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reply posted on 1-1-2008 @ 04:48 AM by Dont Hate Rats
reply to post by shortywarn


No ATS isn't dead, but it is hemorraging thanks to all the teenyboppers allowed to post here. This place will never be the serious research mecca that it can be until you make a mandatory minimum age requirement. If you have to enforce it by charging a dollar a month as a way to verify age through credit card so be it. Hey, the small income can sure help out with server repairs I'm sure.


reply posted on 1-1-2008 @ 06:02 AM by Burginthorn
Originally posted by Dont Hate Rats
reply to
post by shortywarn


No ATS isn't dead, but it is hemorraging thanks to all the teenyboppers allowed to post here. This place will never be the serious research mecca that it can be until you make a mandatory minimum age requirement. If you have to enforce it by charging a dollar a month as a way to verify age through credit card so be it. Hey, the small income can sure help out with server repairs I'm sure.


Total member accounts: 126,929

At $1.00 a month - that aint a bad earn



reply posted on 1-1-2008 @ 06:43 AM by seagull
reply to post by Dont Hate Rats



Some of the more intelligent posters are those "teenyboppers" you mentioned.

Not all of them, to be sure, but a good many are thoughtful, and thought provoking, posters. Age is meaningless, if you are willing to use your brain and think a little.


reply posted on 1-1-2008 @ 10:00 AM by niteboy82
reply to post by Byrd



You better look out for that night elf trailing behind you! Ostrich legs don't hold up well with a 2H axe about to come through.

ATS is live and well, it is moving upwards in many respects. All the people that are angry, and would like to say either "ATS is dead" or "the topics suck," what have you done to bring better topics to ATS, and what have you done to level your own quality research to bring interesting discussion? It's a two way street, and all the tools are at our disposal and provided for free. All we have to do is utilize them. This is a "user-generated content ecosystem" which means it's all on us.

Happy New Year.


reply posted on 1-1-2008 @ 11:50 AM by Stormdancer777
reply to post by Sri Oracle





I do agree that there are many people that come here just to be the first one to say "hoax"


Well, I don't rush to judgment, but I do seek the truth in such matters, since there is a lot of hoaxes out there, I find it better to research something before jumping on any bandwagon.


reply posted on 1-1-2008 @ 01:40 PM by ZeroGhost
Any forum that is a truly democratic and humanitarian organization knows you have to allow everyone a voice. Even the disenfranchised. I challenge anyone to find such a place where turning the other cheek and biting the bit is as common an act as pouring another cup of coffee.

ATS seems quite alive and quite well. They operate with one of the most light handed group of guys on any forum I've seen. They are involved and have a true stake in the discussions. You would think that because of this it is less likely they would be fair when the fire spitting dysfunctional's attack with attitudes befitting mentally caged animals.

We are a culture in crisis. Our spirits have been enslaved by the desires we have been force fed by profiteers. Angry voices are a natural result and should be expected.

The "network" news (so called) focuses on the negative at the exclusion of substantive, truly critical and caring subjects. People are angry, lonely, hopeless and scared. We fight each other for crumbs as the real power of the people is squandered on the plans of titans to control and command a planet, coincidentally about to be born to the stars.

We have to tolerate the souls who have given up hope in order to continue to discuss what is taboo in the part of the EM spectrum we call the media.

People like this will persist, but give up when they find there are more people out there that care (even for them) than they ever believed possible.

I can see where their anger comes from. We all do, but fire will not put out fires. (we will for the moment not consider back burning relevant to the symbol). With a bit of span, we can see why such anger is here. Not many other places to seriously express such anger really. So, I myself expect it.

The future of planetary communication, and I mean the person to person type, is truly born within such structures as ATS. We now have a planetary network (web) we can discuss any issues we find important to us. Crossing all boundaries, governmental, religious, political, racial, cultural and... maybe even species.

ATS and internet born discussion in general is the natural evolutionary result of a species now willing to first understand itself, then to go forward to understand the universe and it's relation to each individual. We're just beginning. Finally after millennial separation from ourselves.

ATS is just the beginning. We are about to take back our true freedoms to decide for ourselves our possible futures. We are the new media, each of us. We broadcast on our own frequency for all to know. We need only to be tolerant of those who are still so angry they are blinded to what are truly the potentials here.

Let's give this one person some hope by understanding and allowing for such an honest expression of anger and frustration as we should anyone. Let's offer alternative thoughts not as a weapon of defense, but as a gift to be given or rejected. Unconditionally.

ATS is us.

ZG
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