Terthna
Professional Lurker
In summary; there was a PM over on SB, comprised of an honestly ridiculous number of individuals, where users talked mostly about how best to present conservative arguments. Eventually, this one guy by the name of Horton and those he managed to rope into his activities decided to hack the PM, cherry-pick posts that made those who posted there look as bad as possible (as well as modify, or even outright fabricate, some to make them look even worse), and presented his "evidence" to SB staff and the community at large of a diabolical conservative conspiracy who's goal he insisted was to take over the forum.Well no offense to the man but head of AH is pretty biased in his political convictions at time and insanely ban happy at other if they don't follow them, (The Admin's bias in any form of IsraelxPalestinian debate's is legendary.) it's little wonder they lose so many people.
Also can anybody tell me the history of how this site came be and splinter from SB? Because I am new and deeply curious of how it happened...
Long story short, the mods hung everyone who was a member of the PM out to dry (which included some of the few remaining conservatives on SB's staff), and one of them decided, with some of her friends and the now former mods of SB, to make her own forum. I might be overlooking a few key details, and those who were actually involved can elaborate, but that's basically how The Sietch came to be.