My return: an important address to the Buildism community.

[CoderRyne]

In addition, the staff were somehow able to keep him updated. Don't ask me how because I really don't know. When he came back, he had a pretty clear understanding of what went on.

I think it's called reading old threads...

What I have to say is that yes, LOL probably started it as a joke... but when broloxer got involved, things got bad. Broloxer and LOL have had a bad history -- both of them are very argumenative, and when Kieron was still a member of the site... We had some dust-ups between them often, but nothing like this.

Ming-Yan's resignation and Ashely's promotion just fueled the flames, and there's really no good excuse why we weren't able to stop it earlier.

I agree with all of that, however, in your last paragraph, when you say that "Ming-Yan's resignation and Ashely's promotion just fueled the flames", I must say that there is one flaw in that. You didn't mention how the House & Order had blown both of these "problems" completely out of proportion. These were not problems to begin with, and quite frankly, if the House & Order group didn't do what they did with these events, then a lot of what we have seen over the past few days wouldn't have been nearly as severe. Thank you for your input, however.