Oh wow what a mess here!
I apologize I did not give a heads up. I have very little free time with a small infant and jumped into prep work for the vbulletin 4.0 forum software. 4.0 requires a complete overhaul of the existing 3.x series, its complicated, and requires a test environment before a live install.
A large database like this one gets incrementally backed up. I needed a fresh backup dump for the test environment and needed to shut the site down otherwise it would be db errors all over while the large db was backing up.


I removed the other thread to clean the ****, and clean up violations

All the members that purposely violated the site rules to get banned are banned for a week. Hope the time off will give them some time to cool off and stop acting like children.