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Denying any responsibility for this is: SuperNerdUqau

The author writes:

For those of you wondering what happened on the forums recently:

A forum user named hdzsivgabepru with good community standing became a moderator after a vote. Shortly after, they removed moderator permissions from all the other moderators and began wreaking havoc across the forum, including adding random words to the filter, stickying irrelevant threads, and unbanning almost all banned users. Normally, the other administrators and I would deal with this sort of thing quickly, but for various reasons we couldn't get to the forum while this was going on. I personally was on a long-haul flight with awful internet, but some of the other admins were visiting friends in the Green Bank Observatory, were having their connections DDOSed, or were having a psychedelic experience. Luckily, about 10 minutes after the rampage started, our hosting provider was struck by lightning, which took the forum down.

We've returned everything back to normal now thanks to a few well-timed backups. As far as we can tell, hdzsivgabepru's account wasn't compromised; they seem to have had a complete change of behaviour after becoming a moderator. Reaching out to them has proved fruitless, so we may never quite know why they did.