Hello .I miss ATS

[SteamyAmerican]

That is an entire thread topic right there.

I've seen the vague, iffy media coverage about how some of the media we might be innocently sharing, also happens to have an "effect" on viewers.

People used to think the nasty, icky, just plain 'wrong' feeling they come away with after some social media perusing was a 'mind control' thing... maybe it's just a "emotion" control thing.

The COVID event has to have alerted at least some people that we are definitely being "told" what to think...
but what of they are also 'making us feel' to some abusive end... hell, Facebook did it and called it "research" years ago.

Think about looking into this - but fair warning...
There is a creepy theory about how some media is 'used' to this end...
research might mean actually 'looking for it'  ...   so .. paranoia ho!

it’s hard to explain. And it want limited to the Covid Threads on ATS. I came away hyper drained and somehow a little fractures or somehow fragile in imeither a spiritual or emotional way that seemed to eat at my being. So I had to put the phone down and step away after some of my more self-righteous rants or posts.

to your point. UK’s govt agrees with you and is doing everything they can to stop people from this ickiness or unwanted offense. 

[Maxmars]

it’s hard to explain. And it want limited to the Covid Threads on ATS. I came away hyper drained and somehow a little fractures or somehow fragile in imeither a spiritual or emotional way that seemed to eat at my being. So I had to put the phone down and step away after some of my more self-righteous rants or posts.

to your point. UK’s govt agrees with you and is doing everything they can to stop people from this ickiness or unwanted offense. 

There are flavors of conspiracy theory about this aspect particularly.

In the material sense... the technology we rely on to convey information has never been limited to the conveyance of words alone.

Entire scientific approaches to "making the subject 'feel' a precise feeling." 
And the capabilities are provably there...

Some think this has actually been deployed... and certain topics... infested...

But that thread topic needs conscientious planning to research 'appropriately.' 
It's a job for multiple researchers... it has to be.

Insofar as theatrical political poison... this subject is full of it (more than one pun in there... yes?) 

[fiveandtwo]

[OneStepBack]

I miss the 'new topics/threads' section that ATS used to have. 

There used to be a portal link which listed all the threads in chronological order. The problem was it also listed the whole OP which made browsing the threads very difficult. There is a MyBB plugin (MyBB is the current forum software) which allows users to decide how much text in their OP they want to show in the portal. The problem is getting everyone to use it and only show 2-3 lines of their OP. Also the more plugins you add to MyBB the greater the risk of security events. Anyone can submit plugins to MyBB but you have to verify the code yourself.

Maybe you could make it your project and use AI to assist with the coding?

[OneStepBack]

Indeed. Numerous authors cause inconsistencies. The few public plugins we do use mostly come from authors involved directly in MyBB development.

Very wise.

[Blackfingers]

I miss the old ATS from 10 years ago.