The Great Mistake
The Great Mistake was a controversial event occuring on February 18, 2008, during which the entire forum was deleted by Cutman. It was restored within a few days by the server administrator Retriever II, using a backup.
The Great Mistake ultimately resulted in Jas' resignation as administator and destroyed MFGGU, which Cutman had co-founded.
Proceedings
Jas, who allegedly wished only to temporarily disable the CCC and General Friendliness as a prank, granted administrative status to The Face and Landmaster, giving the relevant account details to Cutman. Bidbood, who would have controlled Landmaster, was not online at the time and missed the event.
Cutman signed onto The Face and deleted all known administrative figures, including Landmaster and Jas. He then changed the board to the April Fool's 2006 prank All About Beards and disabled the great majority of forum features, and removed every board except for the new "HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZEKE".
Jas managed to promote Delmore to administrator before her own removal, allowing him to stealthily delete Cutman and Landmaster. He then replaced HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZEKE with
Please stand by ... Sorry Zeke, I took your cake. ~Delmore
He created a new account for Yoshiman, allowing them to maintain the remaining board while waiting for Retriever II to sign on and upload a backup.
RII announced a revert to a backup from one month previous. While waiting for this backup to complete, Delmore imposed a rule that all posts must contain the word "meatballs". super duper mario opposed this rule greatly, refusing to say the "M word", so Delmore changed his name to "super duper meatballs".
Eventually, the restore completed, returning normal board function.
