One Last Purge

*"Delta Shell, the one last member I'd expect not to be able to quote me..."*

The ability to destroy a forum is insignificant to the power of friendship

### Result

Entirety of the OBD migrates from NF, lots of bans (Trinity, Fang, ???) to posters there, in the Alley, some even in the Arcade and Cafe sections, some Staff demotions (Atlantic Storm, Kenneth, Masterblack,etc..) while Mbxx loses his shit even more than usual, Shroomsday censored

The One Last Purge was a historic Fanverse Forums event where Mbxx implemented widespread bans and censorship among the general populace and even the Forum staff. It was due to the creation of One Last Forum which was, in turn, due to heavy handed deletion from Mbxx himself of many archived sub-sections and threads or posts in them with his data-scrubbing bot drones. The most substantive deletion being the entire Bathhouse section as the starting point but also nuking and hard-deleting the entire archived Blender, much of the Chatterbox and its earlier derivations, and several other historic threads and posts by the literal hundreds of thousands. As a certain ex-admin would later reveal, many threads even going as far back as 2006 and 2007 were entirely wiped out and no longer recoverable.

**Data Protection**

As part of Mbxx's commitment to Data Protection law, he openly made it apparent he had access to private messages: there is specifically an admin only add-on for XenForo that enables admins and super/site administrators the ability to 'peek' aka spy into the private messages of regular users. This was utilized in ensuring anyone spreading any knowledge of One Last Forum would be banned immediately via direct or indirect links and messages about its existence. Concerns around whether this actually breached at least one principle of data protection were disregarded as inconvenient.

However according to a poster who does have a legal degree in data laws in the EU, and especially German net laws, what Mbxx did could be considered data breach violation and privacy law violation, specifically GDPR.

**Causalities**

In total, several major sub-sections and areas of the site were effected by the Happening which will be listed alphabetically here:

***Arcade***: Nep Nep and several others were first shadow-banned due to the Nep Nep spending a mass PM to dozens of posters advertising and linking One Last Forum's url and existence. This would trigger a reaction in Mbxx to block both its domain and URL from being directly typed on Fanverse, strong reaction much? At least off the top there was Nep Nep and Son Goku.

***Alley***: Notable users effected by this included Atlantic Storm, Fang, Garcher, Gin, Krory, Sequester (I think?), Oddjutsu, Shroomsday, Trinity, etc...Also insured a short while later that the Archives would be permanently removed despite the section being invisible to Guests for "data protection" purposes. Shrike was not happy as this was the worst way one could begin a section modship and several regulars getting axed by the dark Overlord. Poor guy.

***Cafe***: Mbxx in a continuing attempt to damage control, deflect attention from himself, and justify his actions ended up wading into a literal shit-storm of complaints and dissatisfied Cafe regulars in the section convo thread. Not understanding the purpose of a convo thread made the situation even worse as he began section banning several posters: Captain Autismo, EagleGSU, Makeoutparadise, Natty, Reiatsuflow, Rohan, ShinAkuma, and several others as well as demodding + banning Island and Nemesis because they became annoyed and angered when he claimed the convo thread was "off-topic" and "spam" to the Cafe and its rules. Many ended up seeking temporary shelter in the Alley.

***Mafia***: At least a couple notable members were banned such as Kingslayer and Ultra. There were probably a couple of others besides these two though.

***Outskirts Battledome + Dragonball sections***: Fang was treated as one of the 'chief architects' of the revolt and birth of One Last Forums along side Nep Nep, Ral, and Trinity due to a thread concerning Mbxx and his AI scripted-bot mass deleting hundreds of thousands of threads and even more posts in the OBD's archives which caused a great deal of headaches and major problems for the OBD. Especially given its ties and links to the OBD's Wikia which drew heavily in advertising the site, the section, and brought much needed net traffic to make Overlord Kun happy his bills were getting paid. The thread in question with Fang questioning the status of the OBD and the loss of years of archived information, scans, respect threads, and debates of legendary proportions was echoed by many regulars, which with a PM sent to another user explaining what was going on, brought down the ban hammer on even Fang's head.

Masterblack was demodded and remodded repeatedly when arguing and calling out Mbxx, MusubiKazesaru had his perms and privileges altered multiple times while Rinoa had to get involved to the point that even months later, MB would resign his modship and Musubi still does not have his full section mod powers. ChaosTheory123 was put on moderator-approval only posting for some time until Musubi and Masterblack were able to reverse this insane punishment for him dressing down Mbxx in the OBD convo thread with Rinoa's aid.

OBD/DB regulars banned or effected: Blade, B Rabbit, Chaostheory123, CrossTheHorizon, El Hit, Fang, Gwyn, Kurou, Lina Shields/Shieldbounce, Lurko, MrPopo, NostalgiaFan, Papa Nier, Pilaf, Rom, Sigismund, shade0180, The Immortal Watchdog, and many more.

***The Staff***

Moderators/Staff were also deeply effected by this. In total though, it is hard to say but at its height with sympathizing with the site regulars and normal users, the damage went well into the HR and behind the scenes: Atlantic Storm, Dragon D. Luffy, Island, Kenneth, Kinjin, Lew(d), Masterblack06, MusubiKazesaru, Nemesis, Santi (not sure), and a few others.

Atlantic Storm was demodded and banned, Kenneth was demodded and section banned from the Cafe, Masterblack was demodded, Musubi had most of his mod powers removed or on admin approval, both Island and Nemesis were demodded and perm-banned for arguing with Mbxx. The damage ran the rivers of NF, sorry, FV, red with internet blood.

**Forum Staff Statement**

With Island and Nemesis being banned for their alleged part in the migration, the Forum staff provided a written statement on the matter:

"We the Forum Staff do not condone the actions of this Forum Owner and as a consequence will continue to moderate his Forum without remuneration until these concerns are addressed."

**Arguments For and Against**

Prolific journalist Shroomsday opened a thread in Perspectives entitled Was Mbxx Right? where he listed points for both perspectives. Respecting the power of the press, Mbxx answered these queries. The debate continued in earnest until Island returned from his ban, posed for a photo with Mbxx shaking hands and closed the thread.

**One Last Censorship**

To avoid causing any additional moderation effort in censoring posts, Mbxx took the decision to automatically moderate posts containing 'One Last' in the title. This as well included violating user privacy and exploiting an add-on expansion on Xenforo that allowed a Site-Admin/Super Admin to spy on users' private messages to search for any string or phrase that included "One Last" in the text, leading to further mass ban-waves in the Arcade, Cafe, The Alley, Dragon Ball, One Piece, and OBD sections. As it became a catastrophic oversight it became more apparent that a random member had realised this to be the case and began to sow confusion with increasingly blatant references. Shrike cursed the random member but acknowledged it had worked in reversing the policy due it them being such a pain in ass.

**Conclusion**

All in all the damage was catastrophic and widespread in total. Some of the most active sections, members, and staff, had the collective wind knocked out of their sails. For some posters like Sassy this was quite possibly the final straw and within a few weeks of many regulars from the Alley being banned or restricted, was enough for her to retire from ~~NF~~ Fanverse for good. A rough tally and the follow-up afterwards would show at least 100 regulars and semi-regulars from the OBD alone leaving Fanverse for good between the bans and restrictions, on top of the changed rules to the section due to Mbxx's massive "fear" of data protection laws in the EU and apparently Toei and Google itself stalking him for any mistakes.

Total users banned or restricted off the top of memory was **at least** 40 - 50 posters varying from regulars, moderators, and even administrators or ex-administrators. The likelihood this number exceeds 100 is very high, but it was one of the most large-scale if not THE largest scale mass ban-wave in the site's entire history.

A bitter black letter day in NF's history indeed.