Ok, I will try to shed some light on it for you guys who don’t know what happened. I didn’t spend a lot of time over there and only have 3 posts so I am not am expert, but this is what I know.
The main admin and site founder is "The Dude".He seems to me to be a good guy but has been increasingly frustrated with members who disagree with him on seemingly any subject (my opinion).
The subject that caused this implosion was a gun thread. The Dude is a cop and pro gun and gun rights. It started as in innocent gun thread just like the one we have here. It’s an international site so members from out of country have other opinions regarding guns. Several of these members thought that the thread was glamorizing guns and violence. There point was that it’s a triumph site not a gun site. The gun thread was the only one with any real activity. The Dude became very defensive about the thread and it became a war of words with a lot of STFU or get out from him. Several members voluntarily left and deleted there posts, others were banned; it was a train wreck...The final straw was a video posted by a member who dubbed a video of Hitler with words from The Dude.... I thought it was funny myself.
Like I said I was not very involved with this site but it seems to me as an outsider that a site that was set up for freedom from the over moderation of TRAT became more over moderated than what it was to replace. Silly boys.
