The Hotel SCOTT

The Hotel SCOTT (THS) is a a now defunct online forum. It is the predecessor to Whitearachnia's Lair and The War Room. The Hotel SCOTT may also refer to a crazy hotel owned by SCOTT's character from the role playing game Blackarachnia's Fleet (see: The Hotel SCOTT RPG)

Beginnings
THS began while SCOTT was in Thailand in 2009. Malaiseous, the administrator of Whitearachnia's Lair decided to try out IPBfree, which had many extra features. All of the posters from White's Lair made the move.

Posting on THS
THS was considered to be a general discussion board with the general discussion forum receiving the most activity. However, there were dedicated forums for stories and RPG, which many THS members were involved in. Epic stories were written involving members of the board, some of which became the basis for full blown novels. There was little post moderation on THS - as long as you were not being overly derogatory or mean to anyone, you were pretty much free to say what you pleased. Spamming was frowned upon, but because of THS's small, tight knit userbase, spamming was infrequent.

THS saw a variety of administrators and moderators. Malaiseous was the root admin as he was the creator. SCOTT was also a constant face of the admin team, though he was known to call himself a "useless admin." OOD and zninja also adminned for a time, and Tau was given adminship towards the end of the forum. Milford Cubicle and Echo were two of the global moderators. Doc Sregor was a moderator for some time, but when he deleted Blackarachnia's Fleet, he was demodded. THS also participated in a 10K competition along with KOT.

The Extinction Incident
THS thrived as a forum until July 2010 when the IPBfree servers shutdown. The majority of the members moved to the Forum With No Name. The ones who haven't made the move can be found on The Echo Chamber.

Known members of The Hotel SCOTT
SCOTT

Malaiseous

Metallica1984 (OOD)

Doc Sregor

Hermynator

Tau

Cacophony

Milford Cubicle

Darth Vegeta

Skinny

Asterisk

Echo

Tiny

Crurned

Mumby