To all the xATS’ers - I feel you

[LSU2018]

@"DuckforcoveR" - Good lord, Slayer69! I'm in regular contact with him, and need to get a message out to him to see if he wants to partake, too!

Thanks for the reminder!

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Slayer just left Oregon headed to New Orleans to live. He is still on the road.

From bad to worse... Oof

[LSU2018]

I have to admit I have mixed feelings about ATS right now. It had the most inquisitive and intelligent minds on the Internet.

"Had" being the key word here.

TheRedneck

Well if you are gonna unload, I’ll fire up a couple barrels myself. 

ATS isn’t the topics nor all the posts. What made it a destination was the community. And what made the community was the Civility and Decorum, not so much the T&C. Attempts to purchase are well and good as are the attempts to offsite some threads. But just know what made it ATS. 

Digging around I found a thread that was a simple interpretation of the T&C’s that boiled down to “Don’t be a jerk” at each part. Sure it was funny that one of he owners/admins jumped on a general account named abovetopsecret.com and posted it. Still a public thread just well buried. It was a moment of fun. 

We lightened up despite objections. idk if the results would have been the same with Google defunding the site. But I wonder if we had held a firmer hand if things wouldn’t have been so sloppy at the end. Or if we had held the deeper bot tags for Alexa rankings to stay above 2000 instead of slipping to nearly 32,000.

I remember when some butthurt leftist wrote a Wiki page about ATS... They bashed y'all, especially burdman30ott6. 

ATS Wiki

[knowledgehunter]

Hello friends.

Hmm... this place feels mighty familiar.  Anyone know where I can find some cookies?

[beez]

I never cared whether or not ATS was the biggest, best...or most popular forum.
I came for the weird stuff...I stayed for the weird people.

If and when ATS closes shop...will go where they go...and quite a few of them are coming here.

Ew.

Weird people?

Present company excepted.

There is nothing wrong with wearing a mask, everyone says it's for safety!

[LSU2018]

Hello friends.

Hmm... this place feels mighty familiar.  Anyone know where I can find some cookies?

Welcome aboard, you can have some of mine'ses

Put your hand in and dig around. I hope you like double chocolate fudge with peanuts. 

[knowledgehunter]

Hello friends.

Hmm... this place feels mighty familiar.  Anyone know where I can find some cookies?

Welcome aboard, you can have some of mine'ses

Put your hand in and dig around. I hope you like double chocolate fudge with peanuts. 

Ooh, my favorite! 

*gnome gnome gnome*

[Mystic Wanderer]

Hello friends.

Hmm... this place feels mighty familiar.  Anyone know where I can find some cookies?

Welcome aboard, you can have some of mine'ses

Put your hand in and dig around. I hope you like double chocolate fudge with peanuts. 

That's too funny!  

[Mystic Wanderer]

Hello friends.

Hmm... this place feels mighty familiar.  Anyone know where I can find some cookies?

@"knowledgehunter" 
Looking from my peripheral vision, I thought your avatar was a hand giving us the finger.  

[knowledgehunter]

Hello friends.

Hmm... this place feels mighty familiar.  Anyone know where I can find some cookies?

@"knowledgehunter" 
Looking from my peripheral vision, I thought your avatar was a hand giving us the finger.  

Well you’re definitely not the first to make that distinction. Probably won’t be the last, either.

It’s all perspective, really.

;)

[ChiefD]

Hi everyone. ChiefD here. Good to see some of you who migrated to this site. I see some of you carried your avatars over from ATS. I’m trying to figure out how to do that. 

I agree with what some of you said regarding ATS being special because of the people. I will miss it if it goes away, but I have the memories of some friendships on there too. Glad to see you all here.

[guohua]

Hello friends.

Hmm... this place feels mighty familiar.  Anyone know where I can find some cookies?

Give me a minute, I need to finish my Bourbon & Coke,,,, OKAY, Ready.
 Well that do? 

[LSU2018]

Hello friends.

Hmm... this place feels mighty familiar.  Anyone know where I can find some cookies?

Give me a minute, I need to finish my Bourbon & Coke,,,, OKAY, Ready.
 Well that do? 

Looks yummy! 

I like turds. 



These people refer to them as chocolate oatmeal no bake cookies. Pff

[Ahabstar]

I have to admit I have mixed feelings about ATS right now. It had the most inquisitive and intelligent minds on the Internet.

"Had" being the key word here.

TheRedneck

Well if you are gonna unload, I’ll fire up a couple barrels myself. 

ATS isn’t the topics nor all the posts. What made it a destination was the community. And what made the community was the Civility and Decorum, not so much the T&C. Attempts to purchase are well and good as are the attempts to offsite some threads. But just know what made it ATS. 

Digging around I found a thread that was a simple interpretation of the T&C’s that boiled down to “Don’t be a jerk” at each part. Sure it was funny that one of he owners/admins jumped on a general account named abovetopsecret.com and posted it. Still a public thread just well buried. It was a moment of fun. 

We lightened up despite objections. idk if the results would have been the same with Google defunding the site. But I wonder if we had held a firmer hand if things wouldn’t have been so sloppy at the end. Or if we had held the deeper bot tags for Alexa rankings to stay above 2000 instead of slipping to nearly 32,000.

I remember when some butthurt leftist wrote a Wiki page about ATS... They bashed y'all, especially burdman30ott6. 

ATS Wiki

I love a good hate filled laugh...that one was just sad. And woefully inaccurate. 

I can think of three moderators that have used variations of the Stars and Bars. I have used a US Flag with “It’s not hate, it’s heritage.” emblazoned upon it as well. 

ATS Live had zero to do with videos with the exception of two that I made both as contests sponsored by the show, but not “part” of it. There may have been a couple others made for the first contest by other members. It was 10 years ago. 

I’ll give it a .03 on a scale of 1 to 10.

[LSU2018]

I love a good hate filled laugh...that one was just sad. And woefully inaccurate. 

I can think of three moderators that have used variations of the Stars and Bars. I have used a US Flag with “It’s not hate, it’s heritage.” emblazoned upon it as well. 

ATS Live had zero to do with videos with the exception of two that I made both as contests sponsored by the show, but not “part” of it. There may have been a couple others made for the first contest by other members. It was 10 years ago. 

I’ll give it a .03 on a scale of 1 to 10.

Same here. But you rated it better than I did... 

[AutomateThis1]

I had been on ATS for quite some time, under different names like most. It always seemed a decent reflection of "normal" society outside the digital veil.

Politics creeped into everything there with about the same timing as everywhere else that wasnt facebook/twitter.

I had actually thought I was just gonna go down with the e-ship and leave the net.. But I dont know how else to share the tech stuff I have worked on. So, here we are!

I saw redneck, rickymouse, and The Spock here and figured itd be good.

Can I post one liners or naughty words here?

Glad to see that I am in a place where I can continue reading your musings.

Also glad to see several other people here that I respect as well.

[guohua]

@"AutomateThis1" 

Also glad to see several other people here that I respect as well.

You Beat Your Fucking Ass You can!
 
Welcome To Rogue Nation 3 say any Damn thing you want, just be respectful and Lovable 

[Serdgiam]

Glad to see that I am in a place where I can continue reading your musings.

Also glad to see several other people here that I respect as well.

Glad to see you here too!

Figure I had to have somewhere to actually post the cool parts of what Ive been working on beyond the "self-sufficiency" basics.

The real time thread list, shoutbox, and growing member list was the clincher. I see some names I havent seen in quite some time as well!

@guohua

Fuck yeah! Im pretty respectful, but I am known to curse like a sailor lol really didnt like having to always watch that, even if I understood the reasoning... 

[guohua]

@"Serdgiam" 
Welllllll Fuck-It just Be A sailor a Rogue Sailor and Say it you think it.

[Mystic Wanderer]

Hi everyone. ChiefD here. Good to see some of you who migrated to this site. I see some of you carried your avatars over from ATS. I’m trying to figure out how to do that. 

I agree with what some of you said regarding ATS being special because of the people. I will miss it if it goes away, but I have the memories of some friendships on there too. Glad to see you all here.

Go to the Avatar Thread and tell @"BIAD" to make you one. He and Gordi are our lab techs for avatars.

[Snarl]

Howdy!

Then my bestie there threw a fit and got herself banned. In solidarity with her and her reasons, I got myself banned too.

1000 posts and another  year or two later, I was banned again...

 I was banned AGAIN! Saddened yes, but not truly surprised. 

Hi all 

So is it safe to say it is almost impossible to get banned here...lol

Ohhh ... it's easy to get banned around here.  Just keep posting without your avatar for cover, and see what happens.

Good to see you're on your way over.  Very good to see you!!