OK I have had some time to gather more intel. Full disclosure, I am a member of the "cabal" of Eggheads who all talk over text and coordinate targeted troll strikes when the need arises. Think of it as a kind of BGE Skull and Chicken Bones. Or the Gravy Seals, as we're known in Texas. I will trust you all with this info and not to reveal it to anyone. Sure you might laugh at those names but nobody was laughing when the pictures of someone's sister's backside dropped on a Friday night. I still get the night sweats from that. Shiver!
Anywhoooo... I digress! As many people know, the forum was down for a couple of days earlier this week. If you tried to load the website all you saw was a 503 maintenance message that told you to wait a couple of minutes.

But those minutes were turning into hours. And then hours turned into days. The sort of long days I last experienced back in Nam lying down in the grass on long range reconnaissance patrol. Something was clearly just not right. This smelled bad, like that brisket you'd been wet aging in your fridge for months that had blown up into a balloon and you made the mistake of opening inside your kitchen.
Well by Wednesday things were getting heated. The forum denizens were getting angry that day my friends. It seemed like something basic just needed to be done, like rebooting the server or installing a patch. Who would know? The mods! Someone reached out to JIC and since he had been in touch with Rob over the years from coordinating fundraisers for Operation BBQ relief and whatnot, he offered to reach out and ask WTF was going on.
So JIC did that, and the word on the street is that Rob got back to him right away and an hour later the forum was right back up. Somewhere in the middle of that JIC may have hinted that this is the sort of thing that happens when "the aholes in charge are asleep at the wheel" or words to that effect. Maybe it wasn't stated so explicitly but it was definitely implied at least. I would suggest to you that based on what we have seen with the forum back and no real changes that would substantiate a major overhaul justifying a multi-day outage, that the man was right. He may be wrong about a lot of things (I have always wondered about his tales of appearing in porn movies) but on this score, the man knew what he was talking about.
So instead of ruining the forum, JIC sacrificed himself to save it. Or at least, that is the story I am going to tell my grandchildren. May his legend in these threads live on through the members who remain. Or perhaps through one of the many troll accounts he allegedly controls, even though they are all
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If some of you want to quickly print this out so that you can save it for posterity before this thread gets destroyed (and likely this account along with it) by all means go ahead and do that. I would just ask that you print it on toilet paper so that you don't clog up the pipes when you eventually dispose of it. Some of you live in old homes and I'd hate to see that happen.