First reaction by Richard Dawkins.

[skintbuthappy]

On RDF at this very moment, RD is online and reported as "reading a topic in Announcements"

PM function seems to be snafu though....

Damnation :pissed:

[Mazille]

RD has spoken ... supporting Josh all the way:

http://forum.richarddawkins.net/viewtop ... 7&t=110356

I felt that coming.
He is truly either senile and Josh leads him like a sheep, or he has no regard for other people. Either way, I know whose books I won't buy any longer. You have broken my trust in you and I shall not forgive you.


(Also, it looks like he actually read some posts here.)

[Horwood Beer-Master]

So what?

Either he was being kept informed about all this - in which case there's nothing for him to find out about.

Or he wasn't, in which case all the relevant criticisms will have been deleted, and he's not going to find out about it through reading the forums.

[cowiz]

Oh dear

[skintbuthappy]

See here the nub of the matter.

[virphen]

The pathetic thing is it focusses on the absolute worst of the reaction, while completely ignoring all the perfectly calm, rational expressions of frustration and concern made by hundreds of people.

[Bella Fortuna]

Yep, someone's at least reported back to him some specific phrasing, if nothing else. Too bad he couldn't see behind the heat of it and acknowledge the real hurt and betrayal many feel. Just nit-pick the unsavoury details and you'll never have to address the valid larger issues...

[skintbuthappy]

Damn you, Mazille, you beat me to it by one minute!

[normal]

My, my.

[Animavore]

The pathetic thing is it focusses on the absolute funniest of the reaction, while completely ignoring all the perfectly calm, rational expressions of frustration and concern made by hundreds of people.

[Elessarina]

(Also, it looks like he actually read some posts here.)

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What are you basing that on?

[Equivokate]

*very disappointing*

[CJ]

[Flora]

You will notice that the forum has in fact been closed to comments (not taken down) sooner than the 30 days alluded to in the letter. This is purely and simply because of the over-the-top hostility of the comments that were immediately sent in.

We originally posted a private message to the moderators only asking them not to use the information in the foundation's database to cause trouble, email Richard en masse, ask all of the users to go to a separate forum, or anything like that. We take the privacy of the users' data held by the foundation seriously—to that end the data shouldn't be used to solicit and promote other services. This is not what our users signed up for. This was only directed toward the small group of moderators, who had the access to the administration panel. Against the foundation's wishes, they turned around and posted this message publicly in the forum, and many people misinterpreted this to be directed at regular users. We were not telling the regular users what they could and couldn't do, they were all welcome to move to a separate forum. This public posting of personal communication, along with several inappropriate posts made by our very own moderators, convinced the foundation to close the forum down and make it read-only.

From that, it looks like all those OTT insults directed at Josh were made by the moderators, which isn't true. You all know that but the thousands of people reading the announcements won't.

[Mazille]

(Also, it looks like he actually read some posts here.)

What are you basing that on?

He quoted some statements about Josh that were made here word for word.