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Permalink Reply by Jānis Ķimsis on July 28, 2010 at 12:06pm

Awesome mods.

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Permalink Reply by Nelson on July 28, 2010 at 12:29pm

we get the occasional theist interested in engaging us but more often than not they leave on their own after they find that the typical circular reasoning/Pascal's wager approach doesn't work with people who have given the matter any thought.
there is the odd troll but we police the site to remove them before they harm the atmosphere.

welcome to the community Mike. glad to have you with us.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Vaughan on July 28, 2010 at 1:14pm

I hope the mods can keep this site as clean and troll free as it is now, as the site becomes more popular. Keep up the good work, and I'll keep donating. :D

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Permalink Reply by Nelson on July 28, 2010 at 1:27pm

that's our aim Mike. we, the mods, are members first so we sure as hell want the site as clean and free as it is now.
thanks for the kind words and the donations!

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on July 28, 2010 at 1:18pm

And I'm pretty sure its as close to a miracle as I'll find.

Oh noes! Think Atheist proves God!

;-)

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Permalink Reply by Morgan Matthew on July 28, 2010 at 1:27pm

Thanks for the kind words. Yes we have some of the best mods on the planet. :] Nelson is right, "more often than not they leave on their own after they find that the typical circular reasoning/Pascal's wager approach doesn't work with people who have given the matter any thought."

The sad part is when they leave the site they can opt to have all of their information, including posts deleted. Which means many pages of well answered responses to a theists silly question disappear! (We are talking like 30 pages! lol) So in the future it is likely mods might have to hijack a thread and make it their own thread to save the discussion.

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Permalink Reply by Yet Another Atheist on July 28, 2010 at 1:34pm

Or you could just get rid of that feature. Many, many forums I know leave the deleting-posts thing up to the mods/admins and most choose to leave posts up.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Vaughan on July 28, 2010 at 1:45pm

Yeah, I like this idea, if it's possible.

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Permalink Reply by Yet Another Atheist on July 28, 2010 at 1:48pm

It makes sense to me. If theists didn't want their opinions to remain on this site, they shouldn't have posted them in the first place. Let their flimsy arguments, and the shattering thereof, be made public and on permanent record.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Vaughan on July 28, 2010 at 1:50pm

Exactly, and it would serve as a starting point for any kind of FAQ's.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Vaughan on July 28, 2010 at 1:35pm

Yeah, I would like to see some of this troll thwarting. And it would also serve as good place to refer future theists/trolls to when they ask sill questions.

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Permalink Reply by Becca on July 28, 2010 at 11:57pm

So far yes I am shocked .... but then again I haven't been here for long.

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