This goes some way to explaining some of the things I didn’t understand and was too polite/scared of Peter to enquire about.
Admin CP Announcement logs don’t seem to go back to before mid-2003, so I don’t think anything like that is archived. There are some threads still lurking about, and yes, it was all very operatic and flamboyant and I was enthralled. I took Sydney’s side, and was ‘recruited’ to TGA by Gluk Schmuck (Tom, who is currently my housemate at university), who was lurking in OddChat with the nick Vorpal. Remembering some of the counter-arguments, it seemed to me that Sydney was justified in banning the particular members, even if he jumped the gun a bit.
Under Tom’s guidance, I did try to drag Xav to TGA, but he wasn’t following the dispute, and got promoted to General Discussion (as Oddworld Discussion was formerly known) mod in my absence. Didn’t take me long to need my dose of Oddworld chat, though, and I came back and soon joined Xav’s side. I kept up with TGA and its replacements for a while, but lost interest when their activity dried up.
My biggest sense of loss is that of the pre-vBulletin Oddworld Forums. Meh.
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