Announcement about RDF

[locutus7]

Hey all. I've successfully relocated my anti-theist operations to this regime.

[Jerome23]

Josh defriended me on Facebook... do you see me crying?

Really
I think Josh has serious mental problems, perhaps he is undercover christian

I would like to say we would not have him, but of course we welcome sinners, hypocrites and the terminally crap - by definition that's what we (Christians) are

j x

[hackenslash]

My archive is complete. I'm just going to check how much of it is intact.

[Simon_Gardner]

Gallstones was posting a picture of someone giving the middle finger, other mod's supported his views. Rest of us vented our displeasure at the situation. Nothing that wasn't to be expected after being told we were being fucked.

I'd send Josh the exact same picture if I could still post PM's. Crap.

Gallstones has a Facebook page. She posted a non-link to it before everything went tits up but I do know Nora is a F’book friend of hers.

[ficklefiend]

It's as if Dawkins and his henchmen think they own the people who posted on that forum, clearly evidenced by their instruction not to attempt to "'relocate' groups of users to a separate forum".

That was really mean that one. Why do they care if we advertise?

You've just shut the forum! I might not see any of these people again! It matters.

[Bella Fortuna]

It's as if Dawkins and his henchmen think they own the people who posted on that forum, clearly evidenced by their instruction not to attempt to "'relocate' groups of users to a separate forum".

That was really mean that one. Why do they care if we advertise?

You've just shut the forum! I might not see any of these people again! It matters.

What, you didn't realise when you signed up there that you forfeited your rights as an individual, agreed to perpetual mental indentured servitude, and that your identity became sole property of RDF?

Read the small print next time, people!!

[Witticism]

My archive is complete. I'm just going to check how much of it is intact.

Hack,

I just tried to change my avatar [with your www.rationalia.com jpg] over at (once was) RDF's and got this:

The upload was rejected because the uploaded file was identified as a possible attack vector.

Farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrk!

[Fallible]

Oh boobies. Well those which have already been changed are still there.

[Bella Fortuna]

They can stick their bloody attack vector!

[Arcanyn]

Sticking on topic is actually very hard, it's not the way our brains work or the way normal human conversation goes. It stifles debate because it stops new people adding new information. On very strict "on-topic" forums I have been in it often seems like people run out of things to say, because they must stick to such a narrow way of exploring the issue.

Not to mention the fact that going off on tangents is the way that creativity and imagination works. Thinking outside the square, seeing where those tangents lead, and forming logical connections between them and the original topic. How many discoveries were made because someone went off on a tangent and found that through it they were able to answer their original question (think of how Kekule's dream of a snake swallowing its tail gave him the idea for the structure of benzene, for a colourful example).

This is how how things would go under the new forum format:

Posted by Randomchemist

You know, this benzene structure is really tricky to figure out. It seems to me that it should be a nice linear molecule, except all the hydrogen atoms on it all behave chemically identical, which is impossible with a linear molecule.

Posted by Kekule

I was pondering the structure the other night, when I fell asleep and had this weird dream of a snake swallowing its own tail.

Posted by SmallmindedAdmin

The above post is off topic, and shall be deleted forthwith. Kekule is now banned for ignoring repeated warnings not to go off on tangents.

Post that would have been made by Randomchemist had it not been for SmallmindedAdmin

>I was pondering the structure the other night, when I fell asleep and had this weird dream of a snake swallowing its own tail.

A snake swallowing its own tail, as in circular? That would make all the hydrogens equivalent! I think you've figured it out, Kekule! Genius!

[Jerome23]

But the copyright of those posts technically belonged to RD.net and if Josh is not willing to co-operate...

Hey natselrox glad you made it! My understanding of copyright is that it is vested in the author, not the publishing medium. One would have to read the small print of the forum agreement, but given no money changed hands i think all content is still (c) the original authors? Maybe this needs a new thread?

j x

[natselrox]

My archive is complete. I'm just going to check how much of it is intact.

Hack,

I just tried to change my avatar [with your http://www.rationalia.com jpg] over at (once was) RDF's and got this:

The upload was rejected because the uploaded file was identified as a possible attack vector.

Farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrk!

And I can't send PMs! It says "You can't make a post so soon after your last!" :pissed:

[hackenslash]

It's probably flagged the detail, as quite a few of us are now using it. Try this one.

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q301 ... alia-1.jpg

[ozewiezeloose]

Oh boobies. Well those which have already been changed are still there.

Yep. Worked for me, like, 15 minutes ago.

[ficklefiend]

It's probably flagged the detail, as quite a few of us are now using it. Try this one.

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q301 ... alia-1.jpg

next start changing the colours and resizing it slightly? lol.