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Originally Posted by shakran
Why in the hell should we pay for the traffic for domestic jarheads to come in and insult the cars the board is centered on? It's a Honda board. Not a "Honda Plus Whatever Any Asshole Off The Street Feels Like Talking About" board.
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It looks like I'm rather biased 'cause, if I were a member of said forum, I would welcome people to come in and debate the merits of various cars. I was also assuming the board would make more money with increased traffic but that's just me.
If the debates were nothing more than trolls exchanging pejoratives then I'd agree with changing policy (although I'd still keep it if it were making money). I'd similarly agree if the existing members were not interested in debate. In face, I think I described such actions as being "prudent."
That doesn't mean that the feelings of the board members aren't sad. They used to gladly engage in debate. It used to be the only part of the board that non-Christians were allowed on. There was no trolling and threads remained civil despite being heated. What happened to their old attitude?
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Same with these guys. they're running a Christianity board. If you want to push the atheistic belief, go find an atheist board.
If you want to have an atheist/Christian showdown, then find a board that caters to it or start your own.
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Push atheism on an atheist board?
There used to be a good board that catered to it but something happened to them and I'm not sure exactly what that is so I thought I'd share it with my friends here at the TFP...
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Originally Posted by mcgeedo
knife, you appear to be arguing that any particular board should have a dissenters' subforum. Please correct me if I'm not understanding you.
Why should they? Just because you think they should?
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Yes!
No, of course not. I think it's helpful for any advocacy site to have a dissenters' sub-forum, as you call it, to allow critical examination of their core beliefs. Otherwise, it's much easier to fool yourself and fall into self delusion and that's just sad and pathetic.
The TFP doesn't need such a things 'cause it doesn't promote on any one point of view.
I think it would benefit Christian forums spiritually to keep their debate forums contentious. There were many people in that forum and I'm sure they were there for a reason. It had been there for years and now they're enacting a strange turn of policy. This is sad, weird and interesting. What's up with that? What has changed in these people...
I've learned a lot from that forum and I hope others did as well (in fact, people have testified that they have). I don't think it'll be nearly as good a learning experience with this new policy and I think that's sad...