Weezerpedia:Today's featured article/September 6, 2009
The Rivers Correspondence Board (originally named Rivers Criticism Board and commonly abbreviated RCB) was a fan-run bulletin board in existence from 2002-2005. The board gained notoriety through posts from Rivers Cuomo, who frequented the board as 'Ace' from February through July of 2002 and again in March of 2003.
The Rivers Criticism Board was started in early 2002 by three fans (screennames: Asschun, Pickles in my Undies & Queero McGayguy) who were unhappy with the discourse of the main Weezer forums on the official site and other ezboards. The three opened the RCB as a place to air their grievances with the band's then-current output (the Maladroit sessions). The board grew in membership after it was hinted that a poster known as "ace" was Rivers. This was soon confirmed when ace posted of his wish to grow a beard days before pictures first surfaced of Rivers with a beard.
With the influx of new members, the ruling triumvirate closed off public access, set up a registration system and banned users for the most trivial of issues, as well as changed the board's official name to Rivers Correspondence Board). After a few weeks, forum founder Pickles had a falling out with the other two and deleted the board. However, the other two started the RCB back up, where it remained until its deletion in 2005, following Make Believe.