That wikia introduced me to AH - but it was this site that introduced me to the good AH. 
If you understand the butterfly effect, and know a lot about history, then you can create a realistic alternate history.I feel like an elitist when I say this, but it seems like exposure to this site is the only thing that can allow a person to create realistic AH. It seems no one else has come to all these realistic conclusions independently.
Ah, now I see.I am one of the contributors to that WIKIA.![]()
If you understand the butterfly effect, and know a lot about history, then you can create a realistic alternate history.
It's just that most of the people on althistory.wikia.com only satisfy one of those two things. Or neither.
Or they misunderstand the Butterfly effect completely. Like Ray Bradbury, inventor of the concept, seemed to believe stepping on a butterfly in the Triassic will change English to be phonetic and make the other president win the election. It's silly how understated he makes the effects.
Not to mention how time travel only makes sense if it is a stable time loop, like in Harry Potter, or creating a new timeline, like in ISOT, but that's my own personal vendetta.
Heard of Edward Lorenz?
I feel like an elitist when I say this, but it seems like exposure to this site is the only thing that can allow a person to create realistic AH. It seems no one else has come to all these realistic conclusions independently.
If you understand the butterfly effect, and know a lot about history, then you can create a realistic alternate history.
It's just that most of the people on althistory.wikia.com only satisfy one of those two things. Or neither.
.Ah, now I see.
Oh my god, it took him!I am one of the contributors to that WIKIA.![]()
Oh my god, it took him!
Nobody can escape it, we'll all be doomed!
The creator of this Wikia is Mitro, an inactive member of this forums.
I think there is nothing wrong with this Wikia, there are just many writers there that don't take their timelines seriously.
Yes I was toying a little, as i said some TL have interesting ideas.
The main problem with this Wikia it that the quality is really diverse. Many not that bad but not really good, some really bad ones, and some (less than the bads) with interesting ideas and PODs and rather well treated.
This diversity of quality is more important in the Wikia than, well, here.
I think it's due to the format. The wikia doesn't allow as well a "peer-correction" than a board. Eventually, it helps on the quality of TLs, and assure having really accuracy ones. On the other hand, many first TLs here are or abandoned, or remade entierly after.
On the Wiki, you can have a rather good presentation and they less fall into the oblivion of AH (aka, page 37+ of the sub-forum), but the correction is harder, and if you can follow your first idea, you can end by having a really twisted and ASBish TL when it wasn't the idea of the conceptor.
I think it explains why we think that they're more quality TL here, they're not really, but the really bad ones are more chance to be forgotten and buried.
And, actually, we have just talked on the really really really bad ones. (I think it's the local version of the scary stories that teenagers tell themselves while camping).