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RE: An Atheist Forum for Religious People
January 22, 2015 at 5:35 pm
(January 22, 2015 at 5:24 pm)activeatheist Wrote: So... If an issue is urgent and is happening before 30 days.... no point trying your site? There is such a thing as discretion. It's something I employ quite often across the forums I cover. Someone promotes their own T-shirt business.... sure block it. But blocking newspaper articles and petitions? Really? SMH
What makes this "cause" any less important than any other? The whole "cause" as you put it is one that we share surely? If not then your site is very poorly named.
As for getting over myself.... you're a mod. You're not a god.
Dude, just follow the fucking forum rules. It's not that hard.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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RE: An Atheist Forum for Religious People
January 22, 2015 at 5:39 pm
Come off it. This is a discussion forum. You could simply quote the article and then we could talk about it. If you have a petition, then going somewhere and soliciting a community you don't know isn't the right way anyhow. This is exactly why the 30/30 rule exists.
We're a discussion forum first and foremost. We don't have time for people with no investment in the community shitting and running.
If you'd like to create an introduction, join in on some discussions, let us get to know you---you'd find that quite a few of us would take you up on a petition or something like that. Instead, you came in, broke our rules off the bat, and then whinged about it. Good luck with that approach.
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RE: An Atheist Forum for Religious People
January 22, 2015 at 5:40 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 5:40 pm by Faith No More.)
(January 22, 2015 at 5:24 pm)activeatheist Wrote: So... If an issue is urgent and is happening before 30 days.... no point trying your site? There is such a thing as discretion. It's something I employ quite often across the forums I cover. Someone promotes their own T-shirt business.... sure block it. But blocking newspaper articles and petitions? Really? SMH
What makes this "cause" any less important than any other? The whole "cause" as you put it is one that we share surely? If not then your site is very poorly named.
As for getting over myself.... you're a mod. You're not a god.
So, wait you think consistently applying the rules is Draconian but giving the mods discretion over the rules is better? The less subjectivity it takes to run a site, the better. Otherwise, you'd probably be banned already.
And if your whole online activism thing is ruined by one site not allowing your content, perahps you should re-think your approach.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: An Atheist Forum for Religious People
January 22, 2015 at 5:43 pm
This place is so Draconian, they let me run around with impunity!
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RE: An Atheist Forum for Religious People
January 22, 2015 at 5:50 pm
Methinks we scared him off.