For the record despite the talk about "arbitrarily deleting accounts", only two people have ever been permabanned on AAD, one for being a Nazi and the other for death threats.
Hang on, wasn’t IBDD also banned? Was he later let back on? According to this post, he was banned. Banned by ”free speech” crusader HockeyDude because he leaked to Bushie the fact that people were re-posting Bushie’s Facebook posts on AAD against his wishes? (And btw, it actually wouldn’t surprise me if cyberstalking someone like that was against Proboards rules, but I can’t say for sure.)
I also like how HockeyDude banned a slew of accounts with 5 or fewer posts because he didn’t like the fact that people were relaying information about stuff on AAD back to Atlas forummers like Bushie, saying that doing so constituted “actively trying to destroy this place”:
http://atlasafterdark.freeforums.net/thread/2236/deleted-50-lurker-accounts-posts?page=2&scrollTo=60454
Got that? People leaking Bushie’s FB posts to AAD is OK, but people leaking to Bushie the fact that he’s being stalked is “actively trying to destroy this place”. Gotta go with Gustaf on that one:
http://atlasafterdark.freeforums.net/thread/2236/deleted-50-lurker-accounts-posts?page=4&scrollTo=61542
AAD is what you would expect to find after most radical revolutions, a dictatorship governed by arbitrary law.
As for the rest of the site's problems, it is literally a case of "it all being there in manual". The "After Dark" portion of the name. The place encourages people with bad judgment to engage in some of the dumbest actions possible all in the name of preserving that stupid update bs. Not to mention the sideline trouble such as the whole Mod Leaks fiasco, which did no one any good, but I am sure it felt good sticking it to the Atlas for about 5 minutes.
"And some I assume are good people, but they're bringing crime, they're bringing the update..."