Sheshbazzar

Certain Believers have been deceived into swallowing horse shit. -they were warned- but allowed it anyway, and now there is a price to be paid; Revelations 17 and 18


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Sabine Grant

I will refer you to my previous clarification :

http://www.freeratio.org/showpost.ph...8&postcount=74
Derailing is one of prohibitions in The Terms of Use. In such case, reporting it will alert the Moderators and allow them to take the necessary action to remove the derail. We mostly rely on thread participants to report what they deem to be disruptive and violations of The terms of Use.


Indeed, not feeding or fueling such repetitive topics would be helpful. If no participation to such thread, it will die off, slide off the front page and be soon forgotten.
We often encourage Moderators to seek a second opinion while we maintain a check and balance system for each Forum. Such system relies on having more than just one Moderator assigned to each Forum while reports are reviewed by each Section Manager. Across FRDB, Moderators are expected to rely on the content of The Terms of Use (see my above link) as their compass to guide their decisions.

Any Moderation action can be appealed in the Private Feedback Forum. Only the team of Managers and FRDB Owners have access to such private Forum in order for them to review the complaint and investigate it. Complaints include any member's observation of possible bias or/and lack of objectivity on the part of any Staff Member.



Roger, such situations are totally unacceptable. The Terms of Use are supposed to protect all registered members regardless of their religious beliefs and lack of. Abuse of our theist members should be reported. This Forum, BCH, is not to be treated as an isolated island detached from FRDB. Again, mistreatment of theist members and lack of Moderation should be brought up in the Private Feedback Forum.
I like your idea.

Good nature on your part.
I will refer you back to my link above where I detailed under which circumstances and process a member would be banned. To reassure you, it certainly would not be based on a member having a style of communication difficult to comprehend.

All the best back@ you and thank you for your productive feedback.

Sheshbazzar

I have often strongly disagreed with certain views. But in my 10 years here I have never placed anyone on ignore.
Life happens, perspectives change, people change, opinions change, How will you know it and honor and encourage them when they do show a lick of sense if you've closed off your eyes and covered your ears from either seeing or hearing what they have to say?

I read every thread, every post, and poster in BC&H, that is the only way to stay informed and be aware of what is transpiring. I have watched as some people here have literally quadrupled their knowledge since they arrived. I don't judge them by where they are at, but what their ethics reveal about where they are headed.
And for those who are growing and expanding in knowledge and in comprehension, I am here, urging and cheering them on.

spin

For fuck's sake Shesh, shoosh. This is a rationalist forum. I doubt if anyone here cares about your anti-christian crap. It's the sort of inappropriate nonsense in the context of BC&H that makes tergid reading for anyone who is not of your conviction. It's like an old tom pissing everywhere. It is not enjoyable. It is not informative. What's the difference in signal to noise ration between you and mm or aa? I have a long enough ignore list as is.

You don't need to trumpet your anti-christianity here. You can forget about it here, especially in this forum which is about the criticism of biblical literature and related history. It's just more horseshit.

I would like to see more reasonable rational scholarly discourse here and less pissing about. It would make the forum generally more useful.

Sheshbazzar

Well while it may be a rationalist forum, others are invited to participate on an equal basis. I believe myself to be very rational and am therefore unwilling to play religious circumlocution games.
I am still here spin. And as you can see, I will say something other than 'Yay Ha'sooce!'

You have a long ignore list? pity. But it won't hurt my feelings at all if you place my name on it. Your loss old friend.

steve_bnk

הוא מתחיל לרדת גשם .סיימו את ארון הקודש. .אמא שלך הוא חמור

I propose an academic Hebrew and Greek only forum.

Chili

Not to derail this tread any further, but to settle the shit argument for once and for all, my point here was that the passages are iconic and that is why they have charm and draw believers in, and so then: reading these passages is like nourishment to them and will reinforce faith (or what ever you want to call this). So they do not qualify as you suggest because they are nourishing . . . but 'will wither away' because they are second hand to the reader, and therefore did, and must Jesus/Christ come in the flesh, but here now 'to each one of us.'

Nobody says this better than Jn.5:29: "[You] search the scriptures in which you think you have etarnal life -- they also testify on my behalf" (but you fail to come and get it yourself, in verse 40). This verse means that they are iconic, but second hand to you now = like oats that has already been through the horse.

Sheshbazzar

To all concerned. I'll not further discuss any of these matters within this thread.

Lets get back on track in suggesting beneficial improvements to this forum.

Personally I liked the suggestion of limiting the number of posts, or better yet, setting a total word limit to what could be posted by anyone within one day.
That should go a long way in getting rid of needless and vacuous one liners and sniping posts. And perhaps help head off many of these interminable digressions.
And also putting a rein on those obsessive posters who engage in the posting of post after post monologues. Or being bombed with 'walls' of quoted texts.
Perhaps giving all more time to spend with family and friends and experiencing the joys to be found in interacting with life in the real world.
.....Or more Facebook

Toto

I disagree with a general limit on the number of posts per day. If two people are engaged in a conversation, you would expect multiple posts.

stephan huller

Maybe we should have one day a year which is kind of like a Saturnalia where posters switch identities with someone else, so I would write for Pete and Pete for me, bingo for earl, earl for bingo, roger would have to write as an atheist, sotto would have to acknowledge the sanctity of the Roman Catholic Church, the rest of the forum would have to recite the Nicene Creed but aa could keep writing in his own name because he often disagrees with himself ...