A Wanker Is You!
Background: Kingdom of Loathing is a browser-based online RPG. Despite the general silly tone and black-and-white stick figure drawings, it's a fairly complicated game, perpetually in development. Player characters don't actually meet each other in the world like in MUDs, but there is limited interaction with other players, such as throwing bricks at them, TP'ing their house (or tent), and also using certain buffing skills. Unusually for an online game, botting is not frowned upon, and there are many buffbots. The most famous of them is - was - Kingdom of Buffing (henceforth KoB), notable for being widely used, completely free (and not just low-costing), and possessing a convenient Web interface.

The juicy stuff: it starts with a post in the forums, pointing out that KoB is not responding to requests for buffs, and hoping its maintainer, Kinks, will fix it soon. But as the silence stretches, someone wonders if the bot was taken down due to "the Wiki drama".

Links are posted to the "Buffbot" talk page on KoLWiki, as well to an archived version of Kinks' Talk page. The picture emerges of a spat between Wiki admins and Kinks, which may or may not have resulted in the latter taking his ball and going home.

Back on the forum, some accusations are thrown at the Wiki admins for "taking away the best buffbot ever", some people think taking down the bot may have been overreacting a bit, but in the end most posts are either thanks to Kinks for all his hard work, or attempts to organise a new buffbot to fill in the void. There are still some wanky nuggets to be found in the thread if you take the time to look.