Forums
Public forums include:
* Hambil Nation - A forum devoted to Troll Kingdom member Hambil.
* The Tea Room - A forum for off-topic, generally light-hearted threads.
* Blame Sardy! - A forum devoted to Troll Kingdom member Sardonica.
* The Skinofevil Fan Club and Campaign Headquarters - A forum devoted to Troll Kingdom member skinofevil
* Speak Freely - A forum created under the BBS' insistance upon freedom of speech.
* The Godforsaken Hell Holes - The most popular forum on Troll Kingdom. While it features "trolling tactics" and discussion of all bulletin boards, it is primarily devoted to complaining about the TrekBBS, where there is often talk of grand plans to infiltrate the moderator teams and divide the forum membership.
* TK Media Center - A forum for television, movie, and other entertainment discussion.
* TK Trading Post - A forum designed to facilitate the trading of physical posessions between Troll Kingdom members.
* The Digital Abyss - A forum for discussion of computers and other consumer electronics.
* Wrasslin' - A forum devoted to wrestling.
* Politics and Religion - A forum for the discussion of politics and religion.
* Boi's TKarma Whorehouse - A forum designed to facilitate the trading of "TKarma points" between members.
* Mine Field - A forum infamous for booby trapped threads and other things generally avoided on bulletin boards.
* The TK Day Care Center For the Feeble Minded - Though created mostly to stop the duals of forum member Soma from overtaking the board as a whole, this forum is an introductions forum where each new forum member is 'locked' until being approved by the Troll Kingdom administration.
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History
Troll Kingdom was formed when a group of TrekBBS members grew increasingly frustrated with what they perceived was a heavy-handed treatment of free speech by the moderators. After many of these members were banned, they formed their own BBS, calling it "Troll Kingdom," a forum without rules.
Troll Kingdom has gone through two incarnations. The first was started as an ezBoard community by forum member Red Whacker, and was primarily a science fiction discussion board. The only 'bannable' offense was 'whinning.' It is currently believed that only a member named Castek was banned under this rule.
Like many bulletin boards, Troll Kingdom collapsed due to a lack of membership. The board soon returned with MissManners as an administrator, and featured a section called "TrekBBS Exposed." This section is widely regarded as the only success of Troll Kingdom, and is a complete archive of all threads in the TrekBBS' private moderator-only forum, The Briefing Room. The hosting of this archive resulted in TrekBBS administration establishing a moratorium on discussion of Troll Kingdom. The actual fallout from the expose was minimal, as the threads were not as damning of the moderating staff of the TrekBBS as most suspected them to be. Most TrekBBS moderators stated that they did not care who saw the threads because they were not ashamed of anything they posted.
On Sunday, May 30th, 2004, a hacker named C0NIk appeared to have hacked Troll Kingdom in what appeared to be a favor to member FeFe Roissey. The site was offline for approximately a week. Rumors persist that the hacking was simply a stunt to draw membership.
Today, Troll Kingdom is visited by many regular members of the TrekBBS, including some of the moderating staff.
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