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2012
March 12th, 2012
- SBAllen announces plans to consolidate board names, contributor names, and universal names into one single name.
2011
December 12th, 2011
- The Terms of Use is split into two distinct branches, the Terms of Use and Board Etiquette. This allows far more leniency in terms of what users are allowed to post on the boards.
September 11th, 2011
- WikiFAQs is back up and running after an extended hiatus.
August 25th, 2011
July 1st, 2011
- Accounts that have not been logged into within a certain amount of time now placed into Cold Storage.
May 13th, 2011
- Philz20 and Error1355 promoted to Lead Moderator.
- Math Murderer steps down as Lead Moderator
April 1st 2011
2010
2009
June 17th
- Private board Hyrule left without an owner, admin, or any board members after current owner woodsnib banned.
April 28th
- New Site redesign goes live.
January 27th
- New moderators are selected. 20 in all are chosen.
January 3rd
- The Famous Five gets a topic to 500 in 34 seconds, less than half the time of the previous record.
2008
September 2008
September 18th
- Character Battle VII begins.
September 8th
- Site creator and former administrator CJayC's account closed.
August 2008
August 21st
- Character Battle VII Entry Form up.
August 5th
- New Moderators selected.
August 4th
- GameFAQs Answers enters it's open beta state.
- GameFAQs boards moved to gamefaqs.com domain.
- Message Board Announcements and SBallin'! are given purge schedules.
July 2008
July 8th
- NBA board regulars successfully coerce a NBA Summer League announcer into declaring that "Saxon = joke account".
July 4th
- DarkstarRipclaw is the first winner of SBAllen's private board contest. His new board is named "The Second Foundation".
June 2008
June 27th
- SBAllen announces a new contest on SBallin'!, whose winners will receive a private board of their own.
June 9th
- System boards restructured, merging the Hardware and main system boards into one.
June 2nd
- The newest GameFAQs feature, MyGames, completes its beta testing and is released to the public.
May 2008
May 22nd
- Moderator Garibaldi's account is jacked, leading to hundreds of undue suspensions.
May 15th
- CNET acquired by CBS.
May 5th
- Recent rash of account hijackings culminate in the theft of the moderator account, ChiZPoof. Kingpin and x213 are rumored to be to blame.
May 1st
- The Daily Grind renamed SBallin'!.
- Closed beta testing for new GameFAQs features begins. Participating users alerted through Sysnote.
March 2008
March 27th
- Sysnote sent out to all users still using gfaqs9 surveying why they still use it.
March 20th
- New Lead Moderators selected.
March 19th
- User Profiles updated to include Public Contact Information page.
February 2008
February 27th
- User Profiles updated to include newer features.
February 7th
- Topic Archive feature implemented.
February 6th
- New moderators selected.
January 2008
January 27th
- GameFAQs staff begins cracking down on Signature Dividers.
January 23rd
- Help Files updated.
2007
November 2007
November 29th
- New Boards created.
November 7th
- Annual Karma Boost
November 4th
- GameFAQs is the Featured Article on Wikipedia.
October 2007
October 8th
- The Ignore User System is implemented on the message boards.
July 2007
July 19th
- CJayC announces he will step down as Administrator.
June 2007
June 20th
- New Boards created.
- Gmail Trading Post closed.
- Advertisement placement moved to within the message list.
May 2007
May 29th
- User Levels for Next-Gen Gaming, Pro Wrestling, Music: Metal, and Music: Rap/Hip-Hop are raised.
May 14th
- GameFAQs now hosts boxart images for games.
April 2007
April 1st
- 5 new secret boards added for April Fools 2007.
March 2007
March 6th
- An FAQ Wrapper is implemented.
March 1st
- A batch of New Moderators appointed. >List Here<
January 2007
January 18th
- RSS feeds made available for Topic Tracking.
2006
December, 2006
December 6th
- CJayC introduces Topic Tracking.
November, 2006
November 7th
- 11th anniversary of GameFAQs, 7th anniversary of boards
- 7% Karma Bonus awarded
October, 2006
October 24th
- Posting engine updated.
October 5th
- Three new stylesheets added:
- Default Blue
- V9 Blue
- Neoclassic Blue
September, 2006
September 21st
- 12 moderators demodded.
September 8th
- New forum code comes online.
August, 2006
August 26th
- Snack Attack is shut down.
August 18th
August 3rd
- CJayC performs a live test of the new forum code.
July 2006
July 26th
- The Upper Room renamed "funny".
- Nominations for Character Battle V open.
July 20th
July 11th
- super magus announces plan to delete The Upper Room in one week.
- Steve removes Hacked co-admins.
July 5th
- CE Reloaded userbase completely purged due to rogue admin... again.
June 2006
June 20th
- Moderator Applications reopened.
June 9th
- CE Reloaded userbase completely purged due to rogue admin.
May 2006
May 24th
- Account closure and the ability to upgrade Read-Only accounts re-introduced.
May 8th
- E3 2006 board created.
- CJayC announces on The Daily Grind the following:
- Fix-a-Day
- Zero-Queues
- New Moderator Applications System
- Nominations for Spring Contest opened. [1]
- Summer Contest Board renamed GameFAQs Contests
April 2006
April 26th
April 25th
- Survey issued for 2006 Redesign.
April 24th
- Server move
- CVagts & Devin Morgan reach 3000 karma.
April 18th
- CSS Submissions opened.
- CSS Contributors board created.
April 10th
April 9th
- The Goggles, They Do Nothing found.
April 2nd
- Manos: The Hands of Fate found.
April 1st
- April Fools 2006 jokes on GameFAQs.
- Snakes on a Plane found.
March 2006
March 31st
- New Terms of Use introduced.
March 17th
- Front Page Ads come into being.
March 14th
- Hacked userbase consolidated.
March 13th
March 11th
March 1st
- CNet introduces "Sponsored Links" advertisements at the bottom of every page.
February 2006
February 21st
- User named NSA mass suicides on Message Board Help making over 150 topics with presumably hacked accounts.
January 2006
January 19th
- Self-Deleted Message system changed.
January 14th
- j00 transfers Lead Moderator position to CVagts.
- Cat Nip also transfers position to Split Infinity.
January 9th
- "ebaum" becomes a banned word
January 3rd
- Sashanan resigns from mod position
2005
December 2005
December 30th
- Bunny! userbase purged
December 15th
- Cursify was banned.
- Topic Search function changed.
December 14th
- Board 821 renamed Bunny!
December 12th
November 2005
November 29th
- General Moderator title changed to Moderator
- Specialist Moderator title changed to Veteran Moderator
- New Mods promoted to 51: Moderator
November 14th
- House of Lies officially named.
November 9th
- New Contest System is put in place.
November 8th
- CE:R closes invites.
November 7th
- 6% Karma Boost on GameFAQs.
November 5th
- Someone finally posts on the The Daily Grind
November 2nd
- CE:R re-opens invites.
October 2005
October 26th
- Captain Planet policy has changed.
October 16th
- New Lead Moderators.
Crono LV99
tiger8191
Devin Morgan
j00
Math Murderer
October 12th
- Silverfist remade a moderator.
October 1st
- New VIP Levels.
VIP - Industry and
VIP - Production
- GameFAQs suffered from the 0 Post glitch.
September 2005
September 9th
- Cat Nip, a secret mod from the latest batch, has revealed himself to be Split Infinity.
September 8th
- New boards added;
-Local and World News [2]
-Politics [3]
-History [4]
-Religion [5]
- Katrina, WoT, and new boards moved to new category; News: Past, Present, and Future [6]
- New contributor boards added. [7]
- New Special Interest boards added;
-Food [8]
-Monty Python [9]
-Photography [10]
-Photoshopping [11]
- RPGs - Squaresoft is now RPGs - Square Enix
September 7th
- Deadline for old account merges set.
September 4th
- NickBush24 mass suicided on Current Events.
August 2005
August 29th
- New Mods announced.
- NKL system is changed.
- System Notification lag fixed.
- Board 815 re-opened.
