Life Advice (and other forum drama)

The Bay 12 Games forums, like all internet communities, has had its fair share of drama over the years. Once-great forumites have been slewn with but a single thwack of Toady One's hammer, living on in only our hearts. It is here they shall be immortalized forever, in this forever-dark pustule of a wiki, an unholy parasite of a thing, long-forgotten.

Memorable Members:

 * Dasleah: Arguably, one of the most amusing former forumites. While his posts bordered on trollish, he was also a great asset to the community. Responsible for the Roguelike Development Megathread, and the simply ingenious Pokethulu Orange. Was unfortunately banned. He then created an alt which was also subsequently banned. Toady also disposed of three other forumites (Captain Mayday, Makrond, and Retro) in a related incident. All shall be sorely missed.


 * Pathos/Vahan: If one sees the word "troll", Pathos is likely to be the first member that comes to the mind of many Bay12ers. Perhaps is best quality is his persistance. As of this writing, he's created 6 accounts (all of which have been banned.) He (along with Dasleah) frequently trolled Life Advice. However, while Dasleah was generally an abrasive (but clever) asshole, Pathos was an idiot. Expect much rolling of eyes if you read any of his threads. He requested his account be deleted, and so it was. This did not put an end to his trollish aspirations, however; over the next several months he would return with a handful of alts, all eventually caught.


 * WhiskerMeister: A prominent 'troll' of life advice. Notable as an utter failure of a troll; some suggest his threads were parody rather than a serious attempt. Started out with Puberty: How hard is it? which was misinterpreted as a genuine request for advice. His focus quickly shifted to relationships which spawned much hilarity thanks to the contributions of Retro and Dasleah. After an unceremonious end, the thread was locked. During the next 15 days, Whiskermeister attempted to expand his presence on the forum further with limited success. A new thread focused on relationships was created in Life Advice. Best enjoyed as a continuation of the first. This thread lasted 28 hours before ToadyOne successfully identified WhiskerMeister as an alt of Nolor, Quarr, and Malarious. Interestingly, none of those accounts exhibited any trollish behaviour. Malarious was briefly active in the mafia scene, while Nolor and Quarr both ran RTDs and Quarr even had begun a suggestion forum game styled in prose. Few are aware that the tetrafecta of accounts, as it were, of Nolor/Quarr/Malarious/WhiskerMeister all belonged to Apostolic Nihilist -- a frequent mafia player in the Fall of 2009. Completely distinct from Pathos.