John P. Moore wrote:I suspect that it self-destructed, possibly destroyed from within. It's better for people to devote their energies on mainstream forums such as Feldgrau and AHF rather than supporting a site whose purpose appeared to be attacking other persons and forums rather than any serious research. RIP
John
Would you care to expand on your theory, John? Perhaps not. People in glasshouses and all that...
You're wrong about the aims of Feldpost. Any criticism of the AHF website sprang from Erik's review of the Jens Westemeier Peiper biography - which you complimented - when some members observed that such a review would never have been published or, rather, permitted to remain visible on the AHF website.
It was valid criticism of the kind of censorship that occurs on that website. You then flung gasoline on the embers of residual resentment by barging in and braying about how the AHF was the best site of its kind. You also made some unpleasant and gratuitous remarks about MCF and about me, which was OK. I can take the lumps. What I find hard to take, though, is sanctimonious bull.
I responded by writing short editorial critiques of three AHF articles concerning subjects in which I am generally accepted as being fairly well-versed. The aim was not so much to make an attack on the AHF website but more to disprove your rather extravagant assertions that the AHF website was the
non plus ultra.
This prompted a very long thread containing all sorts of trolling attempts by AHF "partisans" of varying levels of intelligence. Predictably, it got nasty. The paradox is that it was kept alive long after it would normally have faded away by the trolling and shilling attempts.
Returning to "sanctimonious bull", your hostility to the Feldpost website is perhaps more rooted in the posting by "Icarus" of the text of an old AHF thread in which you alleged that someone had been illicitly selling your SS officer data and posted screenshots from that person's PC that were clearly obtained through an illicit entry into his computer by you or someone known to you.
Could that possibly be the real reason you get so bent out of shape whenever anyone refers to that episode, John? Hacking into people's computers doesn't sit well with the well-honed image of moral guardian and conscience, does it? Nor does the stroke you pulled on me but, hey, it's all water under the bridge now.
The salient point here is that you should be wary of involving yourself in a discussion about hacking into Feldpost given your publicly aired track record in that department. I'm not accusing you of anything but I am warning you, because we used to be friendly once upon a time when you wanted to run the veterans forum on MCF, that you should be careful of what you say because people might start jumping to conclusions about what happened to Feldpost.
People might start wondering if there was some kind of conspiracy to effect "the change of direction" to which the owner has referred. You know what people can be like, especially in our dysfunctional, nasty little micro-community.
After all, whose interests would be served by the disappearance of some of the more pointed critical content in the Spotlight section Troy Tempest and I set up to expose dodginess of various kinds?
I expect you and some of your friends will beating hell out of your keyboards, composing complaints to moderators and webmasters about my latest forum outrage. You might even persuade them to remove or edit this post. They wouldn't want Feldgrau to suffer the same fate as Feldpost, would they?
After all, Feldgrau uses exactly the same software...
PK