First time poster, recent lurker. Herro there. Forgive my english, I am not a native English speaker, unfortunately.

My fandom, Rockman.EXE, is part of a bigger fandom (Rockman) which is overall peaceful, but we get wank from time to time. Um, make that "all the time". There's this board called Rockman.EXE Online Forums, a very popular place for the discussion of Rockman.EXE anime, manga, and games. One of the mods, Core Xion, reported an MSN group hotlinking to a bunch of sprites from REOF users, and encouraged everyone to report all stolen sprites in a respectful manner. Then, big surprise, there's more than a bunch of hotlinked sprites; some users spot stolen fanart, wallpapers, info... the whole site itself is made out of stolen material.

Obviously, everyone wants the group to burn, which leads to a very angry mob that would use torches on the thieves if the internet allowed it. REO's site owner, Ryouko, reports the thievery on REO's update page and encourages everyone to spam away. A lovely piece of wank ensues. While many want to killmaimburndestroy the hotlinkers, there's a small group telling the others to calm down and use their brains before spamming away.

REOF's admin Izumi warns everyone at the General forum. The first two posts talk about flaming them, but Anime Master ZERO provides the wank by announcing his "Plan Z": hacking the group admin's e-mail accounts and use them in order to post hentai pictures. osiris_sky_dragon chimes in and points to an old msngroup incarnation of MegamanChile, a site known on this side of the fandom as "those fanart stealers". Saito Rockman and RyuuKouOu knock some common sense on the flamers</a>. And it keeps going.

While on the MSN group itself, the angry mob has unleashed its wrath using the message boards, particularly the general forum. The admin decides the best approach to the wave of flamers is to ignore them and delete/ban them. He probably deleted all Nice try.