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by Sisifo » Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:48 am
Welcome everyone!
Indeed RDF has proved for good that there is no such thing as intelligent design. I have never been active in there, nor do I know anything of that person Josh, but for sure this has been one of the dumbiest movements I have ever seen in project management. There are one thousand ways to redesign, improve or simply change a project, but after reading the posts minute after minute of what was going on, I think they have simply chosen in every single case the worst way to do every step. Mr. Timonen has done the impossible: Lose the biggest "customer" share in the online atheists market. Enrage and create an strike of experienced staff members, and fuck up a brand product that had a holyness halo around it. I am wordless. Bella will know more for sure, but I can't think how could Timonen survive a RL CV check-up. I would not let him manage a monopolistic candy store in a school of rich children!
Living in a comunist country, I am frightfully surprised of the trend of atheists groups to play a "daddy knows best" system. Rationalia apart of that, of course, where a more accurate spirit of "Daddy knows shit", reigns...
Now I am very interested about these changes. As forums get their personality from its members and its system, I am very interested about seeing the new Ratz personality with all these good members adding their personality and knowledge.
About RDF, I am very very eager to see what is the "new project". RD himself and RDF have always tried to push an elitist approach to atheism, something that I consider it actually backfires the secularization of the anglo society (and just the anglo society; from all the good speakers on pro of an atheistic view, RD has been the less universalistic of them all. Being Spanish and living in Asia, I am sore about the anglocentrism of the RD phenomenon).
But on the other hand it all smells as a profesionalism of the RD online circle. Profesionalist should be read profit seeker. More exlusive content, and I guess a "pay-per-view" system... It is so paralel to the battles of China and Vietnam against Facebook and Google, that it's scary.
I hope that not many of those who have been insulted and mistreated in RDF will come back when it restarts. But I know that many will. The behavioral pattern of RDF resembles too much to a religion. Gawd has a plan that you cannot understand, come back and your sins will be forgotten...
For everyone, it is the time to evolve.