Happy holidays everyone. It is nice to see it being spent in such friendly fashion here in RGT.
Regarding Splendour, I mostly agree with Jibninjas' recent comments. However, I'll emphasize a couple points. As moderators, we are not responsible for the quality of the posting in this forum. If you think the quality has gone down, or if you have become frustrated with how some people post, that is between you and those people. We are not your parents; we are not here to resolve your conflicts. Rather, you are to be regarded as responsible adults able to manage your own affairs. Our job is to enforce the rules of the forum, so as I said last time this issue came up--if you think that one of Splendour's posts requires moderation, i.e. goes against the rules of the forum, then please report it so that we can directly address your concerns with that post. However, we will not ban someone simply because you think that poster is annoying or lowers the quality of the forum.
Of course, if everyone agreed, we could changes the rules of the RGT so that the moderators did have this kind of discretion. As both a poster and a moderator I think that would be a mistake, but if enough people wanted it then it could perhaps be done (Maybe we could enlist Rapini as co-moderator
). However, I've not heard anyone seriously proposing this.
Now, just as a poster, like others I can get frustrated both with some of Splendour's posting and with those who reply to her. I am here because I enjoy friendly conversation with thoughtful people about religion, and I think this usually requires treating others with a level of respect that I think is mostly absent both from how Splendour deals with atheists and how most of the atheists here deal with her.
I'm also sympathetic to those who say that simply ignoring Splendour doesn't resolve the problem because so many others don't and so these silly conversations can end up dominating the forum. Here's an alternative suggestion. Make a rule for yourself that everytime you comment to Splendour or someone else about
how they post rather than the content of what they're posting, you'll also make a separate post that has nothing to do with Splendour or that other poster and instead directly promotes the kind of forum that you want, i.e. a post that directly discusses some issue related to Religion, God, or Theology. That way, if nothing else, your own interaction with others on the forum will not be dominated by these Splendour-type conversations.
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