mo-watcher wrote:
Surely you jest (and I know you are "marg" not "shirley" <g>). I've been an infrequent poster, but very frequent lurker on Mormon message boards for many, many, years. The FAIRboard had debates every single day on a variety of topics. Critics posted & argued their views on a regular basis. This is simply misinformed hogwash.
This is off topic to this thread. However you had written an ad hominem against Tal and since the mods allowed it, which in my opinion they should not have being as this is a heavily moderated thread and ad hominems should not be allowed, I commented to give reason why he or any other critic may write on the board as you noted but then choose to not respond further.
Debates with critics, occur on topic only if all parties are free to express their points on that topic.and all proceed with intellectual honesty. The fact that the "fairboard" acknowledged in its rules that it was not a "fair" board warrants my point that is/was not a debate board and least not one which allowed unrestricted critical debate from critics. There may have been topics the Mods allowed and it may have seemed like a debate board, but it operated as a Mormon apologetic board and critics who are/were too challenging, too outspoken are/were harrassed, censored or restricted as to what they might say and argue on point.
When people are banned or queued on that board, they are not allowed to give their final say, so many leave silently. Sure there are critics there, but they've learned to play the "restricted" game which does not allow intellectual honesty.
Had Tal continued with responses, it would have been likely he would have been dog piled on, or the mods would have harassed, if what he said ran counter to the board's purpose. I say that based on observation and personal experience.
by the way, I'm not being critical of the board. Now if you want to discuss further this issue, I suggest you start a new thread. If you have anything to add to the issues presented in this thread essentially the "theory of knowledge" then do so.