This Secret Stash has been...REMOVED!

Part of my usual morning routine involves that moment of annoyance when, having completed the other many tasks associated with keeping up in Mafia Wars, I finally get to the business of running out accumulated energy and stamina and then have to decide if I want to bother with that stupid Secret Stash.

I almost didn't even notice when that moment never happened this morning, until one of our other admins commented about it.

A quick glance confirmed the Secret Stash is no longer located under the Bosses tab, either.

And I say Good Riddance!

The Secret Stash has a long and contentious history. They used to litter our walls to the point that many of us blocked our friends from posting on our Facebook walls at all. It was definitely abused by Click Monkeys.

Then some players took it into their heads that you weren't really their friend if you didn't let them post on your wall. That's right, people defriended each other because others could no longer stand the wall spam.

Then there were the error messages. Where the hell did Zynga come up with those error messages?? This stash has already been found ...Your friend got the bonus ...it only took a few paranoid idiots to kick off the great Gamers Unite Divide.

Ignorant people making assumptions decided to educate other gullible players into believing that evil, dastardly scripts were really the problem. Let's never mind all the other countless errors Zynga serves its players. This one SAID someone else took the stash, it must be right!

More specifically, Gamers Unite and its Snag Bar came under fire. Misinformed players started defriending and attacking their friends for even liking the Gamers Unite Facebook page, which in no way remotely indicated Snag Bar usage as the new 'experts' proclaimed.

Facebook pages and groups and independent websites sprang up, all for the purpose of spreading propaganda and identifying "cheaters". It really was quite stupid, because it took barely 5 minutes of actual research to determine that these were nothing but ill-founded lies.

All this, because of a Zynga error message.

This past summer, when the new fight module started rolling out, the fight secret stashes disappeared. The new Secret Stash was introduced, and met with rather lackluster reviews.

You got this

a lot more often than you got this.

Will anyone actually miss this feature? I somehow don't think so. I think this was a long time overdue.