Day: May 11, 2007

The Christian Forums Saga Continues

I reposted the previous blog entry on Christian Forums, since I can’t link to it yet. It was summarily deleted with the following reason:

this is a violation of rule 3.8- discussing mod actions on the open board. PM me with any questions..

Please reply to this PM if you have any questions.

Oddly, I posted it in the CF Support Forum, in the subforum “Discuss Rules & Staff Team Policy.” If I’m not allowed to actually discuss the staff in this section, then why call it that in the first place?

So, to be a moderator at CF, you must lack intelligence and be too cowardly to discuss your actions in an open forum. I’m starting to see how things work at this board.

It’s a good thing that none of these people are baseball umpires or football referees, especially since they fear being questioned. If anyone questions them, they simply delete the thread.

Wait a minute–isn’t having unquestionable authority the hallmark of a cult?

Stupid Christian Forums

Wow. As a person who holds a few controversial theological positions (Calvinism, historicism), I expected to get moderator warnings at the Rational Response Squad forums. I expected to get warnings at TheologyWeb. So far, I’ve been made to feel very welcome at both forums (in fact, the RRS even sent me e-mail telling me that they missed me and wanted me to return to posting).

When I joined the Christian Forums, I was expecting the same sort of treatment. But instead, I have already received a warning from a moderator for violating the rules on my introductory post!

I posted this:

Hello all, I’m new to the forums and I thought I’d introduce myself and tell you who I am and what I’m about.I’m Cory. I’m working on building an online apologetics ministry and becoming a freelance writer. I’m married with a little bundle of joy on the way (Oct 8).I’m quickly becoming a regular poster on TheologyWeb.com and RationalResponders.com. I enjoy the online debating scene.

Well, that’s who I am and what I’m about. See you all around the boards!

To which received the following response:

Hi VenomX My name is Rich, and I am a Sr. Moderator with the Friendship Team here at CF. First of all, let me welcome you to Christian Forums–one of the greatest sites on the web!However, I need to inform you that your first post at this url:

http://www.christianforums.com/showt…4#post34687654

included this:

Quote:

I’m quickly becoming a regular poster on TheologyWeb.com and RationalResponders.com. I enjoy the online debating scene.

Members may not post links until they have 15 posts, and links to other boards are not allowed unless that board has a link back to Christian Forum in an obvious place. We are asking you to please edit out this portion of your post. If it is not done within 48 hrs, staff will do it for you.

If you have any questions, please respond to this pm. Once again, welcome to CF

Rich

Now, the nutty part is that I didn’t post links to either board. I just mentioned their names. I tried to respond to the PM to inform Rich of that, but I can’t do that because I’m a new member.Now, you’d think that a moderator would be smart enough to know the difference between a link and a name. But I suppose not. You’d also think that a moderator would know that a member with less than five posts can’t send a PM, so why on earth would he invite me to respond if he knew I couldn’t? That doesn’t make me feel welcome on the boards at all, which is incredibly ironic considering his PM twice says “Welcome to the boards.”

So, intelligence isn’t a prerequisite for becoming a moderator at CF. I expect more from “one of the greatest sites on the web.” Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going over to TWeb to nominate this idiot for a Screwball Award. I’ll just click the link in my post. Wait! I didn’t put a link in my post! Darn. I’ll just have to copy and paste.