Bond...James Bond wrote:Scottie wrote:Bond...James Bond wrote:Alright...I don't want to read 9 pages worth of crap. The only thing I have to say is that Dr. Shades' original rules said "rules are stupid". Let's follow that logic and scrap this dumb rule. Nobody will stick to it anyway. The first time an atheist gets a bee in their bonnet they aren't going to let a little disclaimer stop them. They'll post and we'll be back at the same problem, only that the mods will have moved one step closer to actually moderating (a job I for one certainly want to avoid).
Just my thoughts,
That would be great if people could moderate themselves. But, apparently they can't, therefore we need rules.
What's the point of rules if we can't enforce them? How exactly are we going to enforce this? I mean we can split a post, but the poster can go right back and do it again on the same thread or the next thread. Heck if we're going to get rules I guess we should get some way of enforcing them. Chastizing the posters obviously doesn't work. Asking and begging don't work. So basically it'll be a useless rule that ends up making the mods look even weaker because they can't even enforce their tiny number of rules. Very concrete rules like no "S's" and "F's" are easy to control. Temple content is easy to do. Language can be edited, but do you really think you can keep atheists from taking a knock at faith based threads just by asking them? Yeah right.
First, establish if there is really a problem. Many posters here seem to think there is.
Second, define the problem. Threads in the CK are constantly being derailed into "god doesn't exist", "the scriptures aren't true", etc. type threads. It ends up being the same discussion over and over again. How is this enjoyable to anyone?
Third, propose a solution. Marg proposed something. I (and the rest of the Mods but you) seemed to think it sounded like a great way to handle this!
Fourth, implement the plan. This is the tricky part. You're right. This is going to take some trial and error before we get good at it. But I believe that after the initial resistance, and some inevitable mistakes on the part of the mods, the board will be better for it.