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I miss Werbert .


I think the whole cat thread fad happened around the same time did it not? Lead by Starbuline, Sopho and AHayes. As I recall Cowkitty and Schmoo (AHayes' and Star's cat respectively) started dating

Wolves are my favorite animal! I love how smart and beautiful they are. (sorry to get so off topic)

"WillFreund1"'s massacre.
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/01/local/me-shooting1

I don't remember any specific event...
Well maybe a couple involving the loss of certain members.

Otherwise I tend to recall a lot of people several people who don't post here anymore.

Wow.
That's depressing about the killing.
And more committed suicide? I wish I could have helped them.

Yes. Sopho and Star started spamming everything in site with cats. They then started their own aspie site after one or both of them (I can't remember) got banned. Then when Starbuline died things went a little wonky.

the days when Werbert was always here, and was WP's most beloved member....

There was another person who I know said to post here often and I can't remember her username, but her name was Kim. I think she was friends with AHayes.

I feel like those were WP's Good old days.

What happened to star?

And what made Werbert WP's most beloved?

I feel lame cause I missed out on so much.

Then there was a banning season and I got banned and was aloud to come back because I didn't do anything banworthy, did I? It was annoying that it just happened without any explaination and then I got into a drama with the moderators about it and they all thought it was a glitch, but there CAN'T be a ban glitch, it's just simply not possible.

The others I just say in PM.

Don't worry about it, it seems like this place turns over about once every two years or so, shedding mods and members and spawning spin-off sites and what not. Things that seem important at the time lose their impact after a while, most of the people I cut my teeth here arguing with have been banned or stopped posting, I'm not sure which. Over all though, I think WP's history is interesting, but not all that important for day to day use of the site.

I still wonder for star and werbert.
And that's depressing. I wish we could all be a happy family forever! D:

Werbert made funny posts such as there was a thread titled "Post where you live" something like that and we were supposed to post pictures of our house or apartment but instead he posted the White House.

And I remember one of his other posts where he said "I would spam this forum 500 times and I would spam it 500 more" or was the word troll? I don't remember. It was in one of my threads.

I miss Smelena (however you spell it) and other people like enlu esla or whatever.

Oh yes I remember the cat threads and then I started with my Benny & Joon threads.

Oh and we aren't allowed to mention that WP shooter. I found out it falls under the rules of provoking people and that isn't allowed here. Also the fact he is banned and we aren't allowed to discuss banned members. I found that all out afterwards.

I remember another WP member here who killed himself, his name was kingcrimson or whatever.

Then I remember another WP member who died from some sickness. He had the jetson avatar. I think he was one of the mods.

I remember when Cockneyrebel used to post her threads about it's been (insert number here) since she has last talked about routemasters. And another time when someone posted "Cockneyrebel, do not look at this" and I clicked on the thread and it was a picture of a routemaster bus that was distroyed.

I am horrible with names.

I cannot recall, offhand, what happened to Werbert, but Starbuline, after starting zOMG Aspies, also came around, along with Sopho, to troll this place. That being said, Starbuline, when I confronted her about the nth sockpuppet that she had made, at least understood that I was just doing my job. My reaction to her taking her own life was shock, regardless of the trouble she had caused.

Just keep in mind, though, discussing banned members is against the rules. Please be aware of this.

I think I found the champion of mustard you all were talking about.

Ok, sorry.
WP makes me sad for that. It's a happy place, and then a bunch of people are suicidal.

The War of the Condiments started not long after I joined WP, about four years ago. At that time, WrongPlanet was a very appropriate place with a lot of interesting people, like Werbert, TheMachine1, Hyper_Alien, and others that are still here. Things were never boring then, and everyone was happy. Then, one day, not long after I joined, TM1 and I received the Holy Word of Garlic and found a Church dedicated to spreading awareness and love of the most holy and appropriate of all plants.

Werbert, seeing our success, grew jealous and founded his own false church based on the worship of mustard. Pope Werbert immediately declared war against the peace loving followers of Garlic and began amassing cultists and resources with which he hoped to destroy us. But this new Church of Mustard was not the only threat facing the Garlican people. There were many more cults being brought into existence by WP members, many of which joined in Werbert's assault against civility and enlightenment. The odds were against us, but through the grace of Garlic—and through the military efforts of Lorde Greyhelium and myself—we quickly and easily defeated and/or assimilated those who opposed us.

By the time the real fighting started, there were only four combatants: the Church of Garlic, the Church of Mustard, the Wasabi Cultists, and the BBQ Doomsday Cult, which was led by Quatermass. During the battle, I was able to destroy Quatermass' unholy death machine and force the surrender of the Wasabi leader. And that's when the most unexpected thing happened: Werbert suddenly surrendered before becoming involved in the fight, and eventually converted to Garlicism as the Archbishop of the newly formed Sect of Chocolate.

After the War of the Condiments, the Garlican Empire underwent a period of cultural growth as we gained new members, and new sects and allies. Eventually, though, the peace was broken. A newcomer to WrongPlanet heard of the war that preceded the current Golden Age, and mistakenly assumed that the Garlican Empire rose to power through unprovoked violence and conquest, rather than a war of self-defense and the peaceful, non-coercive conversion of many of WP's influential members of the time. This person gathered the support of other misinformed newcomers and created a knightly order dedicated to the destruction of the Garlican Church and Empire.

Fortunately, this second war was brief, as the knights soon realized their mistake. Peace was made, and our enemies disbanded once more, but this did nothing to stop the inevitable death of our glorious empire. Many well known users of WP and founders of the Church of Garlic were forced to leave. The first tragic loss was that of the redeemed Archbishop Werbert, who went to college and was unable to post with much frequency. Due to his loss, TheMachine1, co-founder of the Church became depressed and lost the will to post. So he bid the Empire farewell and left, never to be heard from again. After this, many Church members and secular WP users began to leave or disappear without explanation. Alternative, Hyper_Alien, Tinky, Deccajay, and many others simply left. Some have since returned, but they rarely post anymore. And then the esteemed Lorde Greyhelium was banned for forgetting that this isn't 4chan, and it's not at all acceptable to post links to shock sites and pretend they're social networking sites. I'm really not going to defend him for that; it was a mistake, but a very damaging one. Regardless, his loss was a tragedy, and without him and all the others, the great Garlican civilization soon faded into obscurity.

I also was unable to find motivation to keep up my old posting rate. If I'd kept posting at that rate, I'd probably have around 50,000 posts by now.

I'd almost forgotten about them. It's really sad what happened to Starbuline. Not Ahayes though, I'm glad he left. In fact, I wish he'd never been here.