(April 17, 2020 at 2:11 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: I'm not good at editing quotes so to your question, "What was it about this place that leads you to have described it as great, and what happened - trolls disrupted the greatness???"
There were a few really thoughtful theists that frequented here and they weren't unilaterally shouted down and insulted because the membership back then was seemingly more receptive to counterpoint. It might have been because I was learning a lot so the posts were new and vibrant but I think it is because there were more thoughtful members. There are still several here but it seems more acceptable to just troll each.
When I was staff, I came up with the idea of staff quorum, id est, that for staff rulings, one needed a number of votes to action. Like, to give a warning, x votes were needed, to temporary ban y votes were needed and for bans more z votes were needed (spammers banned on sight OFC).
What I didn't antecipate was the growing legislation that turned an idea into that we need to be lawyers to do something.
As result we have both atheists and theists abusing eatchother and the conundrum of rules, subjective, avoid moderators to do what they are meant to do, to moderate discussion.
Back then atheists or theists wouldn't dare to break the purpose of this or any other forum, to discuss. Sure insults were throwed both ways, but always in the company of some sort of reasoning against the other. The forum needs leadership, not bosses that cower under the whining of the culled. Eh, I had the balls to warn Minimalist because he created a thread called "its like skullfucking a 4 year old", he even called my mother a bitch, something he would have to take up with her, probably getting a deserved arse kicking.
No wonder the quality of the forum has decreased. At any rate, google the OP nickname and you will know about him.
