this is hugely embarrassing for regular atheists
Re: this is hugely embarrassing for regular atheists
Fans of Richard Dawkins ( I leave out the bold and the shouting) Fred look where you are ! learn why we are here, RDF may have been happy to host comments by ignorant people but THIS IS RATIONALIA .
Oh and BTW I am mentally ill ... fuck sanity if you are representative sample of it .
Edit has it gone yet >???
Oh and BTW I am mentally ill ... fuck sanity if you are representative sample of it .
Edit has it gone yet >???
Give me the wine , I don't need the bread
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Re: this is hugely embarrassing for regular atheists
The "don't let the door hit you on the way out" atmosphere is wonderful.
Bottom line: People shouldn't be making shit up about Josh and Richard's love child. I don't care if its just one person, the actions of a vocal few can be used by Josh or the fundies or whomever to paint us all negatively. That's all I'm afraid of. Can you understand that?
This is what it looks like: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/ ... st_how.php
Its apples and oranges. Generation Rescue apparently condoned that garbage. But it doesn't matter to our critics. Its ammunition, can you understand that?
I'm not telling people to be emotionless robots. I, too, am still saddened by all this.
Vent all you want. We're entitled to complain - and complain loudly as long as the "official" story being propagated is all lies. I feel stupid reminding you all that once you put anything out on the Internet (e.g. personal information on social networking sites, or libelous rantings), you lose control.
We don't need to act like jackasses. That's not how one fights jackassery.
My 2¢.
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Bottom line: People shouldn't be making shit up about Josh and Richard's love child. I don't care if its just one person, the actions of a vocal few can be used by Josh or the fundies or whomever to paint us all negatively. That's all I'm afraid of. Can you understand that?
This is what it looks like: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/ ... st_how.php
Its apples and oranges. Generation Rescue apparently condoned that garbage. But it doesn't matter to our critics. Its ammunition, can you understand that?
I'm not telling people to be emotionless robots. I, too, am still saddened by all this.
Vent all you want. We're entitled to complain - and complain loudly as long as the "official" story being propagated is all lies. I feel stupid reminding you all that once you put anything out on the Internet (e.g. personal information on social networking sites, or libelous rantings), you lose control.
We don't need to act like jackasses. That's not how one fights jackassery.
My 2¢.
*dons fire retardant suit*
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Re: this is hugely embarrassing for regular atheists
Oh really? Then why was the forum such a headache for richard? if the moderators had of done a great job there wouldn't be a problem.jd wrote:The Moderators did do an excellent job there
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I have to disagree with this argument of yours. I don't know how much you've read, but from what I've seen it was a mix of factors. In my opinion the mods did the best they could and Josh should take most of the blame, from the genesis of the problem to its disgusting conclusion.Fred Kite wrote:Oh really? Then why was the forum such a headache for richard? if the moderators had of done a great job there wouldn't be a problem.jd wrote:The Moderators did do an excellent job there
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Re: this is hugely embarrassing for regular atheists
Yes, really. You would know this if you knew anything about those forums.Fred Kite wrote:jd wrote:The Moderators did do an excellent job thereFred Kite wrote:Oh really?
Because the website owner knows nothing about Web 2.0 and completely disregards it! Why is this so difficult for you to understand?Fred Kite wrote:Then why was the forum such a headache for richard?
Incorrect, but so has been almost everything you've said here, so good job at being consistent.Fred Kite wrote:if the moderators had of done a great job there wouldn't be a problem.
Re: this is hugely embarrassing for regular atheists
you people are unbelievable. you're quote mining now.Randydeluxe wrote:That is obviously incorrect, and can be understood by just looking at the thing. It's still available for being looked at, you know.Fred Kite wrote:said the richard dawkins.net forum was NOT an atheist forum - it was a FORUM for FANS of RICHARD DAWKINS.
Bye.
2 quick points.
1. I said that the richard d forum was NOT an atheist forum, it was a forum for fans of richard dawkins and I met christians, jews, secularists, humanists, students, deists and theists of many denominations there.
EVERYONE was welcome at rd.net.
2. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ATHEIST FORUM.
There are forums where people discuss...where some or many maybe ATHEIST but the notion that there is such a thing as an ATHEIST forum is so fucking stupid I don't know where to begin.
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I'm not embarrassed as I am an irregular atheist, so I don't count
It's a piece of piss to be cowiz, but it's not cowiz to be a piece of piss. Or something like that.
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tl;dr
has a derail been attempted yet? if not, why not?
has a derail been attempted yet? if not, why not?
Re: this is hugely embarrassing for regular atheists
why are you twisting what I'm saying?ED209 wrote: Jesus Christ Fred, do you really not understand that the bile was posted here - on a forum completely unconnected to Richard Dawkins - and even then only after the RDF mods had been sacked, thousands of posts deleted, and the RDF forum closed? How do you imagine that is controlled by the mods of RDF?
If you want to know why people aren't really liking you much, you might reflect that you continue to belittle the thousands of hours of tireless and unpaid work the mods for Dawkins' contributed to that site only to be completely erased by Dawkins' IT monkey. Why not go ask your 'psychology pal' about that aspect to your behaviour, he might be able to diagnose you off-the-cuff as well.
Richard dawkins said, before the kerfuffle that he wanted to eradicate the sort of bile that was appearing on the forum...the sort of bile that moderators were supposed to clean up and moderate.
Okums razor stuff, ED209. if the moderators had of kept the forum civil, richard would have been delighted with it.
I didn't come in here to be liked. I came in here to voice my opinion. if you don't agree with that. Fine. That's all well and good. but to disagree and then throw insults at me is precisely the sort of bile that richard dawkins didn't like.
Re: this is hugely embarrassing for regular atheists
Well, now it all makes sense. It was a site for fans of Richard Dawkins. It was demolished for failure to be mere fandom, and will now be returned to that state, as is his right.
Thanks Fred, I'll try to be less vicious, vindictive, rabid and whining in the future. After all, that's what a True Atheist would do. You're quite right; they wouldn't insult a flea.
Thanks Fred, I'll try to be less vicious, vindictive, rabid and whining in the future. After all, that's what a True Atheist would do. You're quite right; they wouldn't insult a flea.
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They did, though. In their spare time. Without pay or, often, acknowledgment from the top.Fred Kite wrote:Richard dawkins said, before the kerfuffle that he wanted to eradicate the sort of bile that was appearing on the forum...the sort of bile that moderators were supposed to clean up and moderate.
Richard Dawkins has proven to be inept when it came to the regular content of the forum. Yeah, there was some garbage. But its the fucking Internet, what do you expect?
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In other news, the moon continues to orbit the earth.
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what's with the childish sarcasm?tytalus wrote:Well, now it all makes sense. It was a site for fans of Richard Dawkins. It was demolished for failure to be mere fandom, and will now be returned to that state, as is his right.
Thanks Fred, I'll try to be less vicious, vindictive, rabid and whining in the future. After all, that's what a True Atheist would do. You're quite right; they wouldn't insult a flea.
It was not demolished for failure to be mere fandom. It was a pain in the neck for richard dawkins because of the amount of bile on there. Richard wanted somewhere people could go to exchange ideas in a civil manner.
The moderators obviously failed in their task to keep things civil. Richard obviously said enough is enough and the rest, as they say, is history.
Re: this is hugely embarrassing for regular atheists
The original decision to change the system was not based on "problematic" behaviour of users, but simply the cost of maintainance, since the huge number of users and the volume of traffic was an indication of the success of the boards (and of the moderation).Fred Kite wrote:Oh really? Then why was the forum such a headache for richard? if the moderators had of done a great job there wouldn't be a problem.jd wrote:The Moderators did do an excellent job there
You've constantly demonstrated, not only your ignorance of what has happened, but also of your unwillingness to learn or accept what actually did. Wilful ignorance is the worst sort of ignorance.
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Re: this is hugely embarrassing for regular atheists
Please provide proof of this assertion. Very soon, if you please.Fred Kite wrote:why are you twisting what I'm saying?ED209 wrote: Jesus Christ Fred, do you really not understand that the bile was posted here - on a forum completely unconnected to Richard Dawkins - and even then only after the RDF mods had been sacked, thousands of posts deleted, and the RDF forum closed? How do you imagine that is controlled by the mods of RDF?
If you want to know why people aren't really liking you much, you might reflect that you continue to belittle the thousands of hours of tireless and unpaid work the mods for Dawkins' contributed to that site only to be completely erased by Dawkins' IT monkey. Why not go ask your 'psychology pal' about that aspect to your behaviour, he might be able to diagnose you off-the-cuff as well.
Richard dawkins said, before the kerfuffle that he wanted to eradicate the sort of bile that was appearing on the forum...the sort of bile that moderators were supposed to clean up and moderate.
Okums razor stuff, ED209. if the moderators had of kept the forum civil, richard would have been delighted with it.
I didn't come in here to be liked. I came in here to voice my opinion. if you don't agree with that. Fine. That's all well and good. but to disagree and then throw insults at me is precisely the sort of bile that richard dawkins didn't like.
BTW, RD had become increasingly involved with the setting of rules and standards on the forum over the past 18 months, with the staff (via Topsy) keeping him in the information and decision making loop on any matter of substance. I really don't know where you're getting your ideas from.
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