The Text-Based Games Forum had started out as part of the Scratch Forums, with the original intent as being a section where Scratchers can become creative through text-based game play. Moderation difficulties led to the closing of the text-based games section in the Scratch Forums and the opening of a completely new forum dedicated to text-based games in October of 2009. The growth of the Text-Based Games forum led to the need of new TBG moderators. Compounded with the fact that nikkiperson2 had resigned, a second moderator election took place.