The Quackcave Butter Crisis

The Quackcave Butter Crisis is an event that occurred on January 11th 2021, and is arguably the closest that the Duckpond has come to civil war since Camping Enthusiasts.

## Background

This crisis directly stems from the First Presidential Election. The two prominent political parties were at their most combative during this time. Because there were already two conflicting sides, this made it easier for conflict to arise and for each person involved in the incident to choose a side.

Lm1xb sent two messages in #the-quackcave that were completely unrelated to anything. "Butter dog" and "Dog with the butter" were the messages that began this event. Gene responded saying that the aforementioned "Butter Dog" was submerged in butter however, Lm1xb, TrueMasterB, and Bepno immediately began to argue against this as the Butter Dog that Lm1xb referenced was a popular meme video of a dog with butter on its head and was, in fact, not submerged in butter.

Gene continued to argue that the dog would become submerged in butter when it melts, however, the others argued that there was simply not enough butter for this to occur. The argument was brought to a halt when Zigzem mentioned the possibility that the dog not only had butter on its head but could be made of butter entirely, hence the moniker "Butter Dog." Bepno countered this by stating that the dog was clearly a living being and that butter ins not alive. Next Goombario entered the discussion with a history altering revelation.

## The Crisis Continues

Goombario posted a picture of Living Butter Lettuce to prove that there were, in fact, living beings made of butter. This marked a turning point in the crisis. Up until this point the Duckpondians had been fervently combating Gene's statements. However, with Goombario's contribution many people began to believe that living beings could be made of butter except for Bepno. Now Bepno attempted to convince the others that the Living Butter Lettuce that Goombario posted was not actually made of butter however, none of them would agree because the lettuce had "living" and "butter" in the name. Nearly everyone except Bepno would remain convinced of this.

Eventually Bepno would resort to spamming the chat while everyone remain unconvinced that the lettuce was not actually made of butter. Lm1xb argued that they all knew it was lettuce, just that the lettuce was also made of butter because of its name.

Goombario would begin to send images of people dressed in lettuce costumes with messages such as "literally Bepno" however, instead of ignoring the images Bepno began to delete them. In response Goombario sent them repeatedly just to have them deleted by Bepno each time. This forwarded the argument and it advanced to discussing moderator abuse of power. Specifically Lm1xb's abuse of power in muting and kicking members such as TrueMasterB for unprompted reasons. During the crisis Bepno stated his shift in views and decided that he would no longer support Goombario in the upcoming election.

In the Rules chat of the server Feelix added a joke role that stated Bepno and TrueMasterB no longer had rights, however, this got deleted due to Bepno's outcry at this rule. Lm1xb expressed his disappointment in the deletion of a rule as the precedent in the rules chat was for a rule to be removed it needed to be repealed by another rule. In response Feelix added another rule revoking Bepno's rights once again and shortly after Lm1xb made a rule that any rule posted cannot be simply deleted but must be repealed. This angered Bepno greatly.

To quell the outcry Zigzem created a rule that repealed the two previous rules and stated that no new rules could be made until the president had been elected. This helped settle Bepno's anger and slowly the hostilities died down.