village. November 4, 2009. Ghost blogs gained attention after NatFan left one up for several days, causing JoMan112 and Artasmas to figure it out and post a few of their own."JV Historical Reference Guide". Acid Forums. August 2015. These stirred controversy, so moderator 1python64 gave Artasmas an infraction and banned JoMan for a month, however the latter was lifted after Artasmas negotiated with python.
Soon after, Artasmas made a thread showing how to make ghost blogs with pictures, doing so because he was bored. This caused a massive uproar when numerous members created them, prompting discussions and some to even start groups dedicated to ghost blogging. 
After a while askRYAN was banned for excessive ghost blogging and it was announced they would become bannable. Nearly everyone voluntarily removed their blogs as a result, leaving only 6 in the end. Since the staff couldn't access them, Jiggmin even created 2 to find a work around; one on his main admin account and another on his alt Jacob.
 
Once it became clear an easy bypass was impossible, he manually deleted the remaining blogs through the database.
Ghost blogs heavily died down afterwards, though their ban gave them a mystic-like quality for the remainder of the forum's life. While easy to perform, the ban proved effective and non-accidental ghost blogs were extremely rare.
==References==
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