RE: AF-org is nearly 5 years old. How is everyone doing?
July 22, 2013 at 8:19 pm
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2013 at 8:25 pm by Tiberius.)
We appreciate all and any kind of feedback, so keep your suggestions coming.
It's certainly surprised me how popular we've become, especially since we aren't viewed as one of the "big" forums. We're usually within the top 5 results for a search of "atheist forums", and we get a large number of visitors every month. Our community has supported us in so many ways financially too, so we've got a nice powerful server that should last us for many more years to come.
Edit: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, I'm pretty sure we were the first (or at least one of the first) atheist forums to have theist moderators, and then later theist administrators. That is something I'm very proud of. I think it speaks wonders of a community that they can trust and respect the people in charge despite religious differences.
(July 22, 2013 at 4:33 pm)whateverist Wrote: I believe these forums become 5 years old toward the beginning of next month but please correct me if you know better.I tend to go by the date I first created my account (which was the first account), and that was 25th August 2008 at 17:47:03 GMT. So, we've got just over a month to go.
Quote:If any of the original members would care to regale us with stories from the 'olden days' it would be great to read them.I'm actually wondering how many of the original atheistforum.com (note the lack of the 's') gang are still here. Darwinian and I are still active; Ace doesn't come around too often. I've forgotten who else there was.
Quote:I would most of all like to address that question to Tiberius. Has it surprised you in any ways and do you like what it has become?I originally created the forum because I was sick and tired of forums which would either ban theists or have people jump all over them and generally be nasty. At the same time, I didn't want to limit people's freedom of speech. It's been a tough 5 years; we've been through so many rule changes relating to expression, but the community has pulled through and I think what we have now is a nice balance. It's not as limiting as "don't be a dick"; it's more "don't be too much of a dick".
It's certainly surprised me how popular we've become, especially since we aren't viewed as one of the "big" forums. We're usually within the top 5 results for a search of "atheist forums", and we get a large number of visitors every month. Our community has supported us in so many ways financially too, so we've got a nice powerful server that should last us for many more years to come.
Edit: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, I'm pretty sure we were the first (or at least one of the first) atheist forums to have theist moderators, and then later theist administrators. That is something I'm very proud of. I think it speaks wonders of a community that they can trust and respect the people in charge despite religious differences.
