(12-10-2025, 07:46 PM)charlyv Wrote: ATS was an incredible resource and outlet for me and I am forever grateful to all those web stars that founded it and kept it going through some harrowing times. The arguments on there became the non-mechanical reasons for it's downfall, despite the heroic efforts from moderators like DTOM who understood the human psyche well enough to defuse most of the worst abusers.
This site is a wonderful change, and it's design is much more conducive to rational and intelligent discussion.
I also wish that many of the ATS residency will come back and perhaps many eventually will.
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With my apologies to the OP... I just can't allow such a kind post to pass without a direct and explicit thank you from all those who have spent so much of themselves to keep this virtual place available to the community....
and begging the indulgence, it is the community itself that endures... ATS was a long-time home, I wept to lose her...
Deny Ignorance was a direct homage to ATS... a flare for a community members to be aware of...
Many came... and slowly the community coalesces once again... but now with some wonderful newcomers... who may actually
want to be community members... to discover why ATS was head-locked by marketing and commerce. Our community became the 'object' of someone else's calculus.
Here 'we' are, I dare declare! Screw them if they can't take the joke... ('the joke' being
them.)
I'm glad you're here CTFtheory...
In the spirit of "be the change you wish to see"
you obviously know what you wish is...
reach for it.