White's Lair

Whitearachnia's Lair was the third step in its users, who'd migrated from IMDB[1] and through the WarRoom[2], becoming the "SCOTTers" as their dopplegangers from KOT[4] call them. But it is viewed really as the first, IMDB being just a melting pot and the WarRoom just a strainer that filtered out everything leaving us with many of the users we still have today, and attracting quite a few new faces. So, though IMDB and the WarRoom came first, White's Lair was the first step in the process of cultivating the familiar personas that we see making up one half of the FWNN[5].

White's Lair, when first opened and established, suffered from a lack of activity. There were but a few users that were actively trying to keep the site running, and there were many more Admins there than there were at any of the other sites. It seemed, for a great while, that the Admins were the only people posting on the site and that there were "Too many chiefs and not enough indians." It was frequented by many trolls, spammers, and bots; even causing the site to shut its doors for a while to filter through possible potential users. This act was viewed in two lights, Good or Bad. There was no grey area there. Current users wouldn't be put off by constant Trolling but new users would be hard to come by because of the strict membership procedures. All in all, until things quieted down, it was a very tenative time for its loyal users.

Once things quieted down and the Admins, the majority of the active and frequent users, could focus on advertising they did so tirelessly. Adds were sent on Facebook, IMDB, Myspace, even playing the infamous "Omegle" game. It was successful, if only slightly, in that a few new faces came along. Most of which didn't stick around for very long, but a few are still with us. They were rough times, no doubt, the site that was meant for recreation and enjoyment seeming more like a job. The Admins came up with a few novel concepts, such as streaming banners across the bottom with a featured writer, RPG, or active thread... But there weren't enough users for it to make any difference. It was durring this time that the Admins played with the console, learned how to use it quite well, and tried their hands at coming up with new designs and skins.

Though eventually the place was deemed more of a transitory place, a learning experience. It was from here that the users created their next site, "The Hotel SCOTT"[6]. When the users shifted it signified a new begining, and it was around this time that "Blackarachnia's Lair" was closed for good, some of its users finding their way to THS.

NOTE: Up until the deletion incident White's Lair was used, and still frequented, as an Archive.