Announcement about RDF

[Feck]

If RD just wants his site to discuss what he wants and how he wants, fine, it's his site. I'm outa there. I didn't hang out on RD.net forums to talk about his books or his latest lecture, or whatever.

Forums take on a life of their own and become a community. RD should know that. If he doesn't, he doesn't understand the net and shouldn't have a forum.

Very true, but, in the past, some of us hoped it could be both...

We got called children when they killed OT now we just get deleted . Looks like RD cares more about his little pet Net Nazi than we thought .

[kiki5711]

Here is part of the change. A new trustee. From the front page.Trustee:–noun1.a person, usually one of a body of persons, appointed to administer the affairs of a company, institution, etc.




16. Comment #460668 by Todd Stiefel on February 12, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Hi folks,

Thanks for the warm welcome! I am excited to be a part of the team and am very much looking forward to contributing.

I am essential a full-time freethought activist. I am here to serve you and hopefully make the world a better place. I am always looking for feedback and new ideas. If you have ideas or thoughts you would like to share, feel free to contact me by clicking on my name in this post.

Thanks again. I hope you all have a great weekend and a wonderful Darwin Day.

Other Comments by Todd Stiefel | Rank This Comment | Flag as: [troll] [spam] [offensive]



Todd Stiefel Joins RDFRS as Trustee
by Richard Dawkins
http://richarddawkinsfoundation.org/fou ... RDFRSstaff

---Todd Stiefel lives in Raleigh, NC with his wife, Diana, and their two young children. He graduated cum laude from Duke University. He worked 12 years for Stiefel Laboratories, holding positions in marketing, sales operations and strategy. He was the Chief Strategy Officer, the Enterprise Leadership Team chairman and member of the executive committee of the Board. He was responsible for 250 people including the finance, strategy, risk, facilities, administration and program management functions. He co-led the teams that sold equity to Blackstone and Stiefel Laboratories to GlaxoSmithKline. Todd is a secular humanist, an atheist and full-time freethought activist. He is the Founder and President of the Stiefel Freethought Foundation. His mission is to gain respect for freethinkers and ensure the complete separation of church and state. Todd envisions a world where government favors liberty over dogma and freethinkers are overt, united and influential. He serves on the development committee of Secular Coalition for America and American Atheists and advisory board of Secular Coalition for America, Secular Student Alliance and Atheist Nexus. He also serves on the National Advisory Council (NAC) of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

[JimC]

Can we flag that as troll, spam and offensive?

[klr]

Can we flag that as troll, spam and offensive?

I suspect if we started doing that, our accounts would then be very quickly removed as well, along with our forum posts. The last thing we need is for yet more content to be removed while Nineberry is trying to back it all up.

[sforza]

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!

Hi Guys,

I'm fucking pissed off. :pissed:

+1
Great to see you hear though

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.

[kiki5711]

Can we flag that as troll, spam and offensive?

you mean my post?

[NineBerry]

Someone doing marketing for a pharma beauty company? They could just have hired a homoeopath.

[CJ]

Can we flag that as troll, spam and offensive?

you mean my post?

No. He means flag the post on the Front Page (FP) at RDF.

[JimC]

Can we flag that as troll, spam and offensive?

you mean my post?

never!

The guy in your post (I picked up on an option in the post...)

Can we flag that as troll, spam and offensive?

I suspect if we started doing that, our accounts would then be very quickly removed as well, along with our forum posts. The last thing we need is for yet more content to be removed while Nineberry is trying to back it all up.

Nineberry is an absolute trojan, and I hope his archival efforts frustrate the evil ones...

[CJ]

Can we flag that as troll, spam and offensive?

you mean my post?

never!

The guy in your post (I picked up on an option in the post...)

Can we flag that as troll, spam and offensive?

I suspect if we started doing that, our accounts would then be very quickly removed as well, along with our forum posts. The last thing we need is for yet more content to be removed while Nineberry is trying to back it all up.

Nineberry is an absolute trojan, and I hope his archival efforts frustrate the evil ones...

An American condom brand?

[NineBerry]

Hey, that is offensive. I was catholic. Don't mention my name in the contexts of condoms or my family will disown me.

JJ

[Ilovelucy]

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!

No offence, but bollocks to that. The only new beginning I'll salute is one that doesn't involve Chalkey and Josh. Otherwise, it's not a new beginning, it's the same old shit, double concentrated and marinated in otter spunk.

[CJ]

Hey, that is offensive. I was catholic. Don't mention my name in the contexts of condoms or my family will disown me.

JJ

They haven't already

[JimC]

Can we flag that as troll, spam and offensive?

you mean my post?

never!

The guy in your post (I picked up on an option in the post...)

Can we flag that as troll, spam and offensive?

I suspect if we started doing that, our accounts would then be very quickly removed as well, along with our forum posts. The last thing we need is for yet more content to be removed while Nineberry is trying to back it all up.

Nineberry is an absolute trojan, and I hope his archival efforts frustrate the evil ones...

An American condom brand?

Did I stuff up the spelling?

Clearly, Chris, I have not your knowledge of American prophylactics...

[Fallible]

Those stupid bastard cunting arsehammocking fuckfaces! Impotent rage, I haz it. Mazille, CJ, Valden, Kiki, you have been disappeared I see. Has ever such a childish, cowardly, fucktarded arse-achingly stupid action ever taken place on teh interwebz? Do you have room for a small, irritable, incandescent, grudge-bearing one?