* ~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.
* 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 (scroll down to the 'projects' section) . She has since
pooned out.
* 2016 - FTB turns on one of its own, accusing A+ blogger/history lecturer Richard Carrier of serial sexual harassment. PZ Myers, one of if not the most prominent A+ bloggers, has made dubious rape accusations and claimed to have been threatened with false rape allegations (nobody ask if there is a connection here please and thank you) but Carrier is a male feminist and admitted swinger so both sides have too little credibility to trust. 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.
* 2022 (+ or -): The slymepit boards are either locked or deleted due to owner/admin Lsuoma hating what the site become and being unable to run it even if he wanted due to advanced cancer. The url now just shows
a gravestone dated May 2024.
* 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.