Serebii v. The People

The case of Serebii v. The People (full-size picture here) occurred on June 5, 2011. In response to Serebii's prohibition of member-centric threads in Misc., Cipher created a modest thread titled, "Do you enjoy school?"

Although the thread did indeed briefly touch on whether or not other members enjoyed their institutions of learning, the majority of the opening post acted as a legal document discussing the illegitimacy of the member thread prohibition, using Serebii's own post and rules against him.

The thread was quickly deleted and Cipher recieved a two-week ban. However, several versions were later posted, including a screepcap of the thread as it was first posted, and an edited version reposted by Korusan. The image to the left contains a capture of the final version of Serebii v. The People, as it was recreated by Cipher himself using the "preview post" feature of an alternate account.

Main Points
The argument of Serebii v. The People, which casts the thread in question as the defense (despite acting as the prosecution), makes the following claims:

1. Serebii specified the member threads had to stop because they broke "half the rules."

2. Even collectively, the member threads violated at most 5/12 of the rules, though it could be easily argued they broke even less.

3. Who is "Serebii x," anyway? Has he always signed his name like that?

The discontinuation of member threads was seen as a great loss for Misc, as they were both mildly entertaining and served the purpose of both encouraging good users and removing poor ones through brutal honesty.