TheSpawn.net was originally conceived as a gathering place for any/all gamers to meet and interact with gamers from other more game/server-specific "sub"-communities. We began as a few friends who had met through the Minecraft community, but we were all "part" of different server-specific communities (i.e. Discovr, Minecrap, etc.) and we wanted a place where we could all hang out which wasn't specifically for people in our respective servers.

We initially created an IRC channel simply to have a place where we could congregate and meet people from other parts of the general gaming community.

Once we did that, we started to see potential for TheSpawn.net to become more than just an IRC channel where people could talk, and we started having gaming events now and then. When we started to quickly grow, we decided it would be nice to have the ability to voice-chat with other people in TheSpawn, so we had set up a mumble server and a website linking to our IRC channel and mumble server addresses.

Since then, IRC has kind of fallen out of favour, with the discord channel taking it's place (same deal with the mumble server).

Since its inception, TheSpawn.net has become a community all its own, without any real push from any of us to become anything other than what it has naturally evolved into.

1. Respect others. (self-explanatory, google Wheaton's Law for a more in-depth explanation)
2. Remember this is run by a very small amount of people who have their own lives and responsibilities. If something comes up, give it some time to be fixed/resolved
3. Lusus is always right

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