What is "the flob"?

[Marco]

One Native Taiwanese Reader's Impression of Forumosa

Of course it’s not too late. It wouldn’t be the f.com I joined though and for me it would be a shame, as I’d stop posting. The 'Ho’s fine for what it is, but mostly it’s simply deadly boring, to me. God forbid the flub goes the same way. It’s a community of mostly reasonably astute and intelligent people and that’s what I like about it. If we’re to dumb things down for the benefit of thin-skinned locals who can’t even understand 75% of what goes on in any case, what the hell kind of site would …

Earliest known non flob.com reference.