The Birth of Livewire

In the year 2000, with the turn of the millennium just over and amongst many terrible events like Mount Etna erupting on the island of Sicily and the release of Microsoft's windows 2000 Operating system, a panel of teenagers sat talking in a small room in Oregon, United States. They sat discussing the problem of teenagers needing anonymous support, suddenly a light bulb appeared above the head of one young person and he stood up and announced his idea, they should build a website dedicated to peer support, one to inspire teenagers to help other teenagers, to build a sense of community and to allow people to say things they may otherwise be afraid of saying. Shortly after Claire Chambers came up with LiveWires original logo and slogan concept.They gave this to two web designers involved with the project and with this as a basis and a passion in their hearts David Jones and Reid Beels set up to build a website that would provide peer support for teenagers of Oregon, little did they know the impact they would have on the world.

December 30th 2000: Livewire go on-line.

Originally a customised version of IkonBoard a free Perl based forum system, LiveWire was a basic forum with few members, but it grew quickly within just one month Livewire had gained 249 members and was still growing, David and Reid worked flat out to update and keep the forum running, with their own skills and ideas LiveWire quickly developed and new features and forum layouts were fast to follow.

Accounted by ManicD

28/02/03 1600

JennyColada Promoted to moderator

I got promoted due to a slightly-large mod scandal, and that must have happened Fed 26-27 2003.
Way back in the day, there was this mod (she was one of the first). She was sort of...not that great. She was really annoying, and just kind of used LiveWire as a personal playground (it really doesn't sound bad anymore, it was just frustrating, and the fact that she didn't understand why anyone would care). She kind of pulled the "I'm a mod, I can do whatever I want!" She just sort of...cracked. Banned people willy-nilly, posted porn. She was asked to write a public apology if she wanted to keep her mod position, wrote one and sort of made a mockery of it (it obviously wasn't a serious topic).
So in an act of righteousness David de-modded her, modded me and four others (there is talk of whom in the Mod History topic).

Accounted by JennyColada

Mid 2003

I'm an Ugly Male, What Should I Do For Romance?

Said to be attributed to a little-known member, thegame310, a topic entitled "I'm an Ugly Male, What should I Do For Romance?" which started out as an advice topic, turned into a several hundred post chat topic, in which LiveWire Alumni such as wwlb, bravesfan, EmptySoul and others participated daily.After several other "chat topics" with less popular members were removed, this topic was also removed.This decision by ex-moderator wahoogirl prompted discontent by the primary users of the Ugly Male topic.No record of the actual topic seems to exist, but if you use LiveWire Search, you will find some of the several spawn topics such as Ugly Male Part II and Legend of A Hardcore Topic.
Several other long-running "chat topics" are apparent in LiveWire History, such as Inari's Cult and sexy dean's "Sleepy" but between the inability of newer members to hold a coherent random conversation without bringing up cheese or profanity, and the increased strictness of the moderation staff regarding off-topic posts and non-contributive replies, no contemporary incarnations exist.

Recounted by penguincube

09/09/03

Conflict between controversial moderator and controversial member.

On September 9th, 2003, a longstanding feud between two controversial members, one, Anthem (who was banned for over a year and has since been pardoned) who was known for making insensitive and offensive posts, and XxCrazyDawg69xX (who was a moderator, who has since resigned and has not been active on LiveWire in years) came to a head.
After a flame-filled thread about moderators, in which Anthem insulted CrazyDawg's inability to use proper grammar and reading comprehension, CrazyDawg responded with perhaps one of the most vulgar comments by a moderator in LiveWire's history.David was MIA regarding the incident, and CrazyDawg was never demoted nor reprimanded.

A screen shot of this incident can be viewed at the following link.Also take note of the differences in the look and feel of the forums at this point in time: http://img.golivewire.com/ib/88957_f.jpg

Recounted by penguincube

16/10/03

I'm Sleepy

At 12:30am on the 16 of october 2003, a young lad (sexy dean) from Tennessee, United States was helping the needy people of liveWire. After exausting himself in this great endever, he thought time was to go to sleep, before he went he though, it was time to say goodnight to the great people of LiveWire, those who would take his task in providing dedicated help and support to the community and so, he made a topic, a little smile, a little humor for when he returned. He created the topic "I'm sleepy", Little did he know just how big this topic would grow. Violating no rules and providing the perfect place for spam this topic exploded with randomness. Four months and 875 pages later it was still going, untill at 11:30 pm on Feb. 21, 2004 it was finally locked by the LiveWire Moderation Team. This topic thought lost forever lay dormant onthe servers hard disk for a long while. Untill, one day, almost 8 months later, the most unlikely of events happened, the topic was once again unlocked. Suddenly with leaps of delight from Livewire the topic exploded again. Between 5:12 pm and 10:51 pm on Oct. 2, 2004 Livewire members managed to add another 13 pages to the topic before it was finally locked again at a grand total of 888 pages long. To date this is the largest topic ever created on livewire.

Reccounted by ManicD

New Member Rankings

??/12/03

Young One
Lemming
Rodent Wrangler
Professional
Connoisseur
Navigator
Hyper-Active One
Field Expert
Sire
Visionary
Soothsayer
Enlightened One
Omnipotent One
Guru
Customizable

Written by wolverineh8ter

February 7th, 2004

"Inmember" Code Added, Hilarity Ensues

One the 7th of February in 2004 Anthem discovered a new source code that David had recently added to LiveWire, for reasons unknown (although possibly it was added in order to facilitate the creation of topics intended for all members to read).The basis behind the [inmember] source code was that [inmember] would be seen by logged-in members as their own name.For instance, Anthem would have seen [inmember] on the forums as 'Anthem.'Realizing the exploitation potential of such a code, she quickly made a topic called "Please Read: A Rant About Someone."The contents of the topic were as follows:

"[inmember] YOU STUPID SHIT
You know what [inmember], I am sick and tired of listening to your shit, you think you are so cool but in reality you are just a stupid pathetic idiot. Why don't you shut up for a second, you boast about mindless shit all the time and you don't realize nobody wants to waste their time on you.

Do everyone a favour and poke your eyes out and cut your hands off."

Everyone who clicked on the topic read [inmember] as their own name and naturally thought that they in particular were the targets of the rant.The majority of the early replies were angry, asking Anthem why she made a topic dedicated to insulting them; at the time they did not realize what was truly happening.Most of us who talked to her on a regular basis were struck with the question "What did we do to make her mad?"

After a few pages people started to get it (quoting the original post would give clues to the code) and the smarter ones among us, mostly IRC regulars, began using the code as well in the same topic, leading to much confusion among those who still were in the dark.Eventually most of the regular posters got the practical joke and we all started trying to explain it to the people who hadn't yet understood it.Even by the second from the last page there were still some people who didn't get it.One person in particular never, ever got it at all and even made a post about it in the Serious Forum - where serious situations are supposed to be discussed.Even after that, she was still in the dark and I think it caused her to leave LiveWire.

The [inmember] code was disabled four days later by David because it was "being abused."This abuse is, of course, a reference to said hilarious [inmember] topic.

Recounted by Rainbow Blight

Early 2004

Team Elite, From Romance to Rebellion

The whole ordeal pretty much dates back to the early weeks of 2004, wherein I (at this point in time my account was 'MorningStar' was introduced to a girl called Redstar7 by my friend Togabearcat. We instantly clicked and developed a great friendship that we thought would last forever. Sometime in June Redstar7 and I decided in our young naivety that we were in love and were soon talking every day. During this same summer of love Bradley007 fell in love with a girl in Michigan whose name I no longer remember, and Shadow Of Infinity fell in love with Kell, after I introduced them to each other over IRC. By this time, most of the 'popular members of LiveWire were using IRC on a regular basis - for the record, myself, Redstar7 , Shadow Of Infinity, Bradley007, cutie2, chalkboard sonata, medjai, Kim, Kates04, Narcissistic07, auschick, katyduck, bri872002, NYGirl1113, Rachleigh13, candyflipper, Apotheosis, and numerous others were included in this crowd. Generally, I'd say we mostly got along well with each other. It was pretty much an IRC gangor team, of LiveWire elites.

As the friendship between Redstar7and I started to crumble, I still involved myself in the IRC drama, interfering in the romantic lives of others to make up for my own, which was falling miserably apart. Bradley007 had long ago broken up with his girlfriend from Michigan by this time, but the relationship between Kell and Shadow Of Infinity was still going strong, much to my surprise, in spite of Shadow Of Infinity's incessant whining and worrying. chalkboard sonata, Bradley007, and cutie2 tried to knock some sense into the sorrowful, depressed, and suicidal Shadow Of Infinity with kind words, while auschick, Apotheosis, and myself took a slightly harsher route. This resulted in Shadow Of Infinity calling Apotheosis and I something along the lines of "the worst people ever" and I believe that on several occasions I made Shadow Of Infinity cry. Most of us didn't believe that Shadow Of Infinity and Kell, who lived on opposite sides of Australia, would ever meet face-to-face, but we were proven wrong when Shadow Of Infinity moved to South Australia to be with Kell. I'd like to believe that this "Summer of Love" brought our team of LiveWire elites closer as friends. The whole tale of Shadow Of Infinity's woes eventually became public, when I produced a LiveWire version of "Hamlet," chronicling every single shameful thing that Shadow Of Infinity had ever done. Even he was impressed.

In early November of 2004, what Redstar7 and I had previously, looked to be completely doomed and I started talking a lot more to Narcissistic07 and we got pretty close, playing Pictionary together and cooking up ingenious tricks to play on the unknowing public. For some reason, Narcissistic07 ended up disagreeing with BBallAsh23 at this time and brought me along into her plan (which was deviously cruel, yet at the time seemed hilarious) of creating a fake Xanga account with which to mock her. Somehow, Redstar7 ended up getting involved with us in that affair and when she was questioned, she leaked all the secrets behind the fake Xanga. Needless to say, Narcissistic07 and I were FUCKING PISSED OFF, and doubly so when Redstar7 broke up with me on our five-month anniversary, so we planned to make a fake Xanga account to mock Redstar7. The plan never came into being, though, because I soon had to take a trip to California to visit a friend of mine.

During this time, I started talking extensively with a sweet young girl called silvertoungedliar, a new member of LiveWire at the time. Of course I was still angry with Redstar7 for breaking up with me and foiling me and Narcissistic07 plans, so in revenge I started a rebound relationship with silvertoungedliar. Originally I only did this to piss Redstar7 off, but it didn't take long for me to sincerely start to care about silver, who soon started using IRC with the rest of LiveWire's popular clique. During one particular conversation between silver and I, I happened to be extremely stoned and when I saved it to my Xanga account, I forgot to make it private. All hell broke loose after Redstar7 and Narcissistic07 read it and the four of us started fighting until I managed to prove to silver that I did it all by mistake.

But the drama didn't end there. Narc and Redstar7 were still mad and I ended up yelling at Narc during one MSN conversation, telling her to kill herself because of her help in leaking out the 'forbidden' conversation between silver and I. For the next four or so months silver and I constantly argued, in part because of Redstar7's schemes against us. It didn't help our group's unity much when Katyduck got all pissed off at me for some reason, and from then on I held a grudge at her, particularly once she started harassing another new member called jkwsouthpimpin constantly and things were made worse when, while drunk, I was convinced over IRC to call JKW while she was in class, making HER distrustful of me now. I was more pissed off at Katy now than ever before, and I felt betrayed by my IRC friends, who by now were having enough of me and silver's drama. Katy also started harassing a new moderator called LunarFlame and due to my intense loathing for Katy I got on her ass about that too. Eventually silver got mad and stopped talking to me because I'd always call her while drunk and end up blacking out during the conversation. I had reached the breaking point at last. I was like a cop on the edge, with nothing left to lose, so what did I do?

I created a topic addressing David Jones (Administrator of LiveWire), telling him that I couldn't believe how he didn't see how cliquish LiveWire had become and how 'Team Elite' was ruining the site (as you could see, I was still sore about my friends seemingly betraying me). It was essentially a banme thread though, because my intention was to be banned shortly afterwards and leave IRC, Team Elite, and LiveWire forever. I even asked repeatedly that I be banned but to no avail. My topic "David, can you introduce me to your crack dealer?" caught on like wildfire. Surprisingly, numerous people agreed with me that something should be done about the clique abuse coming from my friends on IRC. I believe that Rocker, Amphigory, and Prisoner of HSS were some of my strongest supporters and Rocker even made a ban me topic of her own, finally getting banned after a round of spamming. In the midst of the hot debate in the Crack dealer topic, I started spamming LiveWire as well in the hopes of getting banned, but to no avail. In a series of emails between David and I, I explained to him what I believed to be wrong with the clique situation, even going as far as David and I asking him to log onto IRC and check out what was going on, and after a whole lot of mindless spamming, I thought I'd got what I wantedbut no, I was not banned, indeed, I was still a member of LiveWire, except that my points had been reduced to 0, and the same happened to Britz, another senior member of LiveWire. This happened on the 9th of July in 2005. Britz got pissed off, insulted a few people, and was promptly banned. I suppose that it was a demonstration to the people that breaking the rules and being excessively mean to people in the support forums would lead to harsh consequences. Despite the loss of my pointswhich I cared quite little about since I still at that point wanted to be bannedI felt a degree of victory. Another good thing that resulted from the whole debacle was the ability for members who no longer wished to use LiveWire to close their accounts (in the beginning, account-closing was permanent) instead of having to go on a spamming spree, asking to be banned.

At around the same time as this was happening, Cowboy Killer and I were talking about the idea of creating a new Internet messageboard for ex-LiveWire members to use. At the creation, we both declared ourselves administrators and I was pleased with the poweras little as it wasthat I now wielded. This messageboard was called "Star Island." Rocker, Amphigory, and Prisoner of HSS soon joined Star Island and we continued to have LiveWire members join our forum, although most of them, including Cowboy Killer, Kates04, and candy canes are rad, never left LiveWire and posted on both messageboards. In the meantime, I continued to go undercover on LiveWire in order to recruit new Star Islanders from my now-banned parachute accounts. Shortly afterwards, I finally got my wish my primary account, Morning Star, was banned from LiveWire after I sent an angry letter to my now ex-friend silvertoungedliar, accusing her of lying to me about multiple things after speaking with a trusted source who knew us both and the nature of our relationship. This of course didn't help my standing with my IRC friends when its contents were revealed since the letter was especially insulting and I did feel a degree of remorse for my meanness towards someone who I had cared deeply for. Ironically, silver later commented that she found my letter "funny"but at this point I was already permabanned and some trickster was posing as a returning version of me, for some reasonbefore he too was banned and joined Star Island!

As promising as it could have been, Star Island never became close to being as popular as LiveWire and as much as I enjoyed having administrative powers, I had to accept this. But at this point, I pretty much stopped caring about posting on messageboards and talking to people on the Internet. I needed a break. I think the most fitting quote from the Crackhouse topic on LiveWire was the final post before it was locked"Give David Jones some respect," because it was true: no one can disagree that he's put a lot of hard work into making the forums a success, and I'll be the first to admit that it was wrong of me to put so much blame on him over a disagreement between my friends and I. As of now, I'm no longer dissatisfied with LiveWire, I'm no longer fighting with my fellow members, pretty much all the Star Islanders including myself have returned to LiveWire, and I can once again consider silver a wonderful and trustworthy friend of mine. Thus ends the ridiculous saga of Team Elite and Star Island.

Recounted by MorningStar

July of 2004

Little Boy Banned From LiveWire, Shows Penis to All of IRC

Some time in July of 2004 a new member, Sean, joined LiveWire.I forgot his username, but he seemed pretty smart for his age (12), typing properly and acting pretty much more mature than a lot of people older than him.But he didn't have any common sense, and was soon banned.Somehow, he managed to start using IRC immediately expecting to be accepted.He was not.Most of the IRC gang continuously made fun of him, with the butts of the jokes usually being his young age and his lack of common sense.

After a whole lot of instances of us making fun of him, telling him how he's not a real man and probably has a small penis, I said, okay, if you say that you don't have a small penis, then why don't you SHOW me, for proof.Honestly, I didn't believe he would.Boy was I wrong.I soon received a very clear picture, probably taken by a digital camera, of a tiny little boy's penis, right there in plain view!I didn't expect him to have THIS little common sense.This was just too much.So naturally, the IRC gang who was online at the time all took a look at the picture and we all agreed that Sean had a small penis.Then we promised not to show it to anyone.

But of course, seeing as how this is LiveWire, we couldn't stop ourselves.On July 26th of 2004, negative0 (appropriate, because at the time there was a running joke about Chris's penis) posted a topic called The Latest Game.The premise of the game was to display the picture of Sean's small penis covered by white squares, with people giving away five points each to remove one little white square, thus revealing more and more of the penis.However so as to make it safe for work the first white squares removed did not show anything incriminating.People kept removing squares until only the penis itself was covered.By that time though, pretty much everyone in the IRC gang had seen the unedited penis picture and the rest of LiveWire became disillusioned that there was anything being hidden.Too bad for them.The penis itself was never made public.This may or may not be a good thing.

Accounted by Rainbow Blight

March 22, 2005

DOMINION: History of Global Asskickery

Crack open the dusty Dominion history book and see where this game has come from, its roots, its life as a topic and then as an entire forum, and even some more shit you probably don't care about.WELL I DO, WHORE.

BACKGROUND
DOMINION: A Game Of Global Asskickery was created by TiMmMeE (Tim) on March 23, 2005.The original idea was supposed to be just a map to spur people to make up their own countries and government types, until he realized that idea was fucking lame and that countries should be able to take over the map...er, world.

The actual creation of the topic and assorted pictures (map, Declaration papers, Timopian flag, etc.) took a few hours during the day before the original topic was posted at 12:53 AM (EST).

The topic originally had everything contained in one post, which proved to be extremely irritating to update: a message section, current events, current countries, and FAQ.(Citizens of every country had to be constantly updated by one person, which was a pretty dumb idea.)

Interesting Side Notes

• Tim couldn't decide between Dominion and Domination for a while.Dominion eventually won out (it really does have much of a nicer ring to it).

• The first reply to any mention of a Dominion forum game was, and I quote
  

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  hmmm i don't understand... but it sounds interesting...

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  --Bumblebee

• The original Dominion topic grossed a whopping 2365 replies (169 pages) although the topic was only open for a week.

DOMINION

Begun: March 22, 2005
Ended: March 31, 2005
World Conquerors: Unknown
Summary of Events:
The original DOMINION: A Game of Global Asskickery was a one-post wonder that almost didn't go anywhere.The first page has about 5 replies by Tim half-bumping the ailing topic.Some of the duller tools in LiveWire's shed were probably scared off by the length of the topic and the reading that required to understand the game.

When by the next day (March 23rd) no one had registered, Tim offered free credits for joining (the price was originally 20 LW Reward Points, as it is today).Finally, after some prodding over AIM, DarkLink224 joined the NWO with his country, Konoha, and soon after Devilishly cute joined with Clarg ("The Land of Sag", because it looked a lot like a pair of dangling breasts). penguincube followed soon after with the State of Tinguen, and smartnerd with The Holy Crazian Empire (honoring The Lord, CraziJ).

Konoha and Clarg allied after forming, and The State of Tinguen became the third member in this alliance.

But the action quickly picked up as more countries joined on the 23rd: FishyCrossing's FishLandia, ras's The Non-Existent Country, Troll's The Mountains, and echo813's Echotopia.The Mounatins and The Holy Crazian Empire soon allied, which Fishlandia joined.Two sides were obviously forming.
After RyGuy joined the NWO with Chicken Falls, The Non-Existent Country took this opportunity to ally with the new country.Then, Echotopia joined the side of Fishlandia, THCE, and The Mountains.The Non-Existent Country and Chicken Falls also joined this increasingly large alliance.

But Chicken Falls and The Non-Existent Country changed their minds in the existing pressure from the Tinguen, Clarg, and Konoha alliance.(The NEC tried allying with Tinguen, but seeing as they were already allied with THCE, penguincube soon repealed it).Chicken Falls and the NEC cancelled their existing alliance (because penguincube said that smartnerd would always be a sworn enemy of Tinguen) and joined their ranks.The last straggler of the day, JeremyM, joined with his tiny country Lotionstan.

The tension between [the State of Tinguen, Clarg, Konoha, Chicken Falls, The Non-Existent Country] alliance and [The Holy Crazian Empire, Fishlandia, The Mountains, and Echotopia] alliance continued to increase throughout the night of the 23rd.smartnerd, probably sensing the impending disaster, left his position as the ruler of the Holy Crazian Empire (leaving it to CraziJ).Sure enough, penguincube made his move and declared war on The Holy Crazian Empire at 12:56 AM on March 24th (now known as NWOWWI).

But as the war raged on, it was clear that Tinguen and allies were in the lead.Many people posted stating they would like to join Chicken Falls, though, which began to trouble penguincube (as all allies must eventually turn on each other).He posted a quick public relations note that would make any real man weep:

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The State of Tinguen would like to officially proclaim how important the alliance and friendship of Chicken Falls is, and express our desire to be allies for a decent time to come.
President Penguincube
Head of State, Tinguen.

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The people rallied among their chosen countries, making supportive pictures using Paint or Photoshop (pictures of CraziJ as a god, pictures with flags showing blood and demolition, tanks littered across the screen).

Seeing the trouble CraziJ was in, JeremyM successfully bent the rules in his favor in order to get out of a trap he set himself in (allying with the side whose outlook wasn't too favorable).

While the war was still raging, two more countries hopped in the game a bit late: medjai and quidam's now-infamous Bohemia, and XxCrazyDawg69xX's Pantsland. medjai's very first post decreed an automatic declaration of war on Konoha (which didn't happen as speedy as was expected).The topic was flooded with "No, join [so and so]!" posts and members were being sent multiple PMs to join different countries.

After The Holy Crazian Empire fell to Tinguen, that land along with the land in The Mountains, Fishlandia, and Echotpia was all annexed to the victors.Soon after, Pantsland joined the large coalition.Bohemia and Lotionstan remained independent as the rest of the world loomed over them.

And seeing the astounding rate at which Bohemia was growing, the huge alliance of [Pantsland, Konoha, The Non-Existent Country, State of Tinguen, Chicken Falls, Clarg] declared war on Bohemia (now known as NWOWWII) soon after the one hour delay following NWOWWI.The last few stragglers (lostwitness's My Bananas) signed up around this time as well.

But Bohemians declared this unfair, and, especially arriving at such a late point in the game with such a pause between the request for Bohemia and the map edit finally showing it, The State of Tinguen finally stepped down and dismissed the war against Bohemia.

The game was put on hold as several rule changes were discussed, increasing the scope of the gameplay extensively.However, due to the amount of changes that had to be made (and being granted a forum by davjs) the game was never completed and will forever remain in a state of limbo.

Thus, the end of the original Dominion has not been written.

Accounted By TiMmMeE

01/04/05 08:15

The New Livewire

At 8:15am David did it, after a long time of traveling and consideration, David decided he had been wrong about the rights of this world and he showed us all what his religious enlightenment had taught him. Starting with this topic http://www.golivewire.com/forums/peer-119540-support-0.html He removed the privileges from women and corrected the world to the way god intended it to be. David made the following corrections to livewire:
Added a new forum specifically for young women,
Developed guidelines for subjects which are suitability for the female mind,
In the interest of decency direct female to male messaging now requires prior consent from the female's father or lawful wedded husband
Female moderators are asked to leave decision to those with more capable mental faculties, namely the men.
In keeping with current GAO reports of women earning 80% of the salaries men earn for the same jobs I have altered the LiveWire point system to reflect this. From this day forth women will earn 0.80 points for each post, while men will receive the usual 1.00 point.
It is men's place to care for women, and one of the duties of every man is to vote. Therefore there is no reason for women to trouble their minds with such matters.
Added a forum called Future Housewives where women can be protected from the complicated and difficult to fathom opinions of men, thus no males will be allowed to post there.

These changes were met with outrage and jealousy from the female population but the superior Men qwashed the screams and agreed with davids teachings.
This was all another of davids April fools jokes and the men got the other end of the stick the following day when David released this topic http://www.golivewire.com/forums/peer-119962-support-0.html A cruel punishment to inflict on the superior gender and a step away from the true ideals of this world, but for 24hours the men suffered only to be returned to the fowl state of equal with the women on the 3rd of April 2005.

Accounted by ManicD

Livewire Lottery #1
25/04/05

The Livewire Lottery is a game of chance played by members of livewire, The original idea was created by lostwitness and The first lottery started on April 25th 2005.
Livwire Lottery 1
The first ever lottery was won by ilovecookies who won 2418 Reward Points.

Recounted by ManicD

Livewire Lottery #2

14/05/05

The Livewire Lottery is a game of chance played by members of livewire, The original idea was created by lostwitness and The first lottery started on April 25th 2005.
Livwire Lottery 2
The Second lottery was won by galeharoldishot who won 2266 Reward Points.

Recounted by ManicD

09/07/05

Zero Tolerance on Abusive Posting

A significant development in Livewires history, On this day David declared that no member would get away with being abusive or unsupported to other members, Now what people need to understand is that the community was growing at a fantastic rate, the moderators were working flat out and a period of "tough love" was sweeping through livewire, those posting in need of help were being told to "throw themselves off buildings" etc. David saw what was happening and decided that HIS site was not to be like that, That the principles of this site would be upheld and that people would need to be made listen. Two members, Two Senior members were selected. Well known, well liked and breaking the rules. David sent a hugh slapping message into the heart of livewire, taking these members up in front of the whole community he hit them right where it hurt. Stripping them of a over 10,000 points each he reduced them to novice rank. With this topic he released his new rules on Livewire, his new zero tolerance policy. http://www.golivewire.com/forums/peer-156886-support-0.html This struck fear into the hearts of all the members, many ran guarding their point balances, justifying there actions. But davids hard hand ruled over them, they were all within his almighty power and those who refused to accept the new rules were quickly crushed and banished by the efficient moderation squad.

Accounted by ManicD

28/08/05

Shuichi: The Plagiarism Question

On Aug. 28, 2005, the Executive Director of LiveWire, David Jones, created a topic in the Member-2-Moderator forum announcing an open investigation on the Jr. Moderator Shuichi for Plagiarism and Identity Fraud. During this investigation, David suspended Shuichi's moderator privileges due to his actions breaking LiveWire's Guidelines. The outcome of David's findings would determine if Shuichi would be banned or be allowed to have his moderator privileges back.

Shuichi, known by his real name Robbie, created a topic called "More of a Musing than Anything" in the Deep Thoughts & Random Musings Forum. In his topic, he used another member's work from a peer support site called SpankMag and credited himself as the sole creator of the work. Member highallthetime posted a link to a topic created in SpankMag with another member Pixy posting the same work as Robbie's. The members of Livewire started questioning if this was in fact the work of Robbie. Even though he continued to deny that it was someone else's work, Darklink224 contacted the member Pixy from SpankMag to clarify the truth. Pixy's profile listed her as a 20 year old female which Robbie claimed to be him. Accordingly, he chose to be listed as that due to not liking "being constrained by gender or age." On the 3rd page of Robbie's topic, Pixy created a screen name on Livewire listed as Pixyjen, telling in her post that "I am the one that wrote this and posted it on SPANK!" as well as "Please take it down, or give me credit.As it is...I will be turning you in."

It was the same day; Aug. 28 that Pixyjen told David the current situation as well as other members of the Livewire community. During the open discussion in the topic, members had mixed emotions to what was currently going on, mostly asking the question "why?" Pixyjen posted in the topic thanking the members that supported her as well as to help get the issue resolved. Soon after, Robbie posted his apology in the topic saying that he was sorry for what he did. He ultimately blamed it on "lack of sleep" and therefore his lack of judgment was clouded. His topic was edited by him to credit Pixyjen work after his apology. Even though Robbie wasn't given his moderator privileges back, he was allowed to keep his membership with LW.

The date is uncertain when the issue was resolved, but the outcome was still controversial for members Amphigory and ButtersUK. They thought his punishment wasn't good enough and that the issue was being brushed aside. In the end, the arguments started to go off topic and died. Also in the topic, Moderator PiXiE said "I highly doubt he'll be a mod again." As well as Moderator wmudude said "his status as a Moderator will not be reinstated." Shuichi was promoted back to moderator status on April 6, 2006.

Reccounted by Amphigory


Livewire Lottery #3

13/09/05

The Livewire Lottery is a game of chance played by members of livewire, The original idea was created by lostwitness and The first lottery started on April 25th 2005.
Livwire Lottery 3
The third lottery was won by Music of the Night who won 1883 Reward Points.

Recounted by ManicD


13/10/05

The Intellectual Forum' Replaces 'The Serious Forum.'

Support Leaders long predate the concept of eHelp, so what did they used to do?The Serious Forum was what many consider the predecessor to our Emergency Help system.Anyone could post a topic in the Serious Forum, and only Support Leaders could reply to the topic, ensuring that the member only got the most high quality responses.The Problem?Promptness was not something that went hand-in-hand with The Serious Forum, as there was no alert that there was a new problem, outside of checking the forum every so often (and this was not particularly fun considering it wasn't used that often).
There were most certainly upsides to the concept.The few Support Leaders who responded to the topics were well known, and members sometimes started topics by addressing these members by name.
However, early in 2005, David launched the genius system of eHelp, which delivered problems right to the in-boxes of Support Leaders.Because of this, The Serious Forum waned in popularity more than ever.Unready to give up the idea of restricted posting in a forum, David introduced the new concept of the "Intellectual Forum," which now sits in the spot of the dearly departed Serious Forum.Members had to pass a multiple choice logic test in order to gain the privilege of creating topics and replies in this forum.In 2006, a free response portion was added to the examination.

Recounted by penguincube

Support Leader Demotions - "When the Support Vanished"

Nov 6th 2005

As the Support Leaders of LiveWire logged on for the day, many found an oddity in their accounts. No flashing e-Help message, in fact no messages at all. Many members thought theirs was an isolated incident, but soon word got out that many more SL's had lost their status as well. Like a virus running though the heart of livewire, People who were support leaders one day were members the next. Hundreds of Support leaders lost there title, but as with all great epidemics the human race survives and a seemingly random group of seven members had retained their status. They fought on to hold livewire whilst the mods ran round like headless chickens figuring out what had gone wrong.
Then at 11:42 pm on Nov. 6, 2005 The announcements icon lit up like a lighthouse in a storm. Kira sent out a message to the Support Leaders and the rest of LiveWire to shed light on the situation

Due to a glitch, every Support Leader had to re-apply for their position. Although members wee initially displeased, They all sucked it up and re-applied. The initial effect causing a backlog of applications the mods were racing through in record time, filtering out the old rubbish that had once started with good intentions and leaving behind the best LiveWire had to offer. In the end, this saga turned out to be a step up for LiveWire, a new beginning for support and a brave move forward into a new world.

Recounted by big mac & ManicD

Livewire Lottery #4

10/12/05

The Livewire Lottery is a game of chance played by members of livewire, The original idea was created by lostwitness and The first lottery started on April 25th 2005.
Livwire Lottery 4
The forth lottery was won by Artistic Drain who won 4523 Reward Points.

Recounted by ManicD

01/04/06 16:55

David's April Fools Joke '06 is released

At 4:55GMT David released his prank on our good community. An innocent looking topic was all it took, a promise of a way to turn our points into real products. He created this opening topic http://www.golivewire.com/forums/peer-275302-support-0.html that allowed users to vist this specially designed shop http://www.golivewire.com/forums/shop.cgi .now the Wary among us Guessed at davids plot but some members eyes lit up with joy, their dear little heart sang at the prizes dangled in front of them for the taking. they went forth, trusting the almighty David, faithfully believing his honest ways and were caught like flys in a spiders web, caught and tormented by davids grand plan. The plot was finally revealed by David, one day later when he brought final humility on those caught by his deeds naming and shaming them in this final topic of cruelty.

Accounted by ManicD

19/08/06

Sidebar Movement

On the 19th of august 2006, David inflicted another crule and unusual punishment upon the
members of his community. Livewires famous Navigation sidebar moved from its proper
position on the right hand side of our screens to the left.A small change to some but
to the members of Livewire David may as well have turned the pages upside down. Whats
more he made the following announcement in his Livezilla logs
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Moved Sidebar

Most information on LiveWire is on the left side of the screen (topic titles) so it makes sense to put the navigation closer to them.

This will also help us when pages are too wide due to someone inserting a large image. The sidebar will still be visible in cases like that.

And just in case you are tempted, no I'm not going to make it possible to choose where your sidebar is located.
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Caos ensued... Members could not understand why such changes would be made, the sidebar had always fitted well on the right hand side,it looked good and functioned well there, now our pages were being moved over the texts for topics were inches away from where they should be on our screens. The members of livewire begged and pleaded, some were drove to madness from this out of place bar. Members grouped together, we stood as one in mass and shouted to David to see sense, we wanted it back, we needed it back we explained how we could not go on living with the bar in such a stupid position. A 7 page topic followed http://www.golivewire.com/forums/peer-347989-support-00.html as well as an official poll by the masses where a whopping 83% wanted the bar moved back. Avatars were created and livewire became a world where one could not go anywhere without the "right is righteous" Solgan Beaming in there faces. Protests raged for 3 days, the masses battling against the tyrant David until eventually he paid heed. he listened to us and released this statement on the Livezilla
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This must be a democracy

Okay, you guys win, I tip my hat to all of you rightists. You can now set which side you want your sidebar to appear on in My Account --> Appearance.
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Rejoicing Began, the members of Livewire had been heard, a new day was dawning over Livewire and Political actions were now achieving results.
Well done Livewire, Well done David.

Accounted by ManicD

Livewire Lottery #5

30/08/06

The Livewire Lottery is a game of chance played by members of livewire, The original idea was created by lostwitness and The first lottery started on April 25th 2005. However this lottery was not ran by Lostwitness but instead by ilovecookies, who had realised that such an idea should not be forgotten.
Livewire Lottery 5
The Fifth lottery was won by Rainbow Blight who won 18,103 Reward Points.This is currently the highest amount ever won on a Livewire Lottery.

Recounted by ManicD

Livewire Lottery #6

28/10/06

The Livewire Lottery is a game of chance played by members of livewire, The original idea was created by lostwitness and The first lottery started on April 25th 2005.
Livwire Lottery 6
The sixth lottery was won by FurryPanther who won 13,035 Reward Points.

Recounted by ManicD

10/11/06

Basic Membership Checklist

Here is my account of the horrors that day wrought on this land...

It was a day like any other.All of the unsuspecting citizens sat quietly in their homes, watching their flashing screens, replying to post after post on their beloved LiveWire.What no one knew, was that life as they knew it, would soon cease to exist.With a flash, everyone was demoted to the loathsome Orange Bar.Chaos filled the forums."What happened?" posts sprang up uncontrollably.Everyone said that it was just a simple glitch.They were so horribly wrong.It all ended with a single line of text in the Fresh Topics List."Basic Member Checklist," it read.Davjs stated his new demands and with them came an uproar of outrage.Flame after flame licked at David's heels as he ran screaming for his life, clinging to his Administrator title.With a flash, 10, 20, 30 new topics flooded the forums.Screw Dave this, and Revolution that.One couldn't wander the net without thinking the words, "It's over."We fought and fought, and he, that tyrant, denied us.Longer and longer, we waited and ranted, anticipating the moment when our precious blue and red bars would return to us.With no where to turn, the "new" members started popping up.One after another, old members turning new, just to fight for their blue bars.Some stood fast, shouting to the heavens while others continued to create new accounts.It would only be a matter of time before the over-population sent that server crashing down.On that frightful day, the Internet fell silent, and everyone waited for David to sheathe his checklist...Fighting and fighting we all continued, with flames and topics galore.It seemed there would be no end to this onslaught, and that Dave would stand fast in his new law.The battle raged fierce until David finally came to us... his checklist shining gold."Question & Answer + A Compromise," was where he was dwelling, composing a treaty to end the war.Finally, at 1:06 am (PST), the text shone black like velvet in the announcement tab, it's little red marker blinking like a beacon.It stated that 3 referrals may have been too many, and that maybe this new tax would ruin the country.He did what any other frightened leader would do, he upheld the masses' shouts and lowered the tax.One friend was all he required, and with that, the members went to work.Not long after, the ecstatic LiveWireians were earning their beloved blue and red bars back, and all was returning to normal as this new law was set in stone and taken as the norm...Few will remember this day, but those who do will remember it as a victory for both everyone at Livewire and for Dave.There is nothing that matches the power of compromise.

In loving memory of all those who perished in this great feud.We salute you...

Accounted by BrokenBelief

15/10/06

ANAT GHELBER

A now banned member, melissapissa, created multiple topics about a girl called ANAT GHELBER and shit about how she was so awesome and pretty, etc. One of such topics can be found here: http://www.golivewire.com/forums/peer-380413-support-0.html Many have had queries about the spelling of her name. It is ANAT GHELBER, not Anat Ghelber or Anat Gelber or Anat Ghelbert. And most importantly, watch out! ANAT GHELBER is very seductive and will do anything to get in your pants.

Accounted by samzkuul

22/11/06

Birth of the Livewire History Group

The idea struck me as I read through the courageous tale of the basic membership checklist, Why should all of Livewires history not be recounted in this way, should all the events that shaped Livewire not be recorded so that future generations would be able to read and recall these? Plans started formulating, immediately I realised that a simple topic would not be enough, i needed to gather information, format the records in a simple method, so i headed to the groups section, and thus a group was formed, a group that would go on to write and record the official history of Livewire. A quick topic in the DTRM forum notified Livewire of the new group and petitioned them to come help me write the events as they knew them. A few joined at first, offering topics that needed to be included and references to information, then the almighty penguincube pledged his allegiance to the cause and wrote with all his hearts desire, with his contributions to the records, on the 23/11/06GMT he earnt the honorable position of first Livewire History Group Manager, A leading role allowing him to edit the official records and aid in the mammoth task of writing the history to date.

Accounted By ManicD (Founder of the Livewire History Group)

Moderator Promotions

19/12/06

mapleafan Promoted to moderator at 3:07am on Dec. 19, 2006
SomeoneLoveMePromoted to moderator at 3:05am on Dec. 19, 2006
sarah mae Promoted to moderator at 3:04am on Dec. 19, 2006

Recounted by ManicD

More Moderator Promotions

20/12/06

audrey820 Promoted to moderator at 7:20am on Dec. 20, 2006

The Current Moderation Team is as follows:

bri872002
JennyColada
penguincube
RelientKFan824
WigAOK9
wmudude
Tangaroa
TiMmMeE
RachLeigh13
kira
Artistic Drain
Enzeru
Mysterious
insertnamehere
MoonlitEden
dovelove
ixi
The Oath
pleaseremove
PiXiE
Shuichi
anonymousss
WaterNymph
ajm51987
telomere13
medjai
DefaultTo0
Apotheosis
Spirit
BBallAsh23
SomeoneLoveMe
mapleafan
sarah mae
audrey820

Recounted by ManicD

Livewire Lottery #7

24/12/06

The Livewire Lottery is a game of chance played by members of livewire, The original idea was created by lostwitness and The first lottery started on April 25th 2005.
Livewire Lottery 7
The seventh lottery was won by katja who won 9,896 Reward Points.

Recounted by ManicD

The Wire

10/01/07

David Releases the Official LiveWire Newspaper entitled "The Wire" a clever pun on the Livewire name. A LiveWire newspaper has been requested many times before and attempted a few times as well yet these have all failed. Now members have an official page and newspaper layout, Veterans Of LiveWire are curious to what its uptake may be.

Accounted By ManicD

Mid Jan 07

The fall of Mapleafan

Mapleafan was demoted after evidence surfaced that he had used his moderation privileges for harm.

By using his moderation powers entrusted to him by the almighty, he found information about a member he knew in real life, he spread this information causing devastating repercussions for the member in question, an innocent member who entrusted his soul to LiveWire.

The almighty discovered this and was enraged, his power and confidence had been abused. He struck down the Moderator, stripped him of his powers and sent him back to mingle with the members he had thought himself above.

A Devastating crime, A just punishment.

Reccounted by ManicD

01/02/07

New Moderators

HazelEyes - Promoted to moderator at 2:23am on Feb. 1, 2007
edey105 - Promoted to moderator at 1:05am on Feb. 1, 2007

Reccounted By ManicD

07/03/07

The Customization Spree

One amusing night, a certain member found a flaw in LiveWire's profile-modifying system. Around 8:45 PM, gro's posts started showing up with a Location of "OH MY GOD HOW DID THIS GET HERE" and a Orientation/Gender of "WAIT WHAT???" attached on the bottom. Soon after, he posted a topic proclaiming his discovery to the world. MariJani understood the little info that gro had given about how to do such impossible customizing and modified her own profile, choosing "LOOK AT ME | GLBT Ally WORD."
gro and MariJani refused to reveal their secret method at first, but the PMs started rolling in over the next few hours, and when charolastra asked, "is this board being haxed?" everybody who was on line at the time also started wondering about what was happening. Eventually gro gave in and created another topic, detailing how anybody could do it:

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install https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/
forms --> convert select elements to text inputs, after you are on your profile editing page.
yes, it really is that boring.there are other ways to do it, butwebdev makes it FAR easier.

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