The tide of spam recedes, and the community returns to (relative) peace. This time, specific members of the community are chosen to act as moderators, given the power and the responsibility to shape the sub-forum according to their desires. The community's primary socialization locale is destroyed and completely remade.New Off-Topic Arc (Late 2010 - Early 2011).The heroes are divided into different camps as they debate what to do about the constant threat of spam. The spam level rises out of control, and the community realizes that something has to be done, and soon.The conflict brings out the worst in our heroes as they try to deal with it in their own ways, struggling against both the spammers and their own rash instincts. The spam level of the forum rises as a result and establishes itself as a credible threat to stability. Eee and kacpero join and generally cause chaos, and other spammers follow in their wake.Spam Attack Arc (Late 2009 - Early 2010).
They also start making actual contributions to the forum in the form of games/levels.
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Stuff that happened before most of the current protagonists joined.This also doesn't cover the whole of PCPuzzle history, just the part I and most of the other Epigamers were there for.)
(Note: I'm using the terms "protagonist" and "hero" to make this sound like more of an interesting story Real Life doesn't usually have clear-cut main characters, heroes, and villains, obviously. Trying to come up with ideas for the main story arcs on PcPuzzle, for use on the tropes page.