We watch over it all- the zone and all its associated spin-offs are part of our 8 year socio-psychological grand experiment. Eight years of subtle manipulations of the infinite variables of the social dynamics here and diligently recording the results.
We can search the history of the zone and bring up a fully functional recreation of the zone on any day in history - We can call up a recreation of the zone from way back- if we want to see the thread where Justin warned you about posting offensive anomalism under the handle 'Dennis' we can do so with with a few clicks of a mouse.
Eight years ago 13 of the founding members decided to use the social gestalt formed by the participants of this forum to form the basis of a huge social psychological study on a scale never before attempted. This scholarly group came to be known as 'The Majestic Bakers Dozen'. (You dont really believe Dan and Justin really just left, do you?)
In order to fully understand and control the variables it was necessarry that we have at least the ability to read the Moderator board...
The results of this study are nearly ready for publication... the results are quite fascinating.