2018 Thread Purge

The thread purge was a time in the fall of 2018 when the mods unexpectedly deleted large swaths of threads from the SAMB and other forums. Along with old posts, unused forums were also removed.
Before the deletion, the SAMB had over 2,000 pages of threads. After the deletion, there were a little over 600. While the posts on the deleted pages were, for the most part, inactive, they contained history of the SAMB and of friends and events long gone. Some pages were preserved on Wayback Machine (archived pages can be found here), but most of them were lost. Other forums suffered similar losses.
MBers were understandably upset and asked for an explanation from the mods. The mods never offered an offical explanation, even when they completely deleted the IRMB. The IRMB had remained relatively inactive since the IR/SA Randomness War, but the removal was still a blow. Only the SAMB, WoFMB, T39CMB, and one or two others made it through the deletion.
The cause of the purge were almost certainly storage related, but MBers were still hurt that the mods would remove so much without warning. While nobody knew it at the time, the deletion was likely one of the first steps towards the entire SAMB's deletion and subsequent replacement less than a year later.
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