Ville

## Posnville

Server icon of Posnville (animated version by ARm)

Great Seal of Posnville

Staff Team of Posnville

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**Posnville**, shortened to **Ville** and previously known as **Mapperville**, **Ville²** and **Ville³**, is a Mapping-focused Discord community server based around Dutch Mapper Poisonous Mapping. It opened on 2 July, 2022, archived on 31 July, 2023, and reopened on 25 November, 2023.

## History

Ville's history is long and extensive, due to the amount of relevant or iconic conversations the server had since its original opening in 2022. The following table summarizes the mentioned periods in the server's history.

### Posnville

On 27 November, user DarkEntity got into a discussion with Pomy regarding whether a sexual assaulter should be forgiven or not, with Dark arguing that they shouldn't "necessarily run free, they should face punishment", but raises a question whether they should be forgiven, as, in their mind, it depends on the personality of the individual. Pomy, who is traumatized due to a personal experience in the past, leaves the server, with Ilisium, cplx, Viewless, Lakera and many others shocked at what had happened. Jeff soon follows Pomy and leaves. DarkEntity and his alternate account Interesting are soon banned.

In private messages, Poisonous and cplx discuss whether they should keep Posnville going, both concluding that it would be best if the server archived after that event. However, Poisonous decides not to and, on the 28th, he kicks over 150 accounts from the server, an event referred to as the Great Purge, announcing that more could be kicked or banned if deemed to be a risk to the server. Slaya also gets promoted to City Councilor that day.

### Archived Ville

Ville remained archived from 31 July to 25 November.

A few hours after the full archive, Ilisium sent her final goodbye message to Ville³ in Announcements, getting a reply from Letter E asking why she had removed "Jeff FM", how General Café became known during the archiving process. The next day, 1st of August, Prussian discovered an exploit to overrun the archive and keep sending messages via threads, which was also used by Ravioli before being patched by Saby the next day.

Still on the 1st, a member called alterveli started a short dialogue with Letter E about them mysteriously being able to send messages in the Polling Station, with E jokingly stating "maybe Khak 2 will happen". Shortly after, Saby created a poll asking which "Ville splinter server" would die first, those servers being *Alexandria Safe Zone*, *Futureland*, *Future Mapping Laboratory* and The Paracosmic Garden. With over 65% of votes, people correctly guessed *Futureland* would die first. A message sent on 19 October by Letter E would reveal that, in fact, all four servers died, claiming that *The Mapping Saloon* reigns supreme.

On the 4th of August, Ilisium jokingly sent a message saying "I feel like being chaotic so if this gets to 30 stars I'll unarchive General Café on 2 July, 2024, for a Ville reunion only for that one day". Six hours later, the message had received 36 stars and Ilisium raised the count to 45. On the 8th, it had reached 47 and Ilisium once again raised it to 50. As of November 2023, the message stands at 50 stars. On 4 and 10 of August, Poisonous would return to send two GIFs of American rapper Kendrick Lamar, with Ilisium sending one GIF of South Korean rapper Chaeyoung.

On the 13th, a short discussion began between two staff members in Announcements after Viewless sent a message containing the document that exposed former owner Denia as being a groomer. The other staff argued that no new announcements should be made in the server so as to keep it dead. The messages relating to the event, except for the document, were deleted some hours later. Denia would also get banned around midday UTC.

The next day, Poisonous quietly changed the server's name back to Posnville in an effort to, according to Ilisium, erase Denia's past with the server. Then, the day following that, Letter E sent two messages saying "good morning" and "good night" in Announcements. On the 13 November, E let user TheRah send an ironic image depicting infamous troublemaker Protonian and Denia engaging in a conversation that soon turns into an "ERP", later, after receiving Saby's approval, calls Poisonous the "OG supreme leader of Ville".

On 20 November, Poisonous suddenly returns with his alternate account, gets ownership back and conducts what cplx called the Great Purge 2, kicking approximately 100 users from Posnville. After that, he sends a message in Announcements that says "soon". Saby also left the server in the meanwhile. Poisonous also updated the rules channel and renamed it to Town Hall, replaced the Clothing Store with Reaction Mall and archived a number of channels, including the whole Mapping University (except for Mapping Class), Municipalities, old YouTube update channels owned by the moderators, the Reservoir Report's channel, the MT25 channels and others.

Five days later, on the 25th, Poisonous reopened Posnville.

### Relaunch

The server's first day post-reopening was a grand success, gathering 3,689 messages in total, with the first public message being a meme clip sent by Axio in General Pub, a rebranding of the General Café. Just an hour and a half after reopening, Poisonous announces plans to grow the moderation team, the City Council, via a "Mod Vote" by staff. Bob and Olympus were promoted to City Councilors two days later.

On the 29th, amid a very confusing conversation about the group chat Animegrad, Viewless banned user Tetno after, having left the server minutes before, he got locked out of Posnville and came back with an account with the flag of Germany as his profile picture. Soon after, Axio banned user Danny for sending a message stating "legal obligation to post male pregnancy nagito fanart", referencing the Danganronpa character Nagito Komaeda. Poisonous intervened and Viewless revealed that he was, in fact, drunk that whole time. Despite getting unbanned some minutes prior, Tetno hadn't joined back as he got timed out by Viewless. Some minutes later, he also banned user Tennessine. Poisonous once again intervened and asked Viewless to chill, who justified his action by saying he was "just having fun". Slaya soon got in chat and had a short discussion with Viewless before the conversation moved on.

On the 3rd of December, Poisonous started the server's first contest after the relaunch, being a music contest to choose a song to become Posnville's anthem, later calling it the Posnville Aux Wars. Submissions closed the next day and voting started on the 5th.

## Administration

### Mayors

Throughout its history, Ville was mostly owned by Poisonous Mapping, however other members would rise to the rank as The Midnight Lotus and the Emporium were integrated. Poisonous decided to step down in early June 2023, which prompted Axio's ascension.

**Mayors of Ville (before reopening)**
 Denia | 2 December, 2022
 Ilisian | 2 March, 2023
 Axio

Denia was banned from the server in mid-August following her exposing as a groomer. Poisonous became sole Mayor again on 20 November.

### Deputy Mayors

On 26 September, 2022, the role of Deputy Mayor came to be as Poisonous needed a temporary replacement while he was away due to a health issue. Initially, Ortho was picked to fill that role, but elections were put in place in November, happening on the 12th of every month (with the exception of January and February, when it happened on the 15th). They ended with the creation of Ville³, subsequently getting abolished on 2 March, 2023.

All elections were disputed between members of the City Council.

**Deputy Mayor election results**
 January
 February

With elections abolished, three members would rise to become Deputy Mayors: cplx, Klon and Seren. As cplx resigned from staff in early June and Slaya got promoted, the list until the archiving would be: Klon, Seren and Slaya.

By the time the server reopened, only Axio and Ilisian were appointed Deputy Mayors.

### City Council

The server's staff team received the label of City Council, to fit the community's city theme. Various people served as staff throughout Ville's history, and some even rose to the position of Deputy Mayor when elections occurred.

The initial composition of City Council when the server got launched was: Axio, Cody, cplx, élo, Galaxy, Reisch, Wito and yaboikon. As of the archive, it was composed of: Danny, E, Fiery, Klon, Seren, Slaya, Wito and yaboikon.

When Poisonous reopened the server, only Letter E and Viewless were appointed City Councillors. Bob and Olympus were admitted into the team two days later.

## References

1. ↑ Check the animated logo here.
2. ↑ "denia". 13 August 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2023.