Well, I was often dog-piled when posting in Chat a few times throughout my two years on the site. Now, I’ve learned to stay out of Chat drama entirely (aside from liking certain posts every now and then).
Better dogpiled than what happened to me, Ian slapped me as a 'Supporter of white supremacism and terrorism' and perma banned me temporarily because I made a post regarding the Kenosha shooting for stating that "We should wait until a trial and all evidence is presented before reaching a verdict in the court of public opinion" on a that it was "Foolish of the rioters to chase an armed individual." because an unarmed crowd chasing down a person who is armed who they were just told shot someone is a completely rational and smart decision...
In any case I won back membership through appeal but I hardly post their anymore, considering Ian pretty much banned me because of his biased political views when I previously had no history of receiving so much as a warning before in my year of being their I could honestly care less about contributing to his site in most regards.
...I see. At any rate, I share a similar distaste for AH.com's blatant political bias, which is one of the main reasons why I don't post in Chat anymore. Which is too bad, considering how I once fantasized about--but rarely acted on--breaking through the echo chamber, if only for a moment or two at a time.
Oh, well. It being Ian's forum and me being one member among tens of thousands, there's pretty much nothing I can do other than branch out elsewhere and hope there's a silver lining waiting in the wings.
You and me both, but the bubble is too strong, in any case their are other members from AH.com here chiefly Skallagrim and Basileus_Komnenos. If you would like to post any of your works here feel free as our AH subforum is lacking.
It’s good to actually be here after a while of just looking around, especially since my presence is no longer confined to just one or two forums now.