I’ll share a thread that I made from the Earthfury AQ Scarab Lord drama (pre the TV stuff because the server wasn’t always or only about that):
The “Scarab Mount Coalition” is sad - Earthfury - World of Warcraft Forums (blizzard.com)
The thread talks about it but I don’t expect anyone to read that all. Basically, certain ally and horde guilds colluded to control Silithus completely.
Still, the best part was the person/guild who was not in that coalition and got Scarab Lord regardless - despite people trying to not allow that - and they REALLY tried to stop it on the last day.
Anyway, I was annoyed at that time so I wrote that thread but that really is one of the things that makes this first version of the game so memorable because I have yet to see “player-created” things that groups of people just on one server will remember 20 years down the road on any version of WoW since.
Oh and yes the original Vanilla server forums were a lot of fun. Now it’s all Discord which is ok but I preferred those. The big thing on my Vanilla server forum for MONTHS involved a notorious for it warlock "ninjaing’ the Devout Mantle from UBRS.