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Tiberius Offline
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RE: Site changes
January 23, 2010 at 2:23 pm
There wasn't a "merge" though. Off Topic existed in the previous forums, and the "Discussion" forum was specifically for discussion of Atheism, which in this forum has simply been changed to "Atheism".

I think that this being a specific forum dedicated to discussion of atheism, anything that isn't related to atheism in some way and is "general discussion" is off topic by definition.
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RE: Site changes
January 23, 2010 at 2:52 pm (This post was last modified: January 23, 2010 at 2:53 pm by Purple Rabbit.)
As you put it the "General Discussion" is redundant IMO. I think you can have general discussion on atheism since this is a forum on atheism. But now it is clear to me that you mean the frivolity section with that label.
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RE: Site changes
January 23, 2010 at 3:17 pm
The only reason I chose to rename "Discussion" to "Atheism" and change "Off Topic" into "Off Topic / General Discussion" is that in the previous format, people were posting off topic threads into the "Discussion" forum without realising it was in the Atheism section. I thought renaming sections might help people to post threads in more appropriate areas.
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RE: Site changes
January 23, 2010 at 3:20 pm
That's what I get for being fundamentally interested only in "Today's Posts"- I lose the ability to critically examine my siteview
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RE: Site changes
January 24, 2010 at 1:07 pm
I don't use the "today's posts". I check the good old fashioned way, meandering through the specific forums.

You guys are all damn lazy.
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RE: Site changes
January 25, 2010 at 11:52 am
I do the lot.

'New posts', then 'today posts', then 'your posts', then I go through all the remainders in the individual forums. Not lazy - thorough.

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RE: Site changes
January 26, 2010 at 3:31 pm
(January 24, 2010 at 1:07 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote: I don't use the "today's posts". I check the good old fashioned way, meandering through the specific forums.

You guys are all damn lazy.

I'm not even sure what 'today's posts' is Tongue I use newest posts till there are no new posts, then either browse threads myself or wait for some new responses Tongue
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RE: Site changes
January 26, 2010 at 3:49 pm
(January 24, 2010 at 1:07 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote: I don't use the "today's posts". I check the good old fashioned way, meandering through the specific forums.

Thats the way I do it too.
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Tiberius Offline
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RE: Site changes
January 26, 2010 at 3:55 pm
(January 26, 2010 at 3:31 pm)Saerules Wrote: I'm not even sure what 'today's posts' is Tongue I use newest posts till there are no new posts, then either browse threads myself or wait for some new responses Tongue
"newest posts" is meant to show you all the posts that have happened since your last session, but sometimes it messes up when a session restarts and you are still logged in. Hence why I use today's posts, or edit the today's posts link to include more days:
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http://atheistforums.org/search.php?action=getdaily&days=5
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RE: Site changes
January 26, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Nice tip Adrian - deserves elevating somehow Smile
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