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.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Gnosticism in action (2006/11/10)
ChristianForums is essentially gnostic.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Helping people break the rules (2006/11/10)
So, sometimes, staff don’t really want to take a personal hand in things, but they want to break the rules. One user at CF, who posted under the name “Sharp” (he’s currently banned, it appears), used to get a lot of complaints about his posts being flames. He called people names, and asserted that they were not true Christians when they didn’t agree with him.
[read more...]ChristianForums: ShannonKish gets banned, and unbanned (2006/11/09)
CF’s elaborate and complicated warning system was, in late 2004, rather a mess. The idea was that, if possible, staff should merely talk to you about things. If you kept pushing it, you would get an unofficial warning; unless you had received an unofficial warning (or, possibly, an unofficial warning for violating that same rule), you were not supposed to get an official warning. Only official warnings led to bans.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Offending the little ones (2006/11/09)
One of the quirks of CF is that it has always been dominated by people who feel the need to draw firm lines and boundaries to exclude the people who aren’t quite right. It’s generally phrased in terms of protecting people from bad doctrine.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Stray bullet, round 1 (2006/11/09)
Okay, so, in a previous episode, I mentioned how Stray Bullet got suspended from CF for claiming to be Christian.
[read more...]ChristianForums: The fortress mentality (2006/11/09)
A major shift in CF occurred in 2003-2004. Staff began to adopt a fortress mentality, in which they viewed themselves as being under constant attack from all sorts of sources. One of the funniest examples of this was masks.
[read more...]ChristianForums: Technical enforcement rears its ugly head (2006/11/09)
So, the time has come to examine what I think is probably the real beginning of the end in many ways. Technical enforcement.
[read more...]ChristianForums case studdy: Gunny, trolling, and funding. (2006/11/09)
Okay, time for another case study. Gunny. Gunny went by various names; Gunny, gunnysgt, GySgt, and others. (He changed his name away from GySgt after someone thought it meant Gay Sargeant.)
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