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knifemissle, my apologies at the assumption, but it is the only thing I can do based on little to no information. If you aren't part of the staff there you may not know any of the inner workings of the decisions that are made, the day to day amount of spam and moderation that comes into working behind the scenes. Because of my exposure here, I have to assume that it's greater than zero.
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Okay, how about some more information...
Apparently, the forum was purchased by new management. The forum went through a radical software change some time last year so I'm guessing that's when the purchase was made? Here's a post from a moderator in
one of the threads concerning the new policy:
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Originally Posted by theFijian
Oh behave! Is there a rationale for this change I can read anywhere?
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The rationale is simple. The ownership of this site decided that Christian only forums align with LeeD's vision for this site. Also, many Christians members requested this change. Personally, I think that we do need areas where we can edify, teach, and debate each other (Christians). There are over 250 forums in CF and this policy affects only about 50 so the majority of the site is still available to all. |
I'll let this post speak for itself...
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Originally Posted by mcgeedo
"But an atheist going in there just to argue really is just trolling. So they really have every right to close the doors to non believers. I'm not gonna get in their way."
+1 from me. I couldn't have said it better.
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I'm going to make a simple assumption that they just got tired of trolls, plain and simple.
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Why? They want a place to talk about Christianity. Why should they have to put up with a bunch of jackholes in there evangelizing atheism? The same atheists, I might add, who probably get royally pissed when a Christian shows up to spread the word on their college campus.
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You people make me sad. Are my posts so boring that you scrolled through this thread, saw them and thought to yourselves "nah, I bother reading this. It's like he'd have anything to say about these points..."
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Originally Posted by shakran
I used to post on a Honda-oriented board. We finally closed the damned thing to non-japanimport owners because the chevy and ford guys kept coming on to tell us how much our cars suck. It's not that we didn't appreciate the diversity of opinion (dumbassed though it may have been), it's just that we didn't need to read that every day.
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Why didn't the board just create a non-japanimport forum specifically for those kinds of discussions for people willing to engage in them?
Suppose you already had a forum specifically for debates between the merits of Japanese cars and domestic ones and then you pass a policy to forbid anyone supporting domestic cars from posting to said forum. That's exactly what's happening at Christian Forums...
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Originally Posted by Redlemon
Why don't they just have a "Theology (Christian believers only)" subforum and a "Theology (open discussion)" subforum? I expect that the believers only rule allows the discussion of the finer points, which is worthwhile, but they could still allow a section to argue the broader points as well.
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Indeed, that's also my question. It looks like the answer is "we just don't want to talk about that stuff," which is funny 'cause no one forced them to read the debates forums. There was plenty of traffic so if the content was so objectionable, why did they keep coming back?