I wonder what happened with that, it seemed to have crashed and died after Elevatorgate or whatever
The name went away but the underlying mindset of 'real atheists embrace hard left politics' did not and a core group of people/orgs stayed around. In no particular order:
* ~2012 - A+ members mass report a woman's blog (ERV) for letting commenters criticize them. She was allowed to keep posting but forced to implement stricter moderation policies.
* ~ 2012 - In response to the moderation crackdown, the more inflammatory commenters on ERV form their own site, the now defunct Slymepit. The owner appears to have deleted the site altogether due to his anger with the userbase and needing to spend most of his time dealing with serious medical issues.
* 2013 - most likely false rape accusations against Michael Shermer (atheist but a diehard libertarian)
* Mid 2010s - The Slymepit finds hard proof that a blogger on the unofficial A+ site FreeThoughtBlogs (FTB) had plagiarized or fabricated most of his 'bombshell' stories. Needless to say FTB denied this, claimed it was a racist smear campaign even after it was clear some of the stories were physically impossible, and never admitted the trolls were right even after getting rid of the guy.
* 2015- Atheism+ founder Jen McCreight quits blogging. She has since pooned out.
* 2016 - FTB turns on one of its own, accusing A+ blogger/history lecturer Richard Carrier of serial sexual harassment. A+ has a history of false rape accusations and described its cons as hookup central but Carrier is a male feminist and admitted swinger so it is hard to say who is telling the truth here. While the claims resulted in a libel suit (lolsuit thread was stillborn but docket is
here) it was
dismissed for lack of jurisdiction without reaching the question of truth/falsity.
* 2024 - A+ infested org Skepticon appears to hold its last event. There is nothing suggesting the org has closed/will close but it typically holds its big convention in the late July time frame and
its site does not appear to have been updated in about a year. With the caveat I was not logged into either site its
Xitter and
Bluesky both appear to be empty