i haven't read every single post in this thread so i apologize if this has already been posted, but this page acts as an interesting look into the whole TBM incident, which occurred just before the forums went down, before the first thread in the OP timeline
http://badspot.us/Blockland-forums.htmlabout half way down the page, Wedge provides a fairly concise overview of the events that lead to TBM adding the code to their exe that got them banned
basically the TBM devs felt so slighted that AiO and RTB took some models/code/logic from TBM that they retaliated by silently adding code to the launcher .exe that searches for installations of AiO and RTB on your computer and deletes the folders, leading to the entire TBM dev team being banned from the forums. after this they attempted to create "The Orange Block"; a supposed competitor to Blockland that didn't really go anywhere
this stuff happened 13 years ago now, i had only been part of the community for a few months at the time so i didn't really know a lot of people yet and had to figure a lot of stuff out on my own. as a result, my memory of exactly how these events played out may not be 100% accurate
again, i'm sorry if this has already been posted before
