Announcement about RDF

[CJ]

Speaking of Cali, has anyone seen him around? He already is a member here but I haven't seen him since the debacle.

Flora has sent him an email but AFAIK he has not responded to hat yet or beeb seen on either forum. I hope he's alright, either that or on a plan to Los Angeles with a real nuke for Josh!

[natselrox]

Good to have you here, mate.

Too bad your project was nipped in the bud! We were getting some real good essays. I saved all of them just now on my hard drive!

[SnowLeopard]

I went and looked at my thread about Dawkins being at the Edinburgh Science festival, Darwinsbulldog commented on it and I replied, now it's just me talking to myself and there is no trace of his posts ever having existed.

It's like theres been a fucking military coup or something.

[Bella Fortuna]

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

[Darkchilde]

I went and looked at my thread about Dawkins being at the Edinburgh Science festival, Darwinsbulldog commented on it and I replied, now it's just me talking to myself and there is no trace of his posts ever having existed.

It's like theres been a fucking military coup or something.

Yes, we have 5 confirmed account deletions up to now: CJ, Mazille, Darwinsbulldog, kiki, and Valdez. More than 15000 posts lost, and most of them contributions in Debunking Creationism, General Science, Evolution and Natural Selection.

[Witticism]

I had't been on the RDF for very long before they pulled the plug in this synapse-scorchingly stupid manner, but I'm truly sorry for all those who have invested their time and effort, especially (but not exclusively) the mods, who did a great job over there.

I hope the new format turns out to work for whatever they intend it to and will not be used to silence dissent in debates about science, philosophy and religion.
If the RDF manages a "fresh start", so will the community. I already see lots of familiar faces from over there, I'm looking forward to meeting some of those that left the RDF after the last change for the first time, and of course those that never started to post there in the first place.
To new beginnings!

Hey! Durro!

...about the game... (or is it a bad time right now?)

If you can get all 18 surviving players here, I'll restart the game here tomorrow from 7am with day round #2.

If not, we can start a new one (but not until later in the week) and have some Rationalia dudes join in. Oh wait, that would be us now. No more us and them. I always had a foot in both camps, but that's been taken away.

I'm open to suggestions re the Mafia Game. It was getting bloody interesting.

I'm all for this!

I know now's probably not the best time to be worrying about a game when our beloved(?) mod has got bigger things to worry about, but not knowing who killed me is just killing me!

Wow - I didn't expect things to pick up again so quickly. Hope we can continue, but I'd be in for a new game, too.

... the game ... I'm getting the gang together ... we are going to finish that game FFS ... I want to be in one game where I last for more than one night!

[Strontium Dog]

Yes, we have 5 confirmed account deletions up to now: CJ, Mazille, Darwinsbulldog, kiki, and Valdez. More than 15000 posts lost, and most of them contributions in Debunking Creationism, General Science, Evolution and Natural Selection.

That is vandalism, pure and simple. It is completely indefensible. I want to hear what Dawkins has to say about this.

[Witticism]

I went and looked at my thread about Dawkins being at the Edinburgh Science festival, Darwinsbulldog commented on it and I replied, now it's just me talking to myself and there is no trace of his posts ever having existed.

It's like theres been a fucking military coup or something.

Yes, we have 5 confirmed account deletions up to now: CJ, Mazille, Darwinsbulldog, kiki, and Valdez. More than 15000 posts lost, and most of them contributions in Debunking Creationism, General Science, Evolution and Natural Selection.

Well Josh certainly has put the 'clear' in to 'Clear thinking Oasis'

[klr]

Yes, we have 5 confirmed account deletions up to now: CJ, Mazille, Darwinsbulldog, kiki, and Valdez. More than 15000 posts lost, and most of them contributions in Debunking Creationism, General Science, Evolution and Natural Selection.

That is vandalism, pure and simple. It is completely indefensible. I want to hear what Dawkins has to say about this.

+1,000,000. And I would say that the total number of deleted posts for those 5 users is actually well over 30,000. :pissed:

[Witticism]

Anyone told Pappa ?

Boy, is he in for one hell of a shock.

I was a bit surprised to find 70-odd account activation request emails on my phone when I woke up this morning.

Get those fingers working ... they're me mates waiting to join ... hurry up now

[Mazille]

Yes, we have 5 confirmed account deletions up to now: CJ, Mazille, Darwinsbulldog, kiki, and Valdez. More than 15000 posts lost, and most of them contributions in Debunking Creationism, General Science, Evolution and Natural Selection.

That is vandalism, pure and simple. It is completely indefensible. I want to hear what Dawkins has to say about this.

+1,000,000. And I would say that the total number of deleted posts for those 5 users is actually well over 30,000. :pissed:

CJ alone had well over 10.000, as far as I remember.

[DoctorE]

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

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

[Apollonius]

Track the fall:

This is a good site to watch what happens when a busy site implodes:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/richarddawkins.net

Right now people are still checking in and fooling around. Hit this is a week once people give up and see what the charts do.

[klr]

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

I didn't know he cared ... or didn't care. Wait ...

[natselrox]

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

I didn't know he cared ... or didn't care. Wait ...

WTF? He defriended me as well!!!

Is he nuts? I'm not buying any more of his t-shirts then!