For Historical Purposes

I was recently contacted about HOPE. The person poking me about it had been asked for information about it by someone who was apparently a member (even running it supposedly, during a period when Adara was offline) at one time, but had never heard much of the controversy that surrounded it. I've never heard of this person, and am somewhat sceptical of the claim due to the time period (late 99, 2000) since I was still involved in it until January or February 2000, but that's really not the point of this post.

I've gone back through my journal and found all posts referring to HOPE, including some which directly cite posts on Elven Realities and other forums that show exactly what was going on at that time and present concrete proof of the history of HOPE, archived in locations I have no control over and which are a matter of public record. I've tagged them appropriately, so now if you want to read them all you have to do is click on the h.o.p.e. tag in this post. This is all I really feel inclined to do, in the interest of history, regarding HOPE. I'm not going to write my account over again, I just don't have the energy anymore and frankly I have other concerns besides HOPE that I would prefer to make a priority at this time. So I've provided this one pointer to the historical material, to satisfy people's questions, and that's it.

On a much brighter note, I fucking LOVE the tag system. Kudos to livejournal for implementing it, I plan to make extensive use of it in the future. I'd just like the limits for each tag to be removed, and then it would be pretty much perfect.

Edit: I think I might have missed a few entries in my initial search-and-tag, will go back and add them as time allows.