2009 Forum Pruning

The 2009 forum pruning was an event on Jiggmin's Village involving former moderator Forseti (known as iAeg on Platform Racing 2 at the time) that resulted in the complete loss of all posts made on the forum prior to January 26, 2009.
==Background==
Foresti had been an active member of the community since at least early 2008."How did you find Jiggmin.com". Jiggmin's Village. December 23, 2010. He was the third non-mod to receive a Crown from Jiggmin, after b@byG and Stevedx20, before it was available as a Folding@home prize."pr2 screenshot collection". Forseti. May 20, 2020.
Forseti was considered friendly and helpful, leading him to become a moderator on PR2 in November 2008 a few days before he turned 12, making him the youngest staff member at the time."View Profile: Forseti (About Me tab)" - Jiggmin's Village (2011 archive) He also became a forum mod 2 months later."Guide to Staff Promotion & Demotion Dates." - Jiggmin's Village
==Event==
In January 2009, it came to light Forseti had shared his PR2 mod account with other users.
This lead the 3 non-Jiggmin admins (E46M3, Melanie and b@by*G) to tell him they were aware of this in the private mod chat and he would be demodded."corrections for the Historical References Guide". Forseti. May 21, 2020. While he was told he could potentially be remodded later, Forseti was devastated and started crying.
Forseti told his friends on SavsAwesomeClub the news, which included SavGurl101, bud.smoker and fellow mod XPA! among others. Since only Jiggmin could demote accounts on JV, Foresti was still a mod there in the meantime. This lead some in the chat to tell him ways to get back at the super mods and community before Jiggmin could log on and demod him. 
Forseti went along with them, first by banning members they didn't like for petty reasons, but they became frustrated when another mod instantly unbanned them. XPA! suggested he prune the forums since it couldn't be reversed, which would erase every post ever made and make them unrecoverable.
No back-ups of the forum existed, so all roughly 70,000 posts dating back to July 2008 were lost. These included Jiggmin's dev log entries for Neverending Light, PR2, Blossom Server and setting up the Team Jiggmin Folding@home group among others."Jiggmin's Village" (December 2008 archive)
==Aftermath==
Shortly after the forums were pruned, Jiggmin logged on and gave Forseti a permanent ban on JV.
XPA! ended up banning Forseti from PR2. From Forseti's recollection, XPA! was talking in the main chat right after he pruned the forums when he suddenly said "oh shit" and banned him. Forseti took it as XPA! feeling obligated to punish him, though noted the irony.
Forseti regretted his actions within days and created numerous alts on JV to apologize, all of which were quickly banned.
Later on in November 2010, Forseti contacted Jiggmin directly to request an unbanning. Jiggmin replied "well I see no reason to hold a grudge", and created a section on JV called "Dungeon of Despair" (now known as "Ask a Mod") for him and other users to officially appeal their bans.
Forseti was ultimately welcomed back into the community and was an active member for some time, even being temp modded on PR2 occasionally. 
He later lamented though at never being able to fully shake being "that kid who pruned the forums". He partially blamed it on the event being included in the Jiggmin.com Historical Reference Guide, which he felt portrayed the wrong image of him since it lacked his side of the story."JV Historical Reference Guide". Acid Forums. August 2015.
Reflecting on the incident years later, Forseti said:
"[...] I'm all about having fun even if it's at my own expense, which led to me foolishly sharing my mod account; I adapt to others after I understand them, which led to me being a part of the wrong group; and my fatal flaw was the rush of a 12 year old's emotions after being demodded."
Sometime during his ban in 2009-2010, another mod Itaku gave Foresti access to Jiggmin's mod alt on the forum "Jacob" and told him to prune the forums again. Instead Forseti posted "hi" in a thread and replied several times before Jiggmin quietly demodded his alt, which was never remodded afterwards."View Profile: Jacob" - Jiggmin's Village (2012 archive) Itaku was angered by this, and hacked Forseti's MSN account in response.
The event was widely considered the worst disaster on the forum until the UnknownAX disaster a few months later. Jiggmin later cited it as one of the reasons he decided to abandon vBulletin and close JV in 2015."Platform Racing 4 and the Future!". Freegoose. September 9, 2015.
==References==
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Category:Jiggmin's Village Articles
Category:Platform Racing 2 Articles