I'd like to add my experience as a fairly recent contributor to the ATM forum. On the 30th August 2007 I posted "Terry's Simultaneity-Time Cosmology". Despite the fact that this was obviously posted by an amateur, a strong discussion followed, but by the 5th September 2007 it was all over.

It seems to me, in retrospect, that it died because I over-blew my claims. What I had was not a cosmology, but a novel framework for a cosmology. Also it seemed that no one saw any significance in that framework. So the 30 day rule did not limit discussion. I learned a lot, and have since presented the ideas on other forums. But, conversely, nowhere has it received the feedback that it did here.

So I, for one, do not believe that the ATM forum on BAUT is dead. Nor do I feel that the 30 day rule is unreasonable.