Pointless Post Palace

Overview

The Pointless Post Palace (Often abbreviated to PPP) was the original forum in the Fun Stuff section of the boards. The forum is decicated entirely to spam, off-topic posting, and general thoughtlessness. Barring prunings, it is the largest section of the message board.

Around August of 2005, it became so large that the database of Mario Fan Games Galaxy was on the verge of collapse as a whole, and would sacrifice the entire board. Thankfully, Retriever II painfully reconstructed and patched the database, but the Palace had to be trimmed down to less than 20% of its original size.

The PPP is a controversial forum. Many people believe it should be removed to "decrease the stupidity" usually seen on the boards. However, others argue that the deletion of the PPP may cause an unwanted backwash of spam into other forums. Sometimes the PPP gets its own "spam," usually from the Help and Arts boards. Said "spam" is usually posted in the PPP because it is extremely active.

Name Changes/Events

Ravioli Time.

The PPP has had many name changes throughout it's lifespan, usually due to an admin's boredom, or because of a certain event that was happening at the time. One of the more popular name changes involved the Walrus sprite from the CD-i game "Super Mario's Wacky Worlds". The Walrus was present in the description of the PPP, and was changed so that it resembles a ghost and zombie form before being removed altogether. Many topics were made regarding this Walrus, and it soon started a fad, however, like most fads in the PPP, it didn't last long. The Walrus PPP name changes occured almost daily during the events of E3 2006 as various information was released. The PPP is also frequently renamed Hell, with the banner and background altered to reflect the name change.

Recently the Forum Games forum was combined with the PPP causing a slight uproar among a few of the less-popular members. What's done is done though; now, members who still wish to participate in forum games must mark "[forum game]" as the description of any of their game-related topics so that PPP-frequents don't spam them up.

Here is a list for name changes the PPP went through:

• Pointless Post Pallace
• Walrus
• Pointless Post SATAN SATAN SATAN SATAN SATAN
• Ravioli Time
• Mike Jones Post Palace
• I AM A POINTLESS POST PIRATE
• U CAN'T POST THIS
• ZION, THE WAR IS OVER
• Paintless Post Palace
• Sub-Forum Really Secret Forum
• Pointless Toast Palace

Pointless Post Pallace

For a long period back in the EZBoard days, the "Palace" part of the PPP was spelt incorrectly, having to "ls" instead of the usual one. Of course, this was in the early period of MFGG where typos and spelling mistakes were quite common.

Pointless Post SATAN SATAN SATAN SATAN SATAN

Pointless Post SATAN SATAN SATAN SATAN SATAN was one of the epic PPP name changes made by ShadowMan in honor of having 666 pages in the PPP.

Mike Jones Post Palace

Mike Jones Post Palace was a PPP name change that had an embed music in the background with Mike Jones saying all of the Mike Jones he said.

ZION, THE WAR IS OVER

ZION, THE WAR IS OVER is another name change. The background image was World War II and the background music was Queen's We Are The Champions.

Paintless Post Palace

The Paintless Post Palace was another epic PPP name change. It only had a picture saying "Never forget. 3/28".

Land of the Hoff

On May 29, 2007, ShadowMan replaced RII's "Road Work Ahead" sign at the top of the page with pictures of David Hasslehoff. Soon, he multiplied them, and they began to overlap every thread in the the PPP. Many MFGGers were very annoyed as ShadowMan made it so that you could not see the threads or even reply. A few minutes later it was stopped, but then it came back for another few minutes and after for a while it said Land of the Hoff. Even though the "Road Work Ahead" sign remained a few days after the Hoff change had gone, many believed that the Hoff change was the "road work".

Closure

On December 16, 2006, the Pointless Post Palace was closed "until further notice as a result of general douchebaggery". It has currently been closed for three days, the longest of any closure since its conception. Since it was closed, other areas in the forum, particularly the General Chat, saw an increase in activity.

The PPP has also been temporarily closed off as a result of forum pruning (See Stupidity Discharge and Pointless Supernova). It has also exploded before now.

PPP Today

On the 22nd of June 2007 the layout of the forum was completely changed, and the PPP was not left out. Whereas it is mostly the same as before, it is now under moderation by specific PPP Moderators; Tragic, Black Squirrel and Jas, as well as the usual Global Moderators and Administrators. The aim is to prevent spam and un-worthy topics, which are now moved into the read-only forum, Worthless Post Palace (WPP). Also, the "Fun Stuff" section has been renamed "The Dungeon".