So, anybody holding their breath for the new forums at RDF?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Gee Gawd, I think what you're saying is too subtle, I don't understand it at all.

Meh, "subtle" and "400-foot mutant fire-breathing lizard-thingy" don't exactly go together.

[Feck]

Well I think I'm banned for saying that Josh fucked the Mods without even Kissing them first (Hellooooooooo Josh do you want to quote mine that ?)

[Trolldor]

Well I think I'm banned for saying that Josh fucked the Mods without even Kissing them first (Hellooooooooo Josh do you want to quote mine that ?)

Josh looks a little creepy imho... like he belongs to NAMBLA.

[Feck]

I've only ever joined 4 forums and I've been deleted from 2 (and one was for copy pasting a scientific paper )

[Don't Panic]

Well I think I'm banned for saying that Josh fucked the Mods without even Kissing them first (Hellooooooooo Josh do you want to quote mine that ?)

Josh looks a little creepy imho... like he belongs to NAMBLA.

He looks like he's young enough to be a victim of NAMBLA.

[kiki5711]

I think we're all jealous that Richard loves Josh more than all of us. It must be one hell of a relationship they have if Richard thought giving 80,000 fans the finger over trusting Josh was worthwhile. I mean any celebrity would be grateful to their fans. It's how they and/or their ideas/music gets to be known and spread.

[amused]

I'm coming into this controversy at the tail end, so I don't have the connection to the RDF forums that a lot of people had. From the description that they've given, I don't think they (RDF) intend to really have a forum again. You will have to submit a topic and that will be moderated first, and then posted for discussion. It's a much more controlled discussion space. I suspect they want to do it that way in order to shield the RDF from quote mining of the forums by their opponents, but I'm just speculating.

Regardless, the way they clumsily shut down the active forums is surprisingly, well, clumsy. But they sure have ample space between them and both rationalia and rationalskeptic now, don't they?

[Feck]

I'm coming into this controversy at the tail end, so I don't have the connection to the RDF forums that a lot of people had. From the description that they've given, I don't think they (RDF) intend to really have a forum again. You will have to submit a topic and that will be moderated first, and then posted for discussion. It's a much more controlled discussion space. I suspect they want to do it that way in order to shield the RDF from quote mining of the forums by their opponents, but I'm just speculating.

Regardless, the way they clumsily shut down the active forums is surprisingly, well, clumsy. But they sure have ample space between them and both rationalia and rationalskeptic now, don't they?

And we have a lot more fun

[Trolldor]

I think we're all jealous that Richard loves Josh more than all of us. It must be one hell of a relationship they have if Richard thought giving 80,000 fans the finger over trusting Josh was worthwhile. I mean any celebrity would be grateful to their fans. It's how they and/or their ideas/music gets to be known and spread.

I don't think 'we' all are at all. I've got less of an attatchment to Richard than I do to my dorm mates, and I don't know most of my dorm mates even by sight.

[kiki5711]

I think we're all jealous that Richard loves Josh more than all of us. It must be one hell of a relationship they have if Richard thought giving 80,000 fans the finger over trusting Josh was worthwhile. I mean any celebrity would be grateful to their fans. It's how they and/or their ideas/music gets to be known and spread.

I don't think 'we' all are at all. I've got less of an attatchment to Richard than I do to my dorm mates, and I don't know most of my dorm mates even by sight.

Well I didn't mean every single person but fans are fans. They are your bread and butter. Ask any celebrity, book writer, singer, actor. I meant it in that way.

[floppit]

I think we're all jealous that Richard loves Josh more than all of us. It must be one hell of a relationship they have if Richard thought giving 80,000 fans the finger over trusting Josh was worthwhile. I mean any celebrity would be grateful to their fans. It's how they and/or their ideas/music gets to be known and spread.

I don't think 'we' all are at all. I've got less of an attatchment to Richard than I do to my dorm mates, and I don't know most of my dorm mates even by sight.

Well I didn't mean every single person but fans are fans. They are your bread and butter. Ask any celebrity, book writer, singer, actor. I meant it in that way.

Honestly, if a few more had fessed up to a little worship he'd have kept them....

[JimC]

I think we're all jealous that Richard loves Josh more than all of us. It must be one hell of a relationship they have if Richard thought giving 80,000 fans the finger over trusting Josh was worthwhile. I mean any celebrity would be grateful to their fans. It's how they and/or their ideas/music gets to be known and spread.

I don't think 'we' all are at all. I've got less of an attatchment to Richard than I do to my dorm mates, and I don't know most of my dorm mates even by sight.

Well I didn't mean every single person but fans are fans. They are your bread and butter. Ask any celebrity, book writer, singer, actor. I meant it in that way.

I strongly suspect that RD prefers his fans to be anonymous buyers of his books, who then encourage others to buy them, but don't pester the great man himself...

(he's got me, alright - I bought every book he wrote... )

[kiki5711]

I think we're all jealous that Richard loves Josh more than all of us. It must be one hell of a relationship they have if Richard thought giving 80,000 fans the finger over trusting Josh was worthwhile. I mean any celebrity would be grateful to their fans. It's how they and/or their ideas/music gets to be known and spread.

I don't think 'we' all are at all. I've got less of an attatchment to Richard than I do to my dorm mates, and I don't know most of my dorm mates even by sight.

Well I didn't mean every single person but fans are fans. They are your bread and butter. Ask any celebrity, book writer, singer, actor. I meant it in that way.

Honestly, if a few more had fessed up to a little worship he'd have kept them....

Yea, the English God Of Science, Dawkins The Great!! You think he'd be flattered if we told him he's our new god? He'd have to say, oh no another religious sect to get rid of. But, but, they're worshiping Meeeee! Don't know what to do, just don't know what? Ok Josh, tell me what to do?

[klr]

I think we're all jealous bemused, confused and amused in equal measure that Richard loves Josh more than all of us. It must be one hell of a relationship they have if Richard thought giving 80,000 fans the finger over trusting Josh was worthwhile. I mean any celebrity would be grateful to their fans. It's how they and/or their ideas/music gets to be known and spread.

[lordpasternack]

I'm going for mid May. But I think it'll be something rushed out, that won't work, and some more bad management will push away most of the regular front pagers as well.

And the winner is...