{"id":1252,"date":"2013-03-05T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T06:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2013-03-05T19:37:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T01:37:45","slug":"slymepit-vs-atheismplus-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/03\/05\/slymepit-vs-atheismplus-update\/","title":{"rendered":"SlymePit vs. AtheismPlus &#8211; UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/03\/slymepit1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1258\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/03\/slymepit1-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/03\/slymepit1-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/03\/slymepit1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/03\/slymepit1.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Awhile back, I made a <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/01\/15\/slymepit-vs-atheism-plus-race-to-70k\/\">few predictions<\/a>\u00a0about the relative post counts for <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2012\/10\/30\/a-tale-of-two-communities-part-13\/\">two forums<\/a>\u00a0both originally birthed in concept by talented young women scientists: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slymepit.com\/phpbb\/index.php\">SlymePit<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/atheismplus.com\/forums\/index.php\">Atheism Plus forums<\/a>. As it turns out, I was dead wrong about who hit the 70,000 post mark first, and just a bit off about when the forums crossed that arbitrary marker. To those who had the courage to bet against me, your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitecastle.com\/locations\/frozen\">frozen White Castle\u00a0cheeseburgers<\/a>\u00a0will be arriving in the post on Saturday morning. Please get to them before they thaw.<\/p>\n<p>I mention this today of all days because sometime in the next 24 hours the SlymePit will surpass the A+ forums in overall post count, despite the fact that the former space was soft-launched while the latter was given all manner of fanfare from a highly popular freethought blog network. If you care to speculate about why an unmoderated space has proven more popular among freethinkers than a consummately &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/geekfeminism.wikia.com\/wiki\/Safe_space\">safe space<\/a>&#8216; please do so in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awhile back, I made a few predictions\u00a0about the relative post counts for two forums\u00a0both originally birthed in concept by talented&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,11,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-plus","category-movement","category-slymepit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}