How did you discover SS13?

[69andahalf]

That makes me wonder, what's the biggest controversy that goon has ever had?

Also, how has goon managed to seemingly avoid so much controversy? Is it because it spawned from Something Awful, as opposed to something like 4chan? Is it because it stayed closed source? Is is because of something else?

Probably not too controversial, but Gibbed used to have a fairly bad reputation for being fairly "offensive". Honestly, it was probably because the staff was younger than they are today, and grew out of it, but Gibbed used to be kinda sketchy sometimes. Usually it was just racial stereotypes, such as the black man eating KFC and dancing gif, or the "that's racist" gifs. I don't want to come off as overly stickler, but I don't think any of those would be seen on the station today. There was a fair bit of autism name calling as well, generally in adminhelp and on the forums which scared a lot of people off from playing on gibbed. The forums in particular used to be very toxic, especially the ban appeals. I always remember admins setting people's avatars to fairly offensive images that would probably scare anyone off from trying to be part of the community again. At one point I believe the wiki was even called "autistic powers". There was certainly a different admin team compared to who we have today, and Wonk has done a lot to improve the reputation of LLJK and keep the admin very professional.

I should also mention that Gibbed wasn't terrible all the time, some of the best events where held back in the glory days of #3 and #4, but the server has changed much for the better.

If i'm digging up too much of the past and an admin wants to edit, clarify or delete this post, they can feel free too. I also hope that this post doesn't degrade into "how was Gibbed in the past", but I guess i'm not really helping.