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This is the thing, all it takes is, what, a couple of clicks and you can see the whole story - what was posted on RDF, Peter's blog post and that's about it, right there. Josh was/is a control freak... but without a friend/contact like that, Richard would probably not have started a forum in the fir...

No.

it's a hideous idea.

I'm increasingly of the view that we do our cause more harm by shutting up about a travest of justice for the 'greater good' than we do by standing up and arguing for what is right, e very single time even if it is not politically expedient to our cause. A travesty of justice?? Seriously, this is g...

ahhhh, fair point mate. I see what you mean, and the labour/cannabis analogy is a good one. I did bristle a bit at RD's "outrage" post, and I think the thing that rankled was that he seems to have been taken in by Timonen's version of events.. I guess it's the beauty of being an atheist though - we ...

No, it's made me examine the entire purpose for the foundation existing in the first place. Like it or not, the forum was a huge part of its work, and switching to a closer and more tightly moderated forums seems to be more in the interests of Richard Dawkins' PR than the wider goals he claims to s...

I still care in the sense that the information publicly propagated about the forum staff is completely misleading. Sure they are generally anonymous, and known only by their forum names, but it must suck magnificently to see mistruths about you aired so publicly. They have my complete support. It s...

I didn't fully engage in the RDF forums, largely because at the point in time when they launched, I was stinging from not one, but two prior internet screwups of epic scale. I was involved in the aborted attempt to set up a version of the NCSE in the UK - the 'BCSE'. Haven't heard of it? good. it wa...