I know that chrispminis has been with this site for a very long time and has been consistently active. He might be the best to chime in here...

I've been here for...holy crap, three years now. My anniversary was three days ago. :)

I remember a notable banning/drama being before diplomat, but for the life of me cannot remember the screen name.

I'm so oooold.

Also, I think you're referring to the infamous Edi-bomb, unfortunately named after Edi Birsan, who really doesn't deserve to have his name attached to the incident. I can't remember the guy's name, maybe if we had named the flooding after the perp and not Edi we would remember. I think it started with a T. =P

Oh, no, I meant when Edi left the site. I remembered there being an enormous hullabaloo when he joined and pulled some magnificent performances. I've always thought that the Edi-bomb was poorly named, especially since it'd been used so often before he joined.

hmmm...for some reason I was thinking it started with a "J". I would know it if I heard it though...

There was SmartJason. He was a big one.

That was him! SmartJason. He might have been the original douche on here.

Only been here for a year and a half i believe. I had never heard of Rait. The whole hall of fame points scoring isn;t really used anymore. its more so based upon Ghost Ratings

SJ was well before that: by march '08 he was a reformed character.
I think the flood was Tarablus but not sure that the ending's correct. Again this would have been less than a year ago.

Well, really its been same old. New and old multi's surface every now and then, generally its quite good, and the community continues to gently change.
Saying that, if those are your last memories I would have said you've been gone more than a year - could have sworn Edi left over last summer.

http://Olidip.net is the site to look at for new variants, with a community stocked mainly from here, as the site owner managed & encoded most of the variants into webDip format.
Yes Chris you're old, the amoeba to my dinosaur :)

Has to be more than a year he's been gone. I joined 14 months ago and I've always known it as webdiplomacy.net

For a while at the changeover both addresses were used, then with phpDiplomacy forwarding to this one.

Also, sorry I'm a day late, but:

HAPPY 4th WEBDIPLOMACY BIRTHDAY CHRIS!!!!!

So, two years on this site. HOLY...

If there was a history book for webdiplomacy.net the first chapter would belong to me.

Speaking of Edi Birsan...if anyone can explain what in the hell he did this game...wow

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=6419#gamePanel

Yorkshire Pudding :D
A good way for England to show non-aggression towards both France and German.

Second thoughts: Took over a CD nation

also there was a CD russia which kinda spoiled it, but that is a fairly awesome english performance...

"HAPPY 4th WEBDIPLOMACY BIRTHDAY CHRIS!!!!! "

Holy crap, it's been that long.

Re: Yorkshire pudding - Edi like to take over CD nations and turn them around.

Was it SmartJason that kept on coming back and multiaccounting and I scared him off by finding a whole bunch of personal information about him to show him that his antics online had real consequences?

Chris: I think it was. I remember seeing those messages once in a spurt of procrastination.

I feel like I joined the the site just as it started to really take off in numbers.

Is SmartJason still on the site? I hear that Diplomat is, albeit much calmer on the forums.

that was a very impressive takeover, anyone would have to admit ...

RAIT was a great player cant believe he is gone...or hasnt played in awhile

the only scandal i can rememeber was small. bearstein or whatever his name was. see i don't even remember his name

Rait hasn't been active in a long time. He was on hiatus before I joined.

Bearnstein was one of my favorites. Especially when he made all those bear-themed accounts and then people like Ursa were worried they'd be banned, too.

Bearnstein was shortly after my hiatus ended and I returned in full force. I remember his threads on the forum for a few days, and going "what the hell...kids these days"

I'm going to butcher his name, but what about Siof as Kleens? He was by far my favorite poster. Like obi times 1000.

Yeah, Rait was very impressive. I think he held the all time Ghost Rating for a while, but you didn't need GR to see that he was an incredibly strong player.

Sioraf as Killeens! Man, what happened to that guy. He used to maintain a ridiculous blog expounding his adventures with internet diplomacy. Seriously, when obi burst on the scene I couldn't help but notice the resemblance.

Ah, the memories...

Well, I can tell you one thing that's cropped up more and more over time that the site didn't start out with:

"This Time On Philosophy Weekly..."

:p

@Chris - No it wasn't.
And I'm pretty sure that person still follows the site, since I banned some accounts matching his style.

SJ - Not to the best of my knowledge, but I haven't tried very hard to look. Certainly his legit account is still here, albeit inactive.