I've been 6 years; that's a long fucking time. I got here a month following the big site crash and restart in 2006, and everything was in total chaos. Ridiculous spam, advertising everywhere; I feel proud to have been one of the mods that helped clean this place up into the site it is today.
Here are a few of the standout moments that I remember...
- The E-Wedding between Will and Becca. What a clusterfuck that was; I remember Moon Knight looting their E-house before I burned it down.
- The creation of the E-fed. The E-fed that existed before WZCW was deleted due to its mods exposing sensitive information from out board room on another site. Technically speaking Big Ace and Downward Spiral were the first Fed Heads, Jonny being the ultimate Fed Head even though he never RP'd, with Prax and I coming in later.
The first show was great as it marked the only time in WZCW history that the number of characters controlled by site staff outnumbered the regular members at least 3 to 1.
- Another great memory was the creation of the Prison; even though I was against it at first, it as provided more funny drama than almost anything else on the site, from classic prisoners like Oncewalker to epic one's like Sidious.
Drama within the WZCW got so bad at one point that a number of members were thrown in prison. Those of you that think Talon's bad, thank fuck you weren't here for Senior Coconut. His actions and others nearly got WZCW condemned.
- The WZ Exclusives. Classic, Classic, Classic. Our gracious overlord Chris Cash [Sly's Boss] worked a deal to bring a number of wrestling personalities to the site. Among them were Disco Inferno, Kevin Kelly, and Konnan. Disco and Kelly were awesome and answered our questions, but Konnan was basically a dick to everyone; it got so bad that Xfear took it upon himself to mess with him hardcore. I wish to God that I had saved a copy of that gay lover's sign he had made with him and Konnan. Funniest thing on the forums ever.
When Paul Bearer never showed up to the site Shocky changed his name and masqueraded as him for a while. He had people legitimately convinced that fucking William Moody Paul Bearer was a moderator on our site.
- The most infamous thing I've ever seen here was the creation of the special VIP room which only certain elite members and staff were allowed to use. There were absolutely no rules at all, you could even post porn if you wanted to. We probably had a 50 threads just on porn within the first few days. That room nearly killed both the bar room and the non wresting non spam sections because everyone who had access to the VIP spent most of their time in there.
I've got many more, but those are stand outs.