Noble War

The Noble War is an ongoing conflict between multiple parties in regards to ownership of r/place. The conflict started in July of 2023.

Origins

Lapis and Embed were promoted to website administration in July of 2022, despite being negatively looked at by many. Neither of the two did much to contribute to the game; EnixBR helped fix the game far more than these two people ever did. Lapis is a moderator from Our World of Pixels, effectively making him an insider for r/place. Zekiah claims that he would have immediately demoted both if he was the administrator.

Conflicts

Invasions

Turkey, Visahizm, Apod, etc.

Russian as a banned language

Lapis got on the nerves of many when he introduced his automatic translator bot in August of 2023. The bot initially removed the original message, written in some international language, and translated it into English. Eventually, the bot began being used more maliciously, redirecting all messages to a private channel. Russians were most infuriated by this, notably bringing fuel for the P.A.

Soyjak.party invasion of OWOP

There was a thread published on /soy/ by a teen to raid Your World of Text boards, a common activity on the sharty. The thread got derailed by another teen once those raids were unsuccessful due to protection bots. Teens then fully switched to raiding Our World of Pixels and spammed tnd in the chat, which angered Lapis, causing xhamone to reveal xhamoneself in the chat. One of the teens raiding happened to be Fowlware, so he began confronting Lapis in #general to figure out why Lapis was banning teens including Fowlware himself. Lapis quickly denied any responsibility despite proof saying otherwise.

Yes the wiki is under Soyteen Ownership

Suggestive material drawn on canvas

Throughout the course of this entire conflict, more relaxed moderation on the canvas resulted in numerous pornographic drawings being constructed on the canvas. SelamSS removed most of them. Some users managed to spam the server with these drawings using a strange method: they somehow got the r/place discord bot to output that exact area of the canvas multiple times in various channels.

Zekiah's break

In August 2022, Zekiah left the server due to a conflict with BlobKat.

Scams in the server

Fake gift card/Discord Nitro advertisements were frequently spammed from September to October 2023.

Fowlware made a "@PAJEET DONT NEED REDEEM DA KARD" role and assigned it to all scammers; some of the scammers were likely normal players who got hacked.

CSAM spam in server

In November 2023, multiple users have been joining the server to advertise CP servers and just straight-up spamming CSAM in chat.

The admins, having permissions greater than deleting messages, didn't respond or even notice this for hours on end. Fowlware, SelamSS, and NoNameGuy were forced to manually remove and time out the accounts that spammed the CSAM due to the pinging of administrators being a mutable offense in the server.

The above directly proves that the current BlobKat-led administration cares more about removing Russian messages from #general than deleting literal CP.

Etta confronted Yaref on this topic, but couldn't provide any form of evidence. This led to Taafy, a close friend of Yaref, asking Yaref if she was responsible for the CP spam, which she obviously denied, proving Etta completely wrong once again.

Moderation Conflict

Over the course of the autumn of 2023, moderators have had their permissions reduced greatly, and were unable to perform common moderation actions. Alongside this, there was an AutoMod rule set up to prevent people, even moderators, from pinging the administrators, as a way to "fight ping spam" (which resulted in ping spam getting worse). Bushi set out to establish a reform and was soon doxed by Blob. A random new admin nobody wanted joined and was quickly promoted to server administrator. This "VIP admin" is believed to be Blob's puppet account.

Turkey VIP Key Leak

One Turk paid the website to acquire a VIP key, and then shared his VIP key with a few friends. The newly-formed group then began to construct the largest Turkey flag yet, covering a fourth of the entire canvas.

15.11.23 Battle

The events that led up to this eventually culminated into the original server plunging into total anarchy. It began when someone hacked Zekiah. The malicious actor prompted everyone to spam the #general channel to death, and himself began spam-pinging everyone. Later, this unknown person started giving everyone, including all mods, all server permissions, and prompted everyone to spam the #general channel to death. Fed-up, NoNameGuy deleted most of the channels. Near the end of this conflict, the actor extended his reach to Zekiah's r/place bot, and started mass-banning everyone. Many moderators who spoke up about not being able to deal with this incident in time were demoted. A few other mods who did nothing for the community were also demoted, and, best of all, Lapis and Embed were demoted far (Lapis still has the "Bridge" role, which also has administrator privileges which has yet to be removed).

This battle turned even more people against Blob and his negligent moderation.