AE split and current members?

Firstly, I have always enjoyed AE, yet have no "allegiance" or preference to either website since AE split, nor any desire to go into the reasons why it happened. I am posting purely as a member of both sites and this post is mirrored exactly on each, with no deviation or favour. I'm also not aiming to 'tread on toes', but merely to speak frankly how i see things.

I am posting this directly because of the above-mentioned event because, since it happened, I have noticed a distinctly off-putting 'Cold War' atmosphere on both sites, also a lack of attention and response to posts made (on either/both) by myself.

Not that I want 100% attention to my posts or am I desirous of an immediate reaction (I'm happily an admin of my own website!) , but surely, under these unique circumstances, a more eager response by the admins or veteran members should be highly expected in order to welcome to junior/new members in order to encourage them to post more often?

Isn't that the intention - to encourage more traffic? What impression does the dearth of activity, or effort made, give to junior members of a site?

Just my observation.

Originally posted by Huscarl Firstly, I have always enjoyed AE, yet have no "allegiance" or preference to either website since AE split, nor any desire to go into the reasons why it happened. I am posting purely as a member of both sites and this post is mirrored exactly on each, with no deviation or favour. I'm also not aiming to 'tread on toes', but merely to speak frankly how i see things. I am posting this directly because of the above-mentioned event because, since it happened, I have noticed a distinctly off-putting 'Cold War' atmosphere on both sites, also a lack of attention and response to posts made (on either/both) by myself. Not that I want 100% attention to my posts or am I desirous of an immediate reaction (I'm happily an admin of my own website!) , but surely, under these unique circumstances, a more eager response by the admins or veteran members should be highly expected in order to welcome to junior/new members in order to encourage them to post more often? Isn't that the intention - to encourage more traffic? What impression does the dearth of activity, or effort made, give to junior members of a site? Just my observation.

Huscarl, you are yourself an admin of your own website and has certainly worked hard for it, what will you do, if some members of your website betray you, register a domain name, like englistory.net, and go there?! Who is doing wrong, the founder of the original website or those who created the fake website?

There is no split. Allempires.com (registered 2002 ) is and has always been the original. It's just that there are some sites around that imitate us.  One faker even claims that our AE.com ( reg. 2002) is the younger one, and theirs ( registered a year ago or something ) is the original !!

The hard registration data show clearly that such is just nonsense and our AE.com ( reg. 2002 ) established by Cyrus is the genuine one   :

Edited by Sander - 30-Sep-2009 at 20:12