My friend is currently in college and had to write an essay and decided to use this group as a topic. So here it is.

A friend of mine enjoys playing a game called "Team Fortress Two". Team fortress is an online game that acts as what is known as an "Massive online battle arena". In this format of gaming large amounts of people online sign into servers to battle eachother in a team, the red team or the blue team. Once you have selected a server and team, the player chooses the character they want to lay as and is dropped in the middle of the match. In team fortress two there is a character called who is the sniper in the game, one can customize each character with different and unique weapons. One of the weapons that the sniper can use is a bow and arrow called "the huntsman", which has a unique function that allows the sniper to stab an enemy with an arrow. My friend enjoys using this weapon and has taken it upon himself to see that other people use the weapon too. He started an online group which he called "the cult of [stab]" in an attempt to create matches in the game where everyone play as the sniper with the huntsman's bow. The idea started as a fun small project between him and other friends, but spontaniously exploded into having multiple hundreds of other group members. All of these followers join a friend in making servers where the player can only use the huntsman sniper to stab eachother. They have even gotten so popular of a group that they began to invade other servers and take them over as [stab] servers. This kind of phenomenon works in correlation with Gladwell's concept of low-risk activism. A large wealth of people joined his online "cult" because doing so required very little of them. In fact, all they had to do was play a videogame. As gladwell says in his passage "Social networks are effective at increasing participation -by lessening the level of motivation the participation requires". Even though the cult of [stab] is going raiding other Team Fortress Two servers to make [stab] servers, I find it highly unlikely that there will ever be a mass protest around the Valve studios (makers of the game) for changing the game to being huntsman sniper only. - Liam "Krelos"

Just thought I'd let you all know. ~ Stab God

We're back Stablings (I really like that, what do you think?). Raid tonight, in about an hour and 15 minutes. Sorry about last week, I was out of town and didn't have a computer to play on. Regardless, let's have some fun, shall we?

~Stab God

Greetings Stablings. It's the end of the week so here we go with another raid. Business as usual.

~Stab God

Hello Stabros! It's been a while... again. Sorry about that. School started up for me Monday and I haven't had a chance to do a raid when I wanted to. BUT, to celebrate the end of my first week of being back in hell,TONIGHT WE RAID, on Upward, I think. People seemed to enjoy Upward so we'll raid on that for the most part but, fear not, other maps will have their turn.

~Stab God

Hey Stabs. I wanted to make this to let everyone know that they should check back on the group page everyonce and a while. There's currently a disscusion about prefered maps when raiding. I want to know to get an idea of types of servers to raid. Also, Raid today or tomarrow depending on my plans and other things.

~Stab God