Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ICB2

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE. All "Do Not Delete" votes are obviously by forum insiders. — JIP | Talk 10:28, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ICB2

Non-notable website. The site does not have enough traffic to generate an Alexa rating.[1] --Allen3 talk 13:43, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

  • Do Not Delete - Our site is pretty well-known. The only problem with a listing on Wikipedia is that users like to post things on here to put down other users, so if we quit doing that, it wouldn't be such a problem...haha -sickmyduck
  • Do Not Delete - The article is actually a good depeiction of the ICB2 and to say that it's irrelevant on a site like Wikipedia is not only sheer stupidity, but it also happens to be very subjective. Does Wikipedia necessarily need articles on February 15th in rail transport or 205 Martha? No. This article has been marked for deletion because of a vendetta, pure and simple. No type of rational thought ever entered into the proposal that this article be deleted. - .Kiw.Da.Wabbit.
  • Do Not Delete - Fuckin' Hun bastards and their biases, First gas warfare, then the fucking holocaust, and now this. Kraut these buddy
  • Do Not Delete - ICB2 is a rebellion against the moderators and users of the site and company that is IGN. To delete this would show certain favoritism towards IGN and no equal oppertunity towards other small sites that are showing other options and facets of gaming industry.

Delete this and legal action can be taken. -djcodr

http://boards.icb2.com/ is the web address of the ICB2 (Short for Insider Community Board part deux), commonly referred to as "The Deuce". It is a forum where refugees from IGN's original Insider Community Board regularly post. Topics range from politics to s&m, which makes for an ideal place of varied discussion, criticism and opinions. There is usually a harsh "breaking in" of new users, which ultimately leads to them leaving angered if they haven't been blessed with a hard outer shell, or staying for the ride if they can take the initial ribbing. Many new users at first cannot comprehend what is the initial attraction of The Deuce, yet given a few weeks they too, become regulars. For the moment there are twelve people total who are in charge of keeping the peace, yet The Deuce is far from authoritarian, with Moderators, Managers and Administrators rarely taking their power into account.


The user count of The Deuce has been estimated to be in the thousands, yet the regular poster count whittles this down to the couple hundreds. Most users who secede from the original ICB rarely opt to go back, for said forum leaves one's freedom greatly severed, this being embodied in censorship, overly strict moderators, etc. ; This explains why the original ICB is slowly but surely dying, for where there once was a golden age of discussion, there it now lies a rotted corpse of its former self, averaging barely thirty or so posts a day.


There is said to be a certain rivalry between the ICB and The Deuce, with the ICB claiming Deucers to be vulgar and low in IQ count. The Deucers claim ICBers are prude ninny conformists, in their own right. Who knows if someday the two will join forces once again?

P.S. Don't buy anything from SaffronsGhost.

  • Delete, no indication of notability or significance, just another irrelevant-chat-site schism site. Supported only by meatpuppets with non-policy arguments and spurious legal threats. Barno 19:28, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.