25 years here. Started on the 360 boards in 1997, migrated to hornfans around 2000.
Around 2008, I was helping whalecunt with a few routing/chat issues she was having; she complained about her old, slow hardware, and I offered to donate some newer servers I had laying around for DB backend work. She seemed pretty happy about that. Then I went on a work trip, came back to a blinking envelope, and saw I had been banned for having the Lulville cheerleader as my avatar. Whalecunt had laid down her SJW law in a thread I didn't see and was banninating everyone involved, including Bob.
So Bob emailed me, said he was starting a new site and I gave him all the hardware I was gonna give whalecunt. Hopefully it worked for a while. Whalecunt never followed up about the hardware donation she was looking forward to, I guess she just had hundreds of posters offering her thousands in free hardware.
I did my best to PM every decent poster on HF I knew about shaggy until whalecunt and her army of cumguzzling fuckminions shut down PMs.
And now Surly. meh. We lost a lot of good shaggy posters and got invaded by a ton of shitty ones.