[“IF” memory serves, WA kept changing its format, crashing and eventually just vanished.]
Google search can turn up a lot about what happened to WideAwakes, it’s been posted on numerous sites. It seems that a group of unhappy people connived and hacked into Mad Ivan’s site in the middle of one night. They supposedly locked him out, gave out private info on other members and allowed banned members back in, etc. He learned of it the next morning. That’s pretty much the ‘established’ story now.
It wasn’t long before he shut it down and a number of other sites spun off of it. Some of them might have been; The GOP Briefing Room, GOPachy, TheFort2.com
Elephants Graveyard, TheRightReasons.net.
I’ll explain why I know much of this; I’ve written many times before on the forum that I lost much hearing in my early 30’s, it made a big change in my life causing me to avoid groups and gatherings of people because I couldn’t ‘understand’ what was said. People can’t ‘see’ hearing loss and wonder why you don’t answer or ‘ignore’ them. It was daunting...for sure.
About 12 years ago my son gave me a laptop computer and it opened up my world and I’m on my third computer now! I soon discovered Free Republic from the Drudge site and have been here since. Because I spend so much time on the computer I browse the web every day, reading, reading, reading........and I learn a ‘lot’, - after I’ve seen it verified on numerous sites. Trust but Verify should sometimes be Distrust and Verify, lol.
I didn’t know Quix, the subject of the thread, at all, except to see his/her postings every now and then. Some I agreed with, and some I didn’t. He/she seemed like a sweet, gentle soul, though, if somewhat quirky.
However, WRT your history on the various anti-freeper sites, you are exactly right! Especially with the people (Bug Zapper thread) involved.
I’ve known about your hearing loss for some time and, in this case, it was an asset.
Rogue Yam, if someone signed up as you, and it wasn’t you, I hope the fallout isn’t on this forum. You don’t deserve that, no matter what your opinions are. For someone to do that is just wrong.
I haven’t read much of the thread and, quite frankly, I’m going to forget about it, now.