WI: No AH.com?

Another alternate history forum is created, which attracts a lot of the same people most likely. The moderation style would probably be different though.
 
There would be a lot of small, niche boards across the Internet, catering to different time periods and moderation styles.

For example, Board A could have exclusively WWII WIs and TLs, while Board B could host mainly ASB stuff and modern WIs.
 
Umm, okay... Was he already off before that or did it happen all of a sudden?

According to the wiki, he was fairly normal poster before he got kicked for plagiarism, at which point he "declared war on AH.com". I don't know for sure if that is fully accurate, as I only started going here regularly in late January 2014 so I only caught his porn bombings (he spammed the forum in February 2014, IIRC).
 
"No AH.Com" would have absolutely no effect on the "real world". However, the presence of AH.Com has allowed many bright and well-informed people to satisfy their desires to see their ideas in print and discussed in a way that is far easier and less restrictive that publishing them (either self, online, or through publishing houses). While that is good, one also wonders if the authors of some of the really good alternate histories on this site might have made serious (and possibly more financially lucrative) attempts to see them published for the broader world.

I found this site in 2003/4 when there were a variety of small websites, message boards, and blog sites featuring alternate history. AH.Com was easy to join and contribute to and (this will sound condescending to newer members, sorry) overall had a higher percentage of serious contributors. It obviously was placed to capture a market for people who thought a lot about historical "what ifs" and was very welcoming to them. Maybe another site would take this place...maybe not.
 
According to the wiki, he was fairly normal poster before he got kicked for plagiarism, at which point he "declared war on AH.com". I don't know for sure if that is fully accurate, as I only started going here regularly in late January 2014 so I only caught his porn bombings (he spammed the forum in February 2014, IIRC).

He was very noobish and had a habit of making lots of frivolous threads, but he didn't really seem malicious.

Anyway, it's possible that alt-AH.com would have had an even stricter moderation style. I used to be a member of a forum that had a stricter moderation style than this one. They didn't allow more than one thread on even vaguely the same topic, IIRC.
 
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