AH.com

[Zioneer]

As a member of both forums, this little "rage at AH.com" thread makes me laugh so hard my jaw hurts. I mean seriously, either side accusing the other of being "stuck-up" is absolutely hilarious. I would advise everybody involved to get over themselves. Ian's forum is Ian's forum, and though he's obviously biased and a bit tyrannical, he has good reasons to be so (would you want gigantic flame wars between pedantic history nerds over folks like Enoch Powell?). Plus, he's got about a decade of experience in being an Admin, so honestly I trust his judgement in most AH.com matters.

Still, I can see where the AH exiles are coming from. Ian does tend to rule with more of a fist of iron then most mods, and he is a bit paranoid in trying to prevent flame wars. Additionally, he tends to have more animosity towards religious folks (especially conservative religious folks) then the other members.

So I'd say the truth is somewhere in the middle (cue South Park), though I'm a bit more biased towards Ian's point of view, having witnessed a lot of AH.cpm flame wars that could have been prevented by an early ban or kick by a mod.

Again, I think both the exiles/Atlas regulars and the AH.commers are taking this way too seriously.

Side note, when are you going to update An Era of Limits, oakvale? It's one of the best Post-1900 timelines on the site!

[Zioneer]

I have been In many forums but AH.com Is one of the most opressive forums I have ever seen.

Producing statistics on Immigration? Scientific Racism - you are banned!

Beeing of the opinion that Communist crimes equal Nazi crimes? Nazi Relativizer - your are banned!

Beeing against left wing? You are a right wing extremist- you are banned!

AH. com is the perfect example of a left wing communist censorship site that banns all people
with some brains that are against the party line.

You do realize that some of the most popular and well-regarded members on AH.com are the libertarian crowd, right? And most of them haven't been banned. In fact, even as a leftist member myself, I would say that the libertarians and vaguely center-right folks are better political timeline writers than the leftist crowd are.

Also, I've only seen people get banned for posting immigration statistics when the source is something like Stormfront. Let me guess, you were a AH.com member and tried to use a white nationalist source for immigration statistics? Not saying you are one, but if you used those specific sources for statistics, that's basically a bannable offense.

The Communist thing is patently untrue; no one has been banned for saying that the Soviets were worse than the Nazis. The only time I've seen that that subject has led to bannings is when person attacks and Nazi apologism gets involved.

To insist that AH.com is a leftist communist censorship site is laughable; it might have a clear leftist bias, but it's not some tyrannical dictatorship (though as I said before, Ian errs on the side of paranoia sometimes).