Announcement about RDF

[Bella Fortuna]

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!

Maybe someone should start a new FB group... :twisted:

[Blip]

... 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!

And one more player arrives unscathed

[Babel]

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

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

Honestly, the bold part seems plausible. Or does it?

[fretmeister]

I made it!!

So WTF is going on?

A few years ago Music Radar tried this - so everyone threatened to not buy any magazines from Future publishing. Seemed to do the trick.


People were attracted to the forum because of REASON - but they stayed because of the people.

Blog it people - get RD himself to answer.

http://reasonaboveall.livejournal.com/

[Twoflower]

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.

Make that 6. MY was deleted last year and I had about 3000.

[hackenslash]

Right: Finally caught up. A couple of things.

Anybody whose account has not yet bee deleted, pease go to your user profile at RDF and change your location to http://www.rationalia.com, and change your user avatar to .

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q301 ... onalia.jpg

If ypu have a Youtube channel, share the video or make your own. These three measures are about all we have to let people know where to find us. I've had a few e-mails, and a few PMs at youtube, so some should already be on their way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyLnxu19DM8

Direct download link for video: https://www.yousendit.com/download/RmND ... a1h2Wmc9PQ

I see that all blue mods have been demodded except for Kiore. Still no sign of Cali, who hasn't logged on since 7:44 yesterday am. I hoping he doesn't do anything precipitous, as it would be better if we got the forum archived first, since I know he doesn't have all his content saved offline, only the big recent posts. I'm about to go save all the boilerplate posts now, just in case something goes wrong with the autoarchives (at least three peole I know of are attempting an autoarchive).

I would also like to extend my gratitude to the lovely peeps here at rationalia for opening their doors to us and allowing us to vent all over their nice unclean forum. Feel free to donate toward the running costs, as they are maintained here by the members on a voluntary basis.

Cheers.

[Comte de Saint-Germain]

Anyone know when this new discussion area is to go live? I don't quite understand the sense of shutting down a forum when the alternative isn't available..

As for this autoarchive business, will this archive the entire forum? And will this be searchable? I would be very much interested in recovering several of my posts on Nietzsche, which I have not been able to find after the search engine went offline a while back. There are quite a few that I invested quite a bit of time in, and I would regret losing them altogether..

[hackenslash]

Anyone know when this new discussion area is to go live? I don't quite understand the sense of shutting down a forum when the alternative isn't available..

As for this autoarchive business, will this archive the entire forum? And will this be searchable? I would be very much interested in recovering several of my posts on Nietzsche, which I have not been able to find after the search engine went offline a while back. There are quite a few that I invested quite a bit of time in, and I would regret losing them altogether..

I can only speak for myself. The autoarchive program I'm using is new to me, so I can't tell if it's searchable, but it will indeed archive the whole forum. Hopefully, I got someof the deleted content out before the users were deleted. I'm fairly sure that DB hadn't been deleted yet.

[M]

I just logged on there, picked up a pm and sent one back.

It is my feeling that this was bound to happen after the purge of autumn 2008. I also believe that RD knows exactly what is going on and that actually, he wants rid of the forum altogether, that it is too big a monkey on his back. Let's be honest, he's not a man of the people (I'm with Mrs CJ on this one) and some of us are just not the right kind of person; intellectual snobbery always existed on the site from some parties, which is why Dawks came into being.

It's just a shame nobody there had the balls to come clean about it nor the manners to deal with people in a civilised way.

[Alan B]

In view of the hacking attempt last year (still don't know who was responsible, but I suspect some irate theist), could it be that the organisers of this 'coup' at RDF are in fact closet theists? It would explain a lot, methinks...

The creotards and the ID crowd as well as all the other godbotherers must be laughing out loud and rubbing their hands in glee at RDFs demise.

[Heresiarch]

OK, it works.



http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q301 ... onalia.jpg

You can also set website, facebook, myspace and twitter in your profile to point here if you don't have then set to something useful already.

[fuck you & fuck your god]

Is there any way to restore deleted posts? Some kind of internal archive, or journaling function?

[natselrox]

Still no sign of Cali, who hasn't logged on since 7:44 yesterday am. I hoping he doesn't do anything precipitous, as it would be better if we got the forum archived first, since I know he doesn't have all his content saved offline, only the big recent posts. I'm about to go save all the boilerplate posts now, just in case something goes wrong with the autoarchives (at least three peole I know of are attempting an autoarchive).

On the contrary, hack, I think Cali saves all of his posts offline! Still, I'll try to save as much as I can!

[Fallible]

I'm more than a little surprised that our new avatars are still up over there.

[ozewiezeloose]

Done, Hack!

One a side note:

We had intended to leave the forum fully-funtioning for 30 days, but due to the inappropriate posts by some users and moderators, we have decided to leave the forum in a read-only state.

What on earth is he talking about?

S.