[b]Heather's Camp June 22, 2011 - June 28, 2011[/b] A Bnet user by the name of AmX15 posted a thread asking for the support of his Aunt's summer camp for the blind. The camp was entered into a contest sponsored by Pepsi where the winner received $25,000 towards expenses. The turnout was impressive, raising Heather's Camp from 15th to 1st place in just a few days. Shortly after the creation of the thread, the original was determined to break the rules and was locked. Once again, the flood gathered in mass to support the locked thread. Lead by the user elmicker, other threads promoting the event and demanding to know why the original was locked began to appear. Through the persistence of the community, the support of site administration, and the open hearts of the mod team, the second thread was allowed to remain open. Heather's Camp finished the competition in first place. During all this, the founder of Heather's Camp made a couple posts on the forum thanking everyone for their efforts, and stating that if the camp makes it into the top five, she would have a plaque made in the flood's honor that would forever hang in the camp. To this day, it is not known if the plaque exists. [b]Halo Reach - Flood Forum War Summer 2011[/b] During the end of the summer of 2011, the Halo Reach forums began to attack the flood posting halo Reach related topics in the Flood forums. The Flood organized and retaliated against them, posting troll threads on the Halo Reach forums. At one point the entire first page of the Halo Reach threads was all locked for what the ninjas called, "organized spam". Many Floodians were banned. [b]Recon Number 54 Bans Himself September 6, 2011[/b] On this day, Recon Number 54 created a thread entitled "Teacher fired for being a former pr0nz star" in which he presented a news article about how a teacher was fired from his job for being a porn star years earlier. It was on only the second page that one member by the alias "william ian" stated that Recon Number 54 should be banned for bypassing the profanity filter. Not long after, a handful of other members joined forces with william ian and Recon Number 54 subsequently left the following post: Fine. I'll ban myself for a week (in a couple of minutes so someone can see/quote this). Just for the sake of integrity. Happy? That fact that Recon Number 54 banned himself caused worry, fear, lulz, and WTFs for many members. Bobcast Become A Meme October 3, 2011 User Swat EXP creates a thread entitled "Bobcast is now a meme!". This thread resulted in dozens of member-created memes using Bobcasts avatar and silly quotes. [b]Clockman January 12, 2012[/b] Commander Santa on the 12th of January (or the 1st of December, can't tell with British/US dates) at a quarter to nine posted a thread that lasted 74 pages and even became a pinned topic (top poster as evidence) that involved hundreds of members, several Universities and other outside sources searching for a character in an animation that scared him as a child, who he could remember as "clockman" that turned out to be a troll thread. He last edited it nine days later, and never returned to the thread to see the result of one of the best (if not the best) troll threads of 2012. [b]The Last Thread of The Flood January 8, 2013[/b] The user Simse11 creates the last thread on the old bungie.net. It was titled "Has below radar been changed in BF3?" The world will never know. [b]Three-Day Read-Only January 8 - 10, 2013[/b] Almost immediately after Simse11 posted his thread on Battlefield 3, the Bungie Web Team set the entire site to Read-Only Mode for almost three days as they prepared the site for the Bungie.net Beta. While this affected they entire site and not just The Flood, The Flood were most affected by the downtime as they are the most active members on the forums. [b]The .Nextopolypse January 10, 2013[/b] This day the entirety of Bungie.net was redesigned with a new look and tons of new features. Along with the update, all of the forums were merged, thus beginning the Flood Crisis of 2013. Many groups were created in attempt to emulate the Old Flood, and are still battling for superiority to this day. The Flood has become somewhat similar to Japan during the Boshin War, when the entire country was divided and battling for control. [b]Reunification of The Flood January 11, 2013[/b] After a brief conflict between the newly created bungie.next groups "The Flood: Off Topic" and "The Flood Reincarnated", the Flood was reunified under the renamed group, "The Flood". In just a little more than a day, the Flood managed to do two things it has never done: avoid an all-out Civil War, and compromise. Members who played major roles in this include: MyNameIsCharlie and Aeia. [b]Mass Exodus January 2013[/b] Upset with the new layout and tagging system that came with the new website update, the Flood saw its largest rage-quit in the site's history. Though the exact number of people are unknown to anyone but Bungie themselves, seemingly hundreds of people stormed off the site stating that the new layout destroyed the natural flow of conversation, and that many of the types of threads people used to enjoy would no longer be possible. Since this event, some people began returning with the revamp of the forum structure, only to see that groups are dead and use that as an excuse to storm off again. [b]The Flood Enters the Wild-Wild-West January, 2013 - January, 2014[/b] With the new website update came a near complete freedom in regards to rules. The old moderation system was scrapped for a new "create your own experience" filtering system. As a result, moderators became more "members of the community" than the scary ninjas of years past. The members chose to exercise that new-found freedom by creating one of the darkest periods in Flood history. Threads that incited hate among other members and outright bigotry began popping up all over the forum. It became common to openly call out other members of the community, bash other people's religious, political, or sexual preferences all with little consequence. During this time, it was far more common to find an argument than a discussion on this forum and many of the older members of the community began begging for a tighter rule set. [b]Last to Post March 19, 2013 - ??[/b] In April of 2014, a member by the name of Plasma Eagle creates a thread titled “First to post wins”. Little did he know that his simple thread would create a monster so big and popular, people are still posting in it to this day. For, in retaliation to Eagle’s thread, a member named Mr Comics would make a thread of his own titled [url=http://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/60050775/0/0] “Last to post wins”. [/url]Primarily fueled by Plasma Eagle’s refusal to “lose”, this thread will go on to exceed 5, 300 posts at the time of this writing and shows no sign of slowing any time soon. What can I say? Sometimes the flood enjoys a challenge. [b]Floof/Offtopite April 2013 - ??[/b] Shortly after Bungie’s latest site update, some people began to search for names to call the shitty new “Offtopic” community. While many felt that, despite the name change, this community will always be the Flood.. some of the newer members began to seek out their own names and do away with the “floodian” tradition. In response, the term “floof” began to circle through the community. Earliest found use of this term comes from user [url=http://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/61859162/0/0]Ch33zyburrito[/url] on April 11, 2013. Soon after, another group of people decided to start using the term “offtopite”. This is believed to be more of a troll than anything because of the massive push used to try to get the community to adopt it. Ultimately, both terms faded after a while and the tradition of the “floodian” returned. [b]Lonepaul’s Fishy Tale December 19, 2013[/b] In December of 2013, the member [url=http://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/63039412]lonepaul2441[/url] spins a tale of young love. More than happy to brag about having a pair of young teenage girls wanting his affections, lonepaul quickly finds himself in damage control mode as the flood begins to question his own age. And like a truly gullible fellow.. he informs the flood that he is in his mid-twenties. It’s at this point that the flood begins to turn his tale of boastful conquest into a fight to convince everyone he’s not actually a pedophile. But have you ever tried to convince the flood of anything? Didn’t turn out too well, did it? Soon, lonepaul was forced to edit the OP of the thread resulting in several of the members trying to recreate it as best they could. More accusations of pedophilia ensued, and eventually, lonepaul disappeared into the internet for several months before returning. So what’s the moral of this story, kids? If you’re gonna brag on the flood.. make sure it doesn’t involve under age girls. [b]The Return of the Ninjas January 15, 2014[/b] In January of 2014, Deej posted a new code of conduct for the site. The CoC brought a tighter rule set to the forums, yet still allowed for more freedom than B.old ever saw. Moderators are now back in their rightful place are the authoritarian overlords they were intended to be. The Flood saw a near overnight change in quality as a result. [b]The Brief Floodfic Revival February – July 2014[/b] Beginning with an epic tale of flood shenanigans, the member exploding piglets created a multi-part story called “The PAX Disaster” which spanned 20 posts and garnered hundreds of replies. Shortly after The PAX Disaster begins, the member Officer Nasty adds his hilarious offering titled [url=http://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/63546072]“Attack of the Alts”. [/url]This sparks a brief, yet glorious couple of months where floodfics once again fill our bellies with laughter.