Announcement about RDF

[JimC]

Durro wrote:

...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. ...

+ 1 million...

I was thinking about this earlier. I don't want rationalia to become like one of those engagement parties where the girl's friends stand around at one end of the room, and the guy's friends at the other... Mingle, people! Exchange bodily fluids! (OK, that may be going a little far...)

I promise to share my random musings about gin equally with the influxers (is that a word?) and the oldfluxers...

[Lion IRC]

Glad to see you here, we need some people fighting the good fight!

Ooootstanding to see you here too!.
I promise to "go easy on you." as usual.
Lion (IRC)

[AndreD]

Another refugee here.
I see quite a few familiar faces, so at least I'm in the right place... I hope.

Does anyone know if Gallstones or many of the Politics regulars made it here (I noticed a couple like Matt H, SnowLeopard, Virphen, and Nine are here )?

I guess eXc is chopped liver.

I didn't see you there!

Have you posted recently at rd.net? I remember your posts about a year back then you seemed to drop off.. >.>

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I'm afraid a mass exodus of folks from RDnet to Ratz will come at a detriment to Ratz. No offense to anybody (I started my online "Atheist journey" at RDnet), but this forum is neither for atheist apologetics nor christian apologetics. I really have no interest in coming to Ratz and have to fight with random Christians, Mulsims, or Randians. if anything I feel Ratz is a humanist forum rather than an atheist one.

I can't see us picking up anywhere near as many of those as RD.net did - they were attracted to Dawkins' name. A few might be fun for a while but I can't see us being beset with chew-toys.

[irreligionist]

Also can someone please explain to this dullard...

Doesn't the RDF closure mean that it's simply going to open up again in a month or so? Apparently we're not going to "loose" our usernames & logins, but is it not still going to have a forum, or is that all in the past?

Confused.

As far as I can tell, it means they will have something like the front page, but with the facility for people to post their own articles if some supermod oks the post.

The logins are already linked, although it appears some (Mazille for one?) may have already been banned for being vociferous in their protests over what has taken place today.

Right now, it's hard for me to imagine posting on anything they put together.

Yep +1

[eXcommunicate]

Another refugee here.
I see quite a few familiar faces, so at least I'm in the right place... I hope.

Does anyone know if Gallstones or many of the Politics regulars made it here (I noticed a couple like Matt H, SnowLeopard, Virphen, and Nine are here )?

I guess eXc is chopped liver.

I didn't see you there!

Have you posted recently at rd.net? I remember your posts about a year back then you seemed to drop off.. >.>

I have been posting there again lately, mostly about this Teabagger business, but then this whole shutdown thing happened out of the blue.

[virphen]

+ 1 million...

I was thinking about this earlier. I don't want rationalia to become like one of those engagement parties where the girl's friends stand around at one end of the room, and the guy's friends at the other... Mingle, people! Exchange bodily fluids! (OK, that may be going a little far...)

I promise to share my random musings about gin equally with the influxers (is that a word?) and the oldfluxers...

As long as we all get invited to the piss-ups there shouldn't be a problem?

Nice to see you AndreD .

[Bella Fortuna]

+ 1 million...

I was thinking about this earlier. I don't want rationalia to become like one of those engagement parties where the girl's friends stand around at one end of the room, and the guy's friends at the other... Mingle, people! Exchange bodily fluids! (OK, that may be going a little far...)

I promise to share my random musings about gin equally with the influxers (is that a word?) and the oldfluxers...

As long as we all get invited to the piss-ups there shouldn't be a problem?

Nice to see you AndreD .

We have a history of some pretty mighty piss-ups around here, both real and virtual...

[Ameri Boi]

I anticipate a mass exodus of folks from RDnet to Ratz will come at a detriment to Ratz. No offense to anybody (I started my online "Atheist journey" at RDnet), but this forum is neither for atheist apologetics nor christian apologetics. I really have no interest in coming to Ratz and have to fight with random Christians, Mulsims, or Randians. If anything I feel Ratz is a humanist forum rather than an atheist one.

but...but but...the fun!


<---- I wanna feel that again

[Bella Fortuna]

I anticipate a mass exodus of folks from RDnet to Ratz will come at a detriment to Ratz. No offense to anybody (I started my online "Atheist journey" at RDnet), but this forum is neither for atheist apologetics nor christian apologetics. I really have no interest in coming to Ratz and have to fight with random Christians, Mulsims, or Randians. If anything I feel Ratz is a humanist forum rather than an atheist one.

but...but but...the fun!


<---- I wanna feel that again

^^^ That is a good majority of what we're about here. We're a community of friends who support each other and have fun together. We have our spats, too, but we're mainly like the pub you stop into to meet up with the auld gang and chat about everything and nothing.

[Feck]

I'm afraid a mass exodus of folks from RDnet to Ratz will come at a detriment to Ratz. No offense to anybody (I started my online "Atheist journey" at RDnet), but this forum is neither for atheist apologetics nor christian apologetics. I really have no interest in coming to Ratz and have to fight with random Christians, Mulsims, or Randians. if anything I feel Ratz is a humanist forum rather than an atheist one.

You can just not argue with people if you don't want to And will everyone who arrived here tonight stay and be regular posters .. probably not.

I can't see floods of people coming here to argue with us lot . RDF of some sort will be back up and running soon and the people looking for a fight will go there like they always have I presume .
Quite a few people have signed up tonight and are already getting the feel of the place

[Rum]

For those, like me, who are waking up to a brand new and exciting day... ...and can't be arsed to wade through zillions of posts, I have discovered (after wading through zillions of posts) that posting has been totally disabled at RD now. They were originally going to leave it open for 30 days but appear to have been rather unprepared for the reaction...so much for planning then. And consideration.

[eXcommunicate]

I'm afraid a mass exodus of folks from RDnet to Ratz will come at a detriment to Ratz. No offense to anybody (I started my online "Atheist journey" at RDnet), but this forum is neither for atheist apologetics nor christian apologetics. I really have no interest in coming to Ratz and have to fight with random Christians, Mulsims, or Randians. if anything I feel Ratz is a humanist forum rather than an atheist one.

You can just not argue with people if you don't want to And will everyone who arrived here tonight stay and be regular posters .. probably not.

I can't see floods of people coming here to argue with us lot . RDF of some sort will be back up and running soon and the people looking for a fight will go there like they always have I presume .
Quite a few people have signed up tonight and are already getting the feel of the place

No, I completely understand. A lot of people just need a place to vent for now. And as far as I can tell the "New" and "Improved" RD.net won't really be a place people will feel they can participate in with any regularity. It's possible I am misinterpreting what Josh said in his announcement, but in sounds like they are going towards some kind of "fora" format where mods dictate just about everything that gets posted. While that format is fine for a new startup website (I've had a similar idea for a new website floating around in my head), it is a disaster for a website with such a huge and dedicated existing user base. Anyway, I am not telling anyone with a differing opinion to bugger off, I'm just saying the flavor of this forum is decidedly humanist in nature, leaning towards hedonism with a huge dash of chill pill. This is not a place for polemicists, regardless of their ideology.

[Feck]

I'm afraid a mass exodus of folks from RDnet to Ratz will come at a detriment to Ratz. No offense to anybody (I started my online "Atheist journey" at RDnet), but this forum is neither for atheist apologetics nor christian apologetics. I really have no interest in coming to Ratz and have to fight with random Christians, Mulsims, or Randians. if anything I feel Ratz is a humanist forum rather than an atheist one.

You can just not argue with people if you don't want to And will everyone who arrived here tonight stay and be regular posters .. probably not.

I can't see floods of people coming here to argue with us lot . RDF of some sort will be back up and running soon and the people looking for a fight will go there like they always have I presume .
Quite a few people have signed up tonight and are already getting the feel of the place

No, I completely understand. A lot of people just need a place to vent for now. And as far as I can tell the "New" and "Improved" RD.net won't really be a place people will feel they can participate in with any regularity. It's possible I am misinterpreting what Josh said in his announcement, but in sounds like they are going towards some kind of "fora" format where mods dictate just about everything that gets posted. While that format is fine for a new startup website (I've had a similar idea for a new website floating around in my head), it is a disaster for a website with such a huge and dedicated existing user base. Anyway, I am not telling anyone with a differing opinion to bugger off, I'm just saying the flavor of this forum is decidedly humanist in nature, leaning towards hedonism with a huge dash of chill pill. This is not a place for polemicists, regardless of their ideology.

This is true but we do have have ways of dealing with that

[Flora]

They were originally going to leave it open for 30 days but appear to have been rather unprepared for the reaction...so much for planning then. And consideration.

They were informed a while ago about possible and probable reactions from the membership if they just threw the forum away. They also experienced a bit of a rough ride from staff in the last few weeks so they knew that people would go bananas if they dumped the forum.