Announcement about RDF Part 2.

[Mysturji]

Not sure if anyone's noticed, but the Tech Support forum over that The Other Place has been taken down.

I took a screen shot of this brilliant topic, though:

I already posted a link to that post here. AND, I invited him

[virphen]

Good idea to contact NH, I hadn't thought of the magazines to be honest.

Is anyone here known to PZ?

[Mysturji]

I survived the bastardisation of RDF and all I got was this lousy explanation

I'm thinking a funny caricature of a lifeboat and sinking ship, or perhaps the logo of the tv show survivor, or holocaust survivors ring?

To soon..... ?

How the fuck could it be, thats last century!

[Matt H]

Good idea to contact NH, I hadn't thought of the magazines to be honest.

Is anyone here known to PZ?

PZ Myers is very good friends with Richard.

[M]

Good idea to contact NH, I hadn't thought of the magazines to be honest.

Is anyone here known to PZ?

You mean my dad?

[virphen]

Good idea to contact NH, I hadn't thought of the magazines to be honest.

Is anyone here known to PZ?

PZ Myers is very good friends with Richard.

Exactly.

[Heresiarch]

I've notified New Humanist magazine about this news, and they want me to send them an e-mail with further details. Would anyone like to contribute?

Original forum announcement.
Shitty version the mods got.

Patronizing addition after the shocking revelation that people wouldn't take kindly to their community being razed to the ground:

Update: We had intended to leave the forum fully-funtioning for 30 days, but due to the inappropriate posts by some users and moderators, we have decided to leave the forum in a read-only state. You can still download and archive your posts and private messages, but the ability to enter new posts has been disabled. It's unfortunate that it had to come to this. We know that change can be difficult and sometimes frightening, but we are all very excited about the direction of the website and the future.

[Katherine]

Good idea to contact NH, I hadn't thought of the magazines to be honest.

I've gone beyond feeling sorry for myself - I've had the Pity Party.

Now it's time to take some swift, high-profile and decisive action against this monstrous injustice!

[macdoc]

Re: Announcement about RDF Part 2.
by JimC » Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:34 pm

my_wan wrote:
Anybody invited susu over. I'd hate to think we can't replicate some of the technical discussions over here.

Might I suggest an added section to the "Serious Stuff" section dealing directly with "Evolution". The "Science, Technology & Environment" can contain it, but part of my enjoyment of RD was knowledgeable people on evolutionary biology. My personal interest is in algorithms, but borrowing ideas from biology is very useful. That's also where more than a few IDers tended to go.


I think that is a good idea, and I'll raise it with the rest of the staff.

well you have the chief Evo light in Cassililea here already.

I'd like to recreate the Climate News Thread as a sticky that several spent a lot of time on and is a good resource....I have the content of the last 15 pages in a rich text format and life I think is getting it fully formatted.
Hate to see 115 pages of carefully garnered articles go unused.....

http://forum.richarddawkins.net/viewtop ... =5&t=74571

http://forum.richarddawkins.net/viewtopic.php?p=1739008

[SpeedOfSound]

Hey.

Got most of the forum saved for offline viewing (almost done).
Anyone interested? Several gigs so far...

I'll see if I can include a fulltext search function.

That would be marvellous. Truly marvellous. Would there be any possibility of hosting somewhere online - even through a file-sharing app or something? Or is it too big? I'm suspecting it might squish our servers here if it were hosted...

Sure thing. I will upload it asap. I'm considering to send out DVDs as well if people are not too scared to give me their shipping address
My upload speed is not that fast...

I'll give you my shipping address, and my mom, and I'll throw in a few ex-wives if I can get my hands on those posts. Oh, and you can have the kids and my collection of Dawkins books.

[HughMcB]

I've notified New Humanist magazine about this news, and they want me to send them an e-mail with further details. Would anyone like to contribute?

The main thing I'd like mentioned is that Dawkins so avidly promoted having an atheist community and a place to promote reason and rational thought amongst the masses, yet his two techies showed neither of these qualities when they single handedly succeeded in tearing down that whole idea.

Whats more is that the manner in which they executed this, by deleting thousands of valuable posts of any dissidents (who were well within their fucking right to do so and were some of the most valuable members) by wiping clean their user profiles. This coupled with locking everyone out of the forum and having no means to recover all our thousands of man-hours and invaluable posts is fucking disgraceful. Hitler would be proud!

PS I hope Josh Timonem gets gonorrhea from fucking a cow (yes cows get gonorrhea, I checked!).

[Katherine]

Is anyone here known to PZ?

Already on it c/o Twitter...

Kitty_B_Good @pzmyers Are you aware of the current storm of protest happening on the now-defunct Richard Dawkins forum?

[HughMcB]

Good idea to contact NH, I hadn't thought of the magazines to be honest.

I've gone beyond feeling sorry for myself - I've had the Pity Party.

Now it's time to take some swift, high-profile and decisive action against this monstrous injustice!

Rally the fucking troops!

I'M WITH YOU!

[Katherine]

Kitty_B_Good @pzmyers Check the Rationalia forum for input from other users treated with repugnant contempt by Josh Timonen et al...

Please do follow me on Twitter! It's http://twitter.com/Kitty_B_Good

[hackenslash]

Does anybody have access to linkedln? I know enough about susu to be able to get his contact deets, but I obviously don't want to make them public (although a little digging will get anybody what I found in short order).