Atheism +

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

No, of course not. I'm just mildly amused at their own folly.

Oh, come on.

War, war, war, war!

[Kayenneh]

[Tiberius]

I think at one point they had a long bit in the rules about not using sexual swearwords like "cunt" as they are demeaning, and then a few lines later had a section on "Don't be a dick". Oh the irony.

By the way, their site is down for me at the moment. Is it down for anyone else?

Edit: Hahaha...

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

Hey, shouldn't that be "...administrator or administratress"?

[Tiberius]

Oh yeah, here it is:



Thunderf00t wrote about it on his blog:

"For instance they see the word “bitch is a gendered insult that demeans ALL women” (a point which Rebecca Watson of Skepchick assures us is so uncontroversial that almost everyone ‘gets’ it), but will have no problem in using the words “don’t be a dick” in their guidelines for their new ‘Atheism Plus’ forum (whose rules prohibit degrading people using sexual slurs)."

[Ben Davis]

Hey, shouldn't that be "...administrator or administratress"?

Administratrix?

[KichigaiNeko]

Atheism+ is so lame.


I would wager that this is what to expect when a group tries to micro-manage humanity......

Fail

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Sad thing is, those who wish to demean 'atheists' will simply latch onto Atheism+ and use it as an example to show how fucking pathetic some atheists can be.

This is true, of course, mainly because atheists are just people. But still, if one could ever see 'atheism' as a cause (I don't), Atheism+ is really the main hindrance to it. I agree with KichigaiNeko, the more I look at that site, the more I am convinced they're transforming into a religion.

[Jackalope]

I think talking about their forum on another forum is also against their rules.

Good. Let's do that.

[TaraJo]

I think talking about their forum on another forum is also against their rules.

How often do they actually enforce that? I know of some people who have been highly critical of atheism+ on other sites, but they still aren't on their banned list.

I figure their next step would be to ban people for simply being a member of sites they don't like. I mean, how many people could see them banning someone, just for being a member of the Amazing Atheist's site?