The ninth of april, 2012
I was checking what flashes got the daily awards on the eight of april when I saw a chain letter on the first flash I watched. I flagged it, and although I wasn't too interested in my whistle stat, I checked his other reviews as well and found another four or five.
Then I checked the second flash: TWO people posted chain letters. On the first page. Another one on the second page. I flagged them, flagged the other chain letters the users posted and, after watching the flash, moved on to the daily third.
When I saw another two users posting chain letters on that flash I decided to post them all in a news post. This news post.
It won't be a surprise to most of you when I tell you that, within a day, the post got about twenty comments from other people who disliked the chain letters. Some of the comments were hatin' on the chain letters, while others were giving links to the people who posted them.
At the start SCTE3 and Austerity were the ones who posted the most links. The former user also posted links to other abusive reviews.
After about a week the chain letters were banished from the site, hopefully to remain in an eternal slumber. But the abusive reviews didn't stop coming. That's when the real ARPA was born. At first it wasn't called the ARPA yet though, that was an idea of 2016cli, also one of the few users that continued to post abusive links from the start. At the very beginning it was him with SmashLuigiFan1 who posted most of the links. But very shortly afterwards NL-Courage (who is called Chrausner now) and imaTouko-chan started to get interested in the club as well. I happily accepted them, as they were and are great abusive review searchers.
Enough talk about how amazing everyone in this club is. After a while this club became a chatbox as much as it was a dump for abusive reviews. I didn't mind though: I loved chatting to people, even though I hardly knew them. And because I found and sorted abusive reviews, I felt kind of happy and useful at the same time. I think most of the users who are active in this club kind of feel the same way.
Not everyone was happy with this development though. Some users just came here to get free whistle points. Although that's something I wanted as well, it's certainly not what this club was made for. You have to earn your whistle points :).
The review searching, chatting and story telling went on for quite a while. I liked the two months, but was okay with how it ended. I knew that making a thread was against the unwritten rules, but didn't expect a news post to fall under the same category. I understand it though. Sorry if we made it difficult for the moderators!
Well, this is how it ends. Don't stop with searching for abusive reviews, any of you. If you want to chat, feel free to do it. I love it. I can't promise I will always have time though.
Also, Applejack is awesome.
TheMajormel
So far by looking at the things they look at, they are idiot kids. I wish chain letters didn't exist sometimes.
Knuckstrike
True. It does give some easy whistle points though.