The Deletion Incident



The Deletion Incident refers to when the Kingdom of Trolls (KOT) user Error used global moderator Cacophony's account to delete all of the threads on KOT in February 2009.

What Started It
Cacophony had been a global moderator on KOT for some time, however in the months preceding the Deletion Incident, she had largely been inactive. However, when she did access the forum, she didn't like what she saw. In her mind, the posters of KOT were becoming too elite. Unpopular posters were harassed and were often banned for things unfairly. In February 2009, Cacophony was stressed from events happening in her life, and decided that she was done posting on KOT, and that someone else could make better use of her account.

Error
Error was a fairly unpopular poster Cacophony knew from her TKPS days. He was one of the posters continuously being banned from KOT, and could put a KOT account to good use.

What Happened
Cacophony gave her KOT account to Error without telling anyone or putting any restrictions on what he could do with it. For days, he posted impersonating her, and no one was the wiser. During this, Cacophony was no longer visiting KOT.

Error soon became bored with posing as someone else, and used the global moderator permissions on Cacophony's account to delete all the threads on KOT. This caused Kotters to become extremely angry with Error and Cacophony. The administrators decided it would be best to not allow either back on the board.

Cacophony also posted a long winded post about why she gave her account to Error, which included calling Kotters "white, Christian elitists." The rest of the post has long since been lost, and none of its other contents can be recalled. The post, however, was more of a front for what was going on in Cacophony's life - while it was true that she believed some of the Kotters to be elitists, she was going through a lot of stress at the time and was lashing out at people that didn't deserve it. Her actions caused strife between her and Error and many of the KOT posters. This strife has largely since been resolved due to the Extinction Incident and the subsequent merging of boards.

The Rollback
Thankfully, at the time IPBfree servers would backup their forums on a fairly frequent basis. The KOT admins contacted IPBfree and requested that their forum be restored to a date preceding the deletion incident. Some threads (namely those between the deletion and the rollback) were lost, but the majority of the threads were able to be restored, and posting went on as normal.