Most of the time the religion forum keeps out of site politics. I
appreciate and respect that. It really shows most of you are above
politics. However the site presidential election effects this forum
greatly. The 2 presidential candidates, me and rational madman have
wildly different views of what should happen with the religion forum
section.
Me personally, I
think the religion forum has it’s own culture and should be
respected. I want you guys to be in control of your little part of
the internet.
RM on the other hand
wants to crackdown on the religion section. I will link to the
following thread where he makes remarks on how he will crack down on
you guys. https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/7106-a-witch-a-thang-a-yin-a-yang-a-rational-man-and-a-boomerang?page=3&post_number=53
The following is a
quote of his on how he would start cracking down on religious forum
regulars.
The mods would need to almost be 'too heavy handed' at first with how many ROs they set out.You would find that at first the forums would seem 'dead' but slowly over time the more timid members and emotional members who aren't timid but know they react strongly can start to feel more welcome there.I guarantee you there are members who barely posted there as well as onlookers to the website who took a couple of looks at threads there that never signed up specifically due to the toxic environment it has. In other words, there's activity that would be happening there with fun and friendly debate between theists and atheists, different theists, discussions of the meaning of traditions etc that aren't taking place because we have people too busy trying to derail threads and bring out the absolute worst in members that differ from their outlook.On top of ROs, I think there needs to be a lot of active intervention, locking of threads etc. The religion forum users will at first maybe say 'stay out' but they will soon realise the help going on there when over time the more toxic bullies suddenly are either tamer or gone of their own volition. Not all the toxicity is the level of BrotherDThomas but what has happened is over time all the non-toxic members got eroded away and the only ones remaining either painfully tolerate and partly embrace the toxic environment or they totally and utterly perpetuate it.The toxicity is so direct and blatant that it is very easy to justify mod intervention to the people doing it and give them specific pointers to how to avoid ad hominem habits and perhaps discuss the topic more in an asking and answering format rather than a bite-back and berate format.I can't give specifics without this thread itself possibly becoming classified as a callout thread but believe me, there are very specific habits of very specific members that if they were curtailed would completely transform the environment there. The mods are just obsessed with being lenient as in the past their intervening ways have been shamed and branded stupid by some members here.
I want you guys to
control your future. If you want somebody to radically change this
area you enjoy.
This is not a
campaign thread, so I am not telling you who to vote for. However I
think since the results of the election effect you, that you have a
right to know the views of the candidates.
