Has Dave given up on Atlas?

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

He seems to have completely forgotten about Atlas, the site keeps crashing, threads go missing, it's getting worse and he hasn't been on here in a long time

[LLR]

We've all given up on Atlas in one way or another

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Atlas as a site? No.

The forum? Most likely.

[This account no longer in use.]

Yes, and for good reason

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Waiting for Dave is like waiting for Godot.

[Virginiá]

He was pretty active during the election last year. He also seems to log in almost every day, but for what, who knows. I'm sure you'll see slightly more of him in 2018

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

He seems to have completely forgotten about Atlas, the site keeps crashing, threads go missing, it's getting worse and he hasn't been on here in a long time

And he keeps ignoring my request to add my Russian avatars!

[Santander]

He seems to have completely forgotten about Atlas, the site keeps crashing, threads go missing, it's getting worse and he hasn't been on here in a long time

And he keeps ignoring my request to add my Russian avatars!

You did not include Crimea.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

He seems to have completely forgotten about Atlas, the site keeps crashing, threads go missing, it's getting worse and he hasn't been on here in a long time

And he keeps ignoring my request to add my Russian avatars!

You did not include Crimea.

And I never will.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

In 2017, a team of deeply pious moderators conducted a radical experiment on a hidden subboard. The mods had theorized that a poster without access to any senses or ways to perceive stimuli would be able to perceive the presence of Dave.

They believed that the five senses clouded our awareness of eternity, and without them, a human could actually establish contact with Dave by thought. An elderly poster who claimed to have “nothing left to live for” was the only test subject to volunteer. To purge him of all his senses, the mods performed a complex operation in which every sensory nerve connection to the brain was surgically severed. Although the test subject retained full muscular function, he could not see, hear, taste, smell, or feel. With no possible way to communicate with or even sense the outside world, he was alone with his thoughts.

Mods monitored him as he spoke aloud about his state of mind in jumbled, slurred sentences that he couldn’t even hear. After four days, the man claimed to be hearing hushed, unintelligible voices in his head. Assuming it was an onset of psychosis, the scientists paid little attention to the man’s concerns.

Two days later, the man cried that he could hear his banned buddy speaking with him, and even more, he could communicate back. The mods were intrigued, but were not convinced until the subject started naming dead relatives of the mods. He repeated personal information to the mods that only their dead spouses and parents would have known. At this point, a sizable portion of mods left the subboard.

After a week of conversing with the deceased through his thoughts, the poster became distressed, saying the voices were overwhelming. In every waking moment, his consciousness was bombarded by hundreds of voices that refused to leave him alone. He frequently threw himself against the wall, trying to elicit a pain response. He begged the mods for temporary ban, so he could escape the voices by being off-line. This tactic worked for three days, until he started having severe RL terrors. The subject repeatedly said that he could see and hear the deceased in his dreams.

Only a day later, the subject began to scream and claw at his non-functional eyes, hoping to sense something in the physical world. The hysterical subject now said the voices of the dead were deafening and hostile, speaking of hell and the end of the world. At one point, he yelled “No heaven, no forgiveness” for five hours straight. He continually begged to be killed, but the mods were convinced that he was close to establishing contact with Dave

After another day, the subject could no longer form coherent sentences. Seemingly mad, he started to bite off chunks of flesh from his arm. The mods rushed into the test subboard and restrained him to a table so he could not kill himself. After a few hours of being tied down, the subject halted his struggling and screaming. He stared blankly at the ceiling as teardrops silently streaked across his face. For two weeks, the subject had to be manually rehydrated due to the constant crying. Eventually, he turned his head and, despite his blindness, made focused eye contact with a mod for the first time in the study.

He whispered “I have spoken with Dave, and He has abandoned us” and his account deleted.

There was no apparent cause of deletion.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yes.

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

Waiting for Dave is like waiting for Godot.

Good thing Wonder Woman is in theaters.

[Mr. Morden]

He seems to have completely forgotten about Atlas, the site keeps crashing, threads go missing

Threads “go missing” because posters continue to violate the terms of service, prompting the moderation staff to remove the offending content.  As for the site crashing…I’m afraid that too many posters are geographically concentrated in the US Eastern and Central time zones, meaning that nearly all posters are awake at the same time.  This can be solved with a software fix, if posters would agree to relocate to other parts of the globe according to a relocation lottery program being written by former Atlas moderator Tender Branson.  This will alleviate “urban packing” in these two time zones, create fairer congressional district boundaries in Atlasia, and eliminate any forum slowdown.

Read the revised Terms of Service for more information on said (mandatory) relocation.  The program makes use of an algorithm that relies on demographic data available to Atlas premium members, and an early version has already been used to order the relocation of South Korean actress Kim You-Jung to Austria.

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It hasn’t been that long, and it is not getting very much worse.  5 points for excessive hyperbole.

thanks,
Dave

[Virginiá]

This can be solved with a software fix, if posters would agree to relocate to other parts of the globe according to a relocation lottery program being written by former Atlas moderator Tender Branson.  This will alleviate “urban packing” in these two time zones, create fairer congressional district boundaries in Atlasia, and eliminate any forum slowdown.

Why do I get the uneasy feeling that me and TexasGurl are going to be relocated to Austria?

[NOVA Green]

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere, but "Dave's not here Man".

This is harmless "G Rated 59 second audio" of a classic skit from some legendary comedians from the late '60s/early '70s that my friend Wes used to listen to while he was on a Destroyer off the Coast of South Vietnam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACfNSqsi_mE

I felt compelled to post this here, because the reality is that it is Dave's Forum, and although many view it as solely yet another political chatboard, it is really the detailed level election result statistics and analysis, that allow this Forum to keep functioning.

"Dave's not here" because he has much better things to do with his time than micro-manage the partisan squabbles and BS that unfortunately is all too common here (But is still the best place on the internet in the US to actually find, analyze and dissect real election data).

So, I'll go back to working on my detailed examination of Oregon Election results over the past 28 years, now that I have had a day or so of downtime to make a few frivolous posts on other items, but hell, I for one am happy that Dave continues to find ways to fund the bandwidth so we can talk about items in detail that aren't available anywhere else on the internet.

Dave might not be here, nor should he necessarily be here. I wish that I was in a financial position to buy a membership to unlock some data sets not currently available, but I for one am happy that there are enough $$$ floating in from academia to keep the site alive.

[The Other Castro]

Dave, into your hands I commend my spirit
Dave, into your hands
Why have you forsaken me?
In your boards, forsaken me?
In your threads, forsaken me?
In your posts, forsaken me?

[Kingpoleon]

*insert design of DAVE'S NOT DEAD movie poster here*

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

He's active, and its an intergral part of his activities.  We just came off an election.  He will post the VA and NJ gubernatorial elections as well as 2018 elections.

[Mr. Morden]

Does Dave personally approve every new registration to the forum?  If so, then I guess it's the one way in which he's still participating.  Maybe the way to get his attention then is to encourage friends and family to register new accounts on the forum with usernames that are actually coded messages, like "Dave, please check your emails, thanks, Morden".