There's no such great value on ATS, to be honestPosted by The Moss Trooper (here)
It would be a great shame if ATS vanished into the mists of time.
There are some fantastic threads and second-to-none research there, especially in the UFO forum, from members such as Isaac Koi, Mirageman, William One Sac, Gazrok, Mike Singh, Schuyler, Zorgon and of course our very own Pigsy2400. These are just some of the names that have stuck with me over the years of creators of threads that have led me down many a rabbit hole. I lurked that site for more than 10 years..... Never had the balls to join until fairly recently!
The emergence of John Titor, the CARAT drones and ASTRO have to be my top 3 of ATS's greatest-of-all-time threads.
Like life itself, ATS can be a cruel place to navigate, but if you ignore the more 'vocal' subjects and members, the breadth and depth of subject matter and research is outstanding, there really is something for everyone. It'll be a great loss to the community as a whole if the lights well and truly go out, and a warning bell to sites such as this, Project Avalon, as places on the internet where truly free speech is not only allowed, but encouraged, are few and far between.
I know these are tough times for everyone, but if you are in any sort of position to help the ATS members who are looking to save the site in any way, I would strongly encourage you to do so.......... You never know when you may need help yourself.
First they came for the Alex Jones & Infowars, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a member.
Then they came for the Brian Rose & London Real, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a member.
Then they came for ATS, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a member.
Then they came for Project Avalon......... And there was no one left to speak for me.
Take my sister for example, these was her experience when she was 15 and i allowed her to start posting on that site
She was sexually harassed a few times
First time, the guy was removed from the forum and the thread closed
The second time, it turned to be one very popular member, an old guy who basically demanded her to disclose if she had sex before or not, and when she tried to defuse and change the subject she called her comment "BS" and kept insisting she must disclose to him her sexual life
Eventually she got angry and told him to shut up and to stop harassing her, her comment was removed for "manners violation" or something like that, while up to these days the guy's comments are still there for all to see
When i joined ATS i talked to that guy, and asked what would he do if he had a 15 year old daughter and some 50 something guy came demanding her to disclose if she had sex before, what would he do?
Then my comment got removed and i got a "manners violation", he went full saying "he was asking for her own health and good"
When have you seen some random 50+ year old man demanding that kind of answers from a 15 year old kid, for "her own good", while not knowing her or being a doctor or for any reason at all but bullying her and causing her mental harm?
Mods are corrupt and lack morals on ATS
A second thing is Xenophobia, of which we got tons of it and the mods did nothing about it, but a single reply from me or my sister about it would get immediately removed and a warning sent to our inbox. While the xenophobic comment would remain there forever
A last one is, every single comment or thread that could be considered "political" or related to US politics, by either me or my sister, would get immediately removed for "political trolling" even if it was just a video of Trump or someone else basically saying the exact same thing we were posting. So even with evidence, it was "trolling" just because we were not supposed to talk about it, if other people made the exact same comment or point, it would be left and even in some cases the exact same mode that removed our comments would agree with the other poster, just because he was not "Russian Troll"
In general you can see this behavior a million times over the past years, lots of people complained and got their complaints removed and sometimes the members were banned
There is no recourse on ATS if a mod decides they don't like your post, it's just gone and you may also be gone if you ask why your thread/comment got removed, no explanation and no recourse ever
That's not how a site that is supposed to be a "garden of the mind" should work, or is it?
The last time i was on ATS, i posted a thread asking why no one was questioning Trump when he said the US was on Syria because of the oil and nothing more, it got several pages of people discussing the topic until it started to look like people were agreeing that it was a bad thing to say for Trump and made the US look bad, then the entire thread got immediately removed because of "Political Trolling" even if most if not all posts were made by American ATS members. And i got a warning about it
I sent a message back about it and never logged in again after that day. What's the point?
The entire spirit of the site is corrupted by now, there is no point on such site to live on. I mean there's a guy there that has around 5000 political threads, every single tweet by Trump or any word he says, turns into a thread, it has taken the site down and he has been called on it. He replied with something like "well too bad your conspiracies theories turned out to be fake and no one cares about what you guys think" or something on those lines
ATS is not a representation of good research, or wisdom or anything remotely related to fighting for the truth in any way
It's a lot of people, some perverted, patting themselves on the back while giving themselves stars and removing all people/words they can't handle
That's mostly it these days, so it shows why it going down