Is Atlas significantly less ideologically diverse than it was 10-15 years ago?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I don't know whether it is necessarily any more ideologically diverse, but the American contingent (ever a super-majority of posters) is certainly vastly less diverse in partisan terms than was the case back then. The reasons for this are much as expressed by others already. The forum is also less weird, more influenced by mainstream culture and mainstream political concerns, this largely reflecting the fact that it is a lot bigger and easier to find than it once was. This means that there is less toleration for 'extreme' political perspectives, so even though they can be found in the roster of active posters, they are less likely to become established forum 'characters'.