Yeah, the Souper Sekret forum episode was interesting. Essentially, once upon a time, there was an OOT secret journal, where certain posters went to mainly ***** about how mean the Asylumites were, and how awful a certian admin was for not banning all the asylumites for being mean to them. This was in the Magi era, so certain misconceptions were being fostered that were not necesarily healthy or true. In this secret journal forum, massive rate up circles were occuring, and users were going from sub scholar to guru in a short period of time. Of course we noticed it and yelled at them, which didn't help the them being hostile to a certain admin issue, especially since Magi was telling them it was OK apperently. So anyways, at some point the asylumites figure out what is going on and decide to start their own secret forum, where they also did some karma shenanigans briefly, before they were told those would also be reversed, back when you could essentially insta create a forum by making forum=whateveryouwanted in the forum URL. so Forum=Sanctuary was born. Not all the people posting in the Asylum were told about forum=sanctuary, though most of them eventually figured it out, especially given that it showed up on forum search and people kept using the word sanctuary cryptically to be amusing enough that even the more dense individuals eventually picked up on it. The few that didn't were rather pissed at being excluded, mainly the poster "youshutup" so he made it his mission to expose that forum, which we were basically ignoring from a moderation standpoint since the asylum didn't have many rules to begin with. Hijinks ensued, etc. It was amusing to watch.
There were a number of other similar magnitude occurances I didn't include in the interests of space. Various angry hippo meltdowns, the entire Deleron saga, Tormentcia vs all the other Asylum female posters at one point or another, Me hijacking Thundra's main account and all 47 sockpuppets in a single instance via the "yarmulke" incident and then having fun with it until Allakhazam asked me give the main account back, The first ever Allakhazam transgendered individual coming out in an asylum thread, Grady's frog, Tacosid vs. the N.A.M., Shadowbania, The worlds first ever "Last" forum game The EQ flamewar days (1 AC is worth 1,000 HP debate, Gbaji vs everyone essentially)
Though much of the previous forums are lost from the old UBB forums, I have collected some of the remaining memorable ones in a thread in my journal.
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/journal.html?user=4491&mid=114533705572534025 Many of those were only important to me, but there are some gems in there of old if you go digging.