The Newly Departed thread: announcements (departures)

[A Theist]

DoDo,
I don't think I know you at all, but thanks and can I get $20 ? You know us religious tpyes, always looking for a hand out as min would say

Not knowing a majestic ancient extinct species? Shame on you for being such an ignoramus. (Sorry iggy, you've been usurped.) 
Haha no in all seriousness though, I just meant you as a poster, based on what I've seen since you've started (re)posing on AF, and not you as a person, since I don't know you either. You just seem like a chill and genuinely nice theist. (So does CL, but there's been a lot of drama to call her chill at the moment).

You can't blame CL for what happened. The drama started when a civility section was created only to have it shut down just a couple days later over the complaints from some members here. In response to that backlash, there was a second one where other members who wanted a civility section left AF for another recently created atheist forum....and it wasn't just Theists who left. The AF staff are trying to get it all worked out, so hopefully, they can come up with something.

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It was more than just a mere 6 or 7 "exiled members", Shell. I counted at least 20 current and former AF members who are now posting on another recently created atheist site. I'm sure you know the one. Just check out the introductions thread there and see for yourself. It wasn't just Theists who left. Some of those members who are now posting on the other site aren't coming back. Others of us are waiting to see how the "kinks" get worked out here.

Not all AF members who post there have stopped posting here. And some who have taken a break may come back here to post again sooner or later (as explicitly stated by them), though it seems like there may be one or two who have stated they have no intention of coming back here. Furthermore, some of the former AF members who have left left before the civil subsection was shut down anyway (their departures had more to do with the perceived general atmosphere of this forum, and for all sorts of reasons, some opposite of others). Just putting things in perspective.

That's fair, but you also know those members are waiting to see how things get worked out here. If the other forum is providing a friendlier atmosphere than the one here then I don't see those members returning. Just take a look through their introductions thread and read what some have said about the atmosphere here. Their complaints are the same as those of the former members who left here before the civility section was started.