(06-24-2024, 09:09 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote:(06-24-2024, 08:48 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: Russia, or whomever, I'm not certain. Maybe it is just a feeling that on ATS these days, something is lurking around the corner, ready to pounce on its next victims. It is run down and seedy like it has become some nasty alleyway you avoid at all times day or night. Or it is like some speakeasy after-hours type bar where the bouncers kick you out because one of the regulars doesn't like how you look.
I joined ATS in 2009. I still lurk for brief periods. Since I long opted out of joining any new sites, forums, and apps, I chose not to re-sign up with ATS.
I admit that it does not feel the same. Many posts from the old timers don't always sound like them, at times, and it does feel more like the old park or tavern where everyone hung out until they went off to university. That they visit when they come home for nostalgia's sake, but there is not real connection anymore.
I miss a lot of the members, the site, not so much.
Since ATS went off the rails it has been hunting grounds for the far right. I have spoken with members that are still active on those threads and both of them go out of ones way to report any member leaning left as posting offensive material. Even a temp ban is perm now. And there is no remedy to get out of a temp ban nor a way to create a new account. It is a echo chamber done by design by a few members exploiting the current lack of system support. And as far as I can tell from lurking the mods don't seem to mind or maybe even support it.
