So, anybody holding their breath for the new forums at RDF?

[Pappa]

Barry or in Welsh, Barri

Actually in Welsh it's "Y Barri" ("The Barry"). The place is so awesome we get a definite article too.

[charlou]

You're messing with us. It's not open. BUT you can always check "Josh's Favorites" Damn every time I hear that guys name I get an urge to spit for some reason. Wonder why?

*hock*

[Pappa]

You're messing with us. It's not open. BUT you can always check "Josh's Favorites" Damn every time I hear that guys name I get an urge to spit for some reason. Wonder why?

*hock*

RD --->

But Josh... he's so talented and awesome....

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You people aren't paying attention, I see.

The new forum IS open. However, there have been a few rule changes. Now, to see the forum you need to have 1,000 posts. And to post there, you need 2,000 posts. So, simply accumulate 1,000 posts and you'll be able to follow the stimulating debates and enjoy the bon homme of fellow atheists.

You're messing with us. It's not open. BUT you can always check "Josh's Favorites" Damn every time I hear that guys name I get an urge to spit for some reason. Wonder why?

The post counts mentions are on the NEW forum, not the old one. You have to have 1,000 posts on a forum you can't see in order to see the forum, and 2,000 posts on a forum you can't post on in order to post on the forum.

Sheesh, it's spelled out clearly in the new FUA, as posted in the new forum.

[Trolldor]

Gee Gawd, I think what you're saying is too subtle, I don't understand it at all.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Gee Gawd, I think what you're saying is too subtle, I don't understand it at all.

Meh, "subtle" and "400-foot mutant fire-breathing lizard-thingy" don't exactly go together.

[Feck]

Well I think I'm banned for saying that Josh fucked the Mods without even Kissing them first (Hellooooooooo Josh do you want to quote mine that ?)

[Trolldor]

Well I think I'm banned for saying that Josh fucked the Mods without even Kissing them first (Hellooooooooo Josh do you want to quote mine that ?)

Josh looks a little creepy imho... like he belongs to NAMBLA.

[Feck]

I've only ever joined 4 forums and I've been deleted from 2 (and one was for copy pasting a scientific paper )

[Don't Panic]

Well I think I'm banned for saying that Josh fucked the Mods without even Kissing them first (Hellooooooooo Josh do you want to quote mine that ?)

Josh looks a little creepy imho... like he belongs to NAMBLA.

He looks like he's young enough to be a victim of NAMBLA.

[kiki5711]

I think we're all jealous that Richard loves Josh more than all of us. It must be one hell of a relationship they have if Richard thought giving 80,000 fans the finger over trusting Josh was worthwhile. I mean any celebrity would be grateful to their fans. It's how they and/or their ideas/music gets to be known and spread.

[amused]

I'm coming into this controversy at the tail end, so I don't have the connection to the RDF forums that a lot of people had. From the description that they've given, I don't think they (RDF) intend to really have a forum again. You will have to submit a topic and that will be moderated first, and then posted for discussion. It's a much more controlled discussion space. I suspect they want to do it that way in order to shield the RDF from quote mining of the forums by their opponents, but I'm just speculating.

Regardless, the way they clumsily shut down the active forums is surprisingly, well, clumsy. But they sure have ample space between them and both rationalia and rationalskeptic now, don't they?

[Feck]

I'm coming into this controversy at the tail end, so I don't have the connection to the RDF forums that a lot of people had. From the description that they've given, I don't think they (RDF) intend to really have a forum again. You will have to submit a topic and that will be moderated first, and then posted for discussion. It's a much more controlled discussion space. I suspect they want to do it that way in order to shield the RDF from quote mining of the forums by their opponents, but I'm just speculating.

Regardless, the way they clumsily shut down the active forums is surprisingly, well, clumsy. But they sure have ample space between them and both rationalia and rationalskeptic now, don't they?

And we have a lot more fun

[Trolldor]

I think we're all jealous that Richard loves Josh more than all of us. It must be one hell of a relationship they have if Richard thought giving 80,000 fans the finger over trusting Josh was worthwhile. I mean any celebrity would be grateful to their fans. It's how they and/or their ideas/music gets to be known and spread.

I don't think 'we' all are at all. I've got less of an attatchment to Richard than I do to my dorm mates, and I don't know most of my dorm mates even by sight.

[kiki5711]

I think we're all jealous that Richard loves Josh more than all of us. It must be one hell of a relationship they have if Richard thought giving 80,000 fans the finger over trusting Josh was worthwhile. I mean any celebrity would be grateful to their fans. It's how they and/or their ideas/music gets to be known and spread.

I don't think 'we' all are at all. I've got less of an attatchment to Richard than I do to my dorm mates, and I don't know most of my dorm mates even by sight.

Well I didn't mean every single person but fans are fans. They are your bread and butter. Ask any celebrity, book writer, singer, actor. I meant it in that way.