Posted By pinkyNarfanek on DDMSpoilers on 06/02/2007 3:52 PM

For Informational Purposes Only (I'm keeping this as general as possible as to not start the debate here, please honor that intent.)

About a year ago, there were many problems with the maxminis database. Crashes were constant due to the strain of all the posting and the new members. jai had been the "head guru" at the time and was having difficulty contacting webmaster (aka host). Anyway, jai and ktatroe started talking about merging hordelings (which many folks thought had the superior trade system) with maxminis (which had the lion's share of posting and access to the "top player minds" of DDM).

Talk went back and forth, back and forth for some time about the possible merger. webmaster was nowhere to be found. The talk of the merger eventually got the notice and support of a fair section of the community (well, a lot of the post heavy members anyway). About this time, webmaster shows back up, locks out jai (perhaps intentionally, perhaps as part of work that he was doing) and makes a lot trimming of the database.

Things get said, accusations are made. On both sides of the issue. Hordelings gets a lot of updates, Maxminis gets a lot of updates. A lot of folks take personal offense to the things being said at one location or the other, other folks get moderatorships handed to them (in what could like a "bribe" to keep them at a particular site). A lot of posters "choose" one site or the other and make that their home. Some posters bounce between the two and don't take sides (or at least try that until something happens and they decide that one site "fits" better than the other).

That puts us roughly where we are today.

I think that's the basics of it. There are a couple threads on Hordelings about it--just search for "Schism" and you should probably get a good start to finding them.