If GAF comes back and all bans are wiped clean, that would be the most amazing development ever.
We all hope and pray.
I'm not sure I do... I thought about coming back after the evilore post about Bish banning hundreds of people. He talked about GAF becoming an echo chamber. However, while lurking I watched a number of people banned for what seemed like expressing contrary opinions. I came to the conclusion that not a lot had changed. Quite how evilore was expecting GAF not to turn into an echo chamber when the room for expressing controversial opinions was so narrow is beyond me.
I am reminded of something Sam Harris said on a podcast with Douglas Murray: It's not
what you think, it is
how you think that is the most important. The problem with many people on the left is they get caught up in
what you think. That is certainly true of Sam Harris. I remember one thread, which I read while lurking, where someone made quite a lengthy post outlining all the things Sam Harris had said. It is true, he said all those things, but what the poster failed to realise or acknowledge was that there was a coherent and well reasoned argument behind those quotes. He was too caught up in
what he said.
The point I am making is, there was too much emphasis on what people think and very little on how people think by the members of GAF, and more importantly, the mods and admins of GAF. Within that sort of climate I wouldn't have chance of surviving. lol
