A Reddit post from 2012 by a user claiming to be a long-time lurker paints it as a tight-knit but fading space, plagued by unmoderated troll posts that admins struggled to cull due to low activity. The same user floated the idea of reviving it with modern tweaks like email registration and hate speech rules, suggesting the original was a free-for-all that got messy.

I have no proof of this, but I think maybe it just keyed onto my announcement of musicbabble.net on Reddit and made up the 2012 post? It’s easier for me to believe that it hallucinated a post from 2012 about the specific recommendations of “no hate speech” and “email registration required” than that musicbabble.net poetically fulfilled that person’s dream.