MFGGU

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A visual representation (before delmore left)

MFGGU stands for MFGG Underground. It is a community created by Mugenmidget and Delmore. Currently it is run by Mugenmidget and Cutman due to personal problems Mugenmidget had with Delmore, resulting with a banning.

About

The mission of MFGGU is to provide a idiot-free community for a collection of friends at MFGG who are tired of the drama and idiocy caused by noobs, morons and certain members of the staff at MFGG.

Although it bears the name "MFGG" it is not a forum specifically created to discuss Mario, fangames or Mario fangames. The only reason it is labeled MFGGU is because it contains most people who have migrated over from MFGG, who were/are a part of their community. Despite the namesake, MFGGU seeks to become its own community, an entity separate from MFGG.

MFGGU maintains a veil of secrecy from those it does not want to accept into the community. Accounts must be individually approved before they are given access to the majority of the forum. For this reason, MFGGU is often accused of purposely hiding conspiracy and hearsay.

The end of the Playpen

On September 23rd, unofficial members would find that the forum has been removed. This includes the Dupe School and Bizarro sections of the playpen. The funbyss remains but is still password protected. As such, members registering to the U could no longer prove themselves in order to be allowed on the U. "Official" MFGGU members may post that they approve such members based on what they know of their behavior at other forums such as MFGG.

When Joey was demodded from MFGG and finally left, MFGGU celebrated by reopening the playpen.

A continuous debate

MFGGU is commonly seen as a negative forum despite having a strong sense of community and a large amount of followers.

Various discussions have made their way into the PPP or General Chat regarding the U and MFGG and is usually a constant debate over which forum is greater (or worse). The discussion often becomes heated quickly until the threads are locked and members banned for flaming each other and/or bringing up an outside dispute.

Instances such as Nightwing's "dupe school", a forum on MFGGU set up on September 5th of 2007 to give information/tips on how to thoroughly set up a duplicate account, as well as nothing but negative articles on MFGGU's wiki about MFGG members, making it a form of an Encyclopedia Dramatica aimed towards MFGG, do not help to relieve the animosity between both of the communities.

These arguments led to the forum's nickname of "The Cancer". Those against MFGGU use the nickname to refer to the board's negative impact on MFGG, while MFGGU members mockingly use it to ridicule anti-U members.

Closure

On February 19th, 2008, MFGGU and its wiki were closed for good as a result of the events of The Great Crash of '08.