ChristianForums: Bradfordgate (2006/11/16)
Ahh, Bradfordgate. The high point was when one of the ChristianForums staff confessed to killing and eating another (then-former) staffer.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Confidentiality (2006/11/16)
There’s a lot of talk about confidentiality and secrecy, not to mention privacy.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Socks and the appearance of evil (2006/11/14)
One of the quirks of CF is that, for as long as I can find records of, official policy has always been that moderators are strongly encouraged to have a separate account, not identified as theirs, which they use to debate.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Secret origin story! (2006/11/13)
It’s funny, but in a way, the origin story of CF is secret.
[read more...]ChristianForums: One Bread, One Body (2006/11/12)
One of the interesting things that ChristianForums had was a dedicated subforum for Catholics. Some forums exclude Catholics, claiming they are not Christians at all. CF actively included them. The subforum was called “One Bread, One Body”, and is one of the higher-traffic areas of CF, simply because there are so very many Catholics.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Kicking the snot out of the Mormons (2006/11/12)
Once upon a time, very early on, one of the proto-boards which eventually merged to become ChristianForums as it’s known today used the Apostle’s Creed as its standard of “who is a Christian here”. By the time I reached the site, it was using the longer Nicene Creed. A brief experiment in 2003 allowed members to use either, but a “problem” was found: Mormons accept the Apostle’s Creed, but almost none of them can agree to the Nicene Creed.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Moderators and the rules (2006/11/12)
One of the standing policies of CF for a long time has been that moderators are not exactly subject to the rules. In principle, moderators are expected to follow the rules. In practice, it is not always the case that they do.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Interactions with ~~Elsewhere~~ (2006/11/11)
Many years ago, one of the CF regulars, who had gotten the feeling he wasn’t very welcome, started a thread over on Internet Infidels, called “CF Outcasts”. This thread grew, and more threads followed. Originally they were in the “Miscellaneous Discussions” forum, but when a forum reorganization moved that into the “no-preaching” part of the site, the threads were moved into IIDB’s catch-all “~~Elsewhere~~” forum.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Trolls and spammers (2006/11/11)
It’s not all bad. ChristianForums staff do some really good work. In particular, let’s talk about trolls and spammers.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Moderation and politics (2006/11/11)
This is gonna be a partial story, because there’s a lot more to the story, but much of it is covered by various confidentiality agreements.
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