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====Flame War====

====Flame War====

Although things started out solid, with very high quality discussions, sometime in late 2000 or very early 2001, a flame war errupted over multiple inane topics, including the inappropriateness of people in the USA selling T-shirts with clan Kamon on them, the "inability" of westerners to "understand" the Japanese or Japanese history, and theories about the possibility of intermarriage between related families within the line of Japanese emperors.  The war was spurred and aggrivated by two particularly bellicose forum goers, and in the resulting explosion most of the members were lost. Few remain today who remember the heady and wild early days of the forum.  Most current members joined in 2001 or later.

Although things started out solid, with very high quality discussions, sometime in late 2000 or very early 2001, a flame war errupted over multiple inane topics, including the inappropriateness of people in the USA selling T-shirts with clan Kamon on them, the "inability" of westerners to "understand" the Japanese or Japanese history, and theories about the possibility of intermarriage between related families within the line of Japanese emperors.  The war was spurred and aggravated by two particularly bellicose forum goers, and in the resulting explosion most of the members were lost. Few remain today who remember the heady and wild early days of the forum.  Most current members joined in 2001 or later.

Unfortunately the forum strings related to the warfare of 2000 were eliminated, and thus lost to history<ref>All flame war related posts were deleted by the moderators in an effort to end further conflict and return the forum to some semblance of normalcy. This decision would come back to haunt them nearly six months later, when C. West and F. Seal ran into both of the agitators on a (now defunct) Delphi Japanese culture forum, and the two agitators yet again began hurling accusations.</ref>.

Unfortunately the forum strings related to the warfare of 2000 were eliminated, and thus lost to history<ref>All flame war related posts were deleted by the moderators in an effort to end further conflict and return the forum to some semblance of normalcy. This decision would come back to haunt them nearly six months later, when C. West and F. Seal ran into both of the agitators on a (now defunct) Delphi Japanese culture forum, and the two agitators yet again began hurling accusations.</ref>.