>First ed: >>>/christianity/2947
>2013
8chan created by hotwheels in October
>2014:
/christian/ created in September
Alex is the owner. He's a Southern Baptist.
Views on moderation: "I am personally a Baptist, and will defend my views as a poster, but dialogue and points made from other perspectives won't be deleted."
The board reaches 6,000 posts by the end of the year.
>2015
The 8chan site has some outages and breaks in November as development progresses.
/christian/ IRC channel couples the board
Alex remains BO
Board hits 238,000 posts by the end of the year.
/christianity/ created in February
BO cites perception of censorship on /christian/ as the cause.
"I noticed /christian/ had a lot of censorship so I'm starting a new board. I promise not to delete anything simply because I disagree."
Dead board. 154 posts by the end of the year.
/christ/ is created in April. It had some activity prior in 2014, but was somehow deleted or lost and the new first post is 4/19/15.
Rules: "This board is for Christians of all denominations; that being said, people of other religions, agnostics, and atheists, are very welcome to post, ask questions, and debate with us if they so desire. Spam will be deleted. This board is also SFW."
Board log is made available and stickied at top.
The board reaches 8,800 posts by the end of the year.
>2016
/chrisitan/ swaps hands in June. New BO "Peter" is a Catholic who makes a goal of stopping a spam and CP problem the board was facing.
New set of rules at the end of June. Ban policy: 1 day for rule violation, permaban for repeat offenders.
Board log requested, unclear if it is provided.
Unnamed catholic becomes BO in July.
Ezekiel becomes BO in August. Previously the owner of a dead 16chan christian board.
Tutor is a volunteer.
Baptist vs Catholic funposting epidemic begins.
Discord active
366,000 posts by the end of the year
/christ/ changes BO in August to "nazarenefag"
13,00 posts by the end of the year
/christianity/ irrelevant
>2017
/christian/ volunteer roster grows, almost exclusively catholic with one baptist and one presbyterian by July.
Perception of anti Protestant (especially Baptist) bias in moderation present
Tutor (Catholic) becomes BO in September.
Ban policy: "Post that break the rules will be met with temporary bans in accordance with the severity of the post, up to 5 days. Permanent bans will be given out for posting pornography, explicit material, after being given multiple temporary bans, and raids or obvious trolling from other boards."
Log is private. Posts are being deleted from threads.
8ch.net/christian/archive activates in July to preserve threads marked for archival
Rolling politics thread set up to remove political discussion from other threads
board reaches 580,000 posts by the end of the year
/christ/ hits 15,000 posts
/christianity/ still irrelevant
>2018
Tutor remains BO of /christian/
381 Council of Constantinople version of Nicene creed changed to the definition of a Christian
5 day limit for ban removed from ruleset
Catholic bias in moderation becomes inarguable
Flags disabled
750,000 posts by the end of the year
/christ/ has become notorious for gnostic posters
/christianity/ revived
>Early 2019
/christian/ is plagued with heavy handed mods who issue flippant permabans
the issue may be exacerbated because of the sharp rise in popularity of VPNs
board enjoys top 10 traffic among all 8chan boards
owner and volunteers see the discord as a preferred tool to congratulate themselves on how catholic they are, board is ancillary
log still closed
/christ/ has a "saint of the day" stint
/christianity/ becomes an active board
11,000 posts in a number of months
we have a fun game of collecting ban screenshots
>August: 8chan goes down
/christian/ discord has a bitersweet celebration. Become open that they hated the imageboard anyway and were just using it as a funnel to their server.
some boards on altchans pop up
after a some weeks, I start christchannel.xyz
fun bunker. several thousand posts.
has the advantage and disadvantages of not being part of a much larger site with a dedicated userbase
Before the end of the year, 8kun goes live (against hotwheels's best efforts)
/christian/ and /christianity/ automatically migrate
/christianity/ carries on as before with moderation
Old /christian/ BO and vols make the deliberate decision not to return and encourage others to stay away (reasonable advice if they're fearing a honeypot)
/christian/ attracts explicit posts with nobody able to delete
becomes one of the more popular boards on 8kun, higher active ISP count than /christianity/ because of casual posters and some stubborn holdouts with a narrative about /christian/ being catholic and /christianity/ being protestant
/christianity/ eventually dwarfs /christian/ as the larger board
>Early 2020
I am given ownership of /christian/
/christianity/ has new thread creation locked. No more point, the censorship problem is gone on /christian/.
Vols added
logs opened
flags added
rules updated