I have been watching this forum for the last 90 days and have observed the attitudes of people very well before joining.
1) Certain moderators, have a bad habit of attacking new members for their views when they disagree with it in a rude attempt to change their views by harassment, insulting their views and telling them their views are wrong or not allowed by challenging them to debate then pulling the moderator card on members when they are losing the debate and disagree. They are like the fish in the tank that nip and bite at all the other fish. That does not mean all moderators do this. What it means is some moderators are ignorant.
2) Moderators who do not allow members to express their views the way they wish to express them without harassing them and filing false accusations against them. Then they cannot understand why members bite back.
3) It appears to happen every day. Yes? Exalting their self to an eminence front, higher than what really is, in an indirect way silencing through intimidation.
4) Is this how this forum has always operated? Submit or be cast out? Perhaps some members need to go back to when they first joined to remember how it really is? I know my experience has been way below the expected value.
5) Certain Moderators, engage in a dialog with members then swiftly change their position from round member to pointy finger moderator when they are losing the debate and wear their puffy crowns flexing their muscles and again silence the members through deliberate insults. This is in fact a type of cyber harassment that I am expecting new law to appear in some states within the next couple of years to protect members on forums, blog, texting and all public places on the Internet.
6) Like any place with such politics, there will always be a need for the people to vote out those in self-serving, egocentric and stagnant office positions.
7) This forum with moderators against members fully expresses religion against religion, rather than a comparative religion. The real issues are not allowed to be addressed, keeping everyone dancing around the issues as if they do not exist while it is OK for moderators to offend and mock members. Members are made to look like criminals for giving their view.
8) The areas that are for those people like myself who are outside of a religion, are also used by those who are within a religion, which is not really correct because the people outside of the religion are there because they don’t want to hear what is in the religion it to begin with. Members are chased out of the religion area to use the belief and comparative area and the moderators chase the members who are freethinkers, or known as godless, thus rarely allowing opposing views to flourish. Typical of religion.
9) I am certain none of this will change. It is what it is. The forum leaders reflect the owners’ views and bias on how to treat others who strongly disagree by attacking with the pathetic straw man excuse instead of addressing valid points. I have not personally met the owner but have lived long enough to know how these pyramid schemes operate. The forum preaches tolerance yet itself is not tolerant of certain views. There is nothing different about the bias of this forum than the bias of any other religious or political forum.
10) It took me less than two weeks to see all of this after confronting Darear for his behavior toward another member. Then challenges me to debate him, avoids the dialog requested, then he throws a temper tantrum with the moderator card to silence me, instead of addressing the issues properly. Ban me. That will render your powerless over me.
11) Of course the moderators here who bully are always right and could never make mistakes and all of the members who disagree are wrong. How quickly the daggers and fangs appear is astounding. It reminds me of a cyber gang hiding in a dead end alley.
12) I am certain I have noticed that some moderators are actually very kind and do not misuse their authority and have shown compassion with all fairness allowing other views to be heard in the manner they wish to give it. Please keep in mind, I conclude that not all of the moderators here need an adjustment. I have not had an honest chance to meet them all and I find it impossible that the obvious problem here could be a cloned thing. Political Yes. Cloned hopefully Not.
13) We will not all agree on this and naturally members/moderators who are friends will come to their defense to take the witness stand. I did notice these same complaints while sifting through other posts. I know I am not alone on these issues.
14) This is a time for those of you who have been harassed and treated disrespectfully by a particular moderator(s), to speak up with constructive advice or forever hold your peace. Or in the words of one moderator, LEAVE. I would not expect any changes. While the forum title exclaims without bias, a bias has been displayed.
15) Perhaps if these select, mean and bullying moderators would keep quiet themselves for awhile they could actually do a good job, which is to moderate the members who quarrel with each other, instead of being the person starting the quarrel attempting to topple all who disagree.
16) I may be an old lady. I am not a stupid old lady. I am however too old to really care about what anyone else thinks about this. Please go right ahead and speak your mind the way you wish to say it and don’t be afraid. If I am here today and gone tomorrow, makes no difference to me. Have I wasted my time with this? Probably. Good Day, Sherri
1) Certain moderators, have a bad habit of attacking new members for their views when they disagree with it in a rude attempt to change their views by harassment, insulting their views and telling them their views are wrong or not allowed by challenging them to debate then pulling the moderator card on members when they are losing the debate and disagree. They are like the fish in the tank that nip and bite at all the other fish. That does not mean all moderators do this. What it means is some moderators are ignorant.
2) Moderators who do not allow members to express their views the way they wish to express them without harassing them and filing false accusations against them. Then they cannot understand why members bite back.
3) It appears to happen every day. Yes? Exalting their self to an eminence front, higher than what really is, in an indirect way silencing through intimidation.
4) Is this how this forum has always operated? Submit or be cast out? Perhaps some members need to go back to when they first joined to remember how it really is? I know my experience has been way below the expected value.
5) Certain Moderators, engage in a dialog with members then swiftly change their position from round member to pointy finger moderator when they are losing the debate and wear their puffy crowns flexing their muscles and again silence the members through deliberate insults. This is in fact a type of cyber harassment that I am expecting new law to appear in some states within the next couple of years to protect members on forums, blog, texting and all public places on the Internet.
6) Like any place with such politics, there will always be a need for the people to vote out those in self-serving, egocentric and stagnant office positions.
7) This forum with moderators against members fully expresses religion against religion, rather than a comparative religion. The real issues are not allowed to be addressed, keeping everyone dancing around the issues as if they do not exist while it is OK for moderators to offend and mock members. Members are made to look like criminals for giving their view.
8) The areas that are for those people like myself who are outside of a religion, are also used by those who are within a religion, which is not really correct because the people outside of the religion are there because they don’t want to hear what is in the religion it to begin with. Members are chased out of the religion area to use the belief and comparative area and the moderators chase the members who are freethinkers, or known as godless, thus rarely allowing opposing views to flourish. Typical of religion.
9) I am certain none of this will change. It is what it is. The forum leaders reflect the owners’ views and bias on how to treat others who strongly disagree by attacking with the pathetic straw man excuse instead of addressing valid points. I have not personally met the owner but have lived long enough to know how these pyramid schemes operate. The forum preaches tolerance yet itself is not tolerant of certain views. There is nothing different about the bias of this forum than the bias of any other religious or political forum.
10) It took me less than two weeks to see all of this after confronting Darear for his behavior toward another member. Then challenges me to debate him, avoids the dialog requested, then he throws a temper tantrum with the moderator card to silence me, instead of addressing the issues properly. Ban me. That will render your powerless over me.
11) Of course the moderators here who bully are always right and could never make mistakes and all of the members who disagree are wrong. How quickly the daggers and fangs appear is astounding. It reminds me of a cyber gang hiding in a dead end alley.
12) I am certain I have noticed that some moderators are actually very kind and do not misuse their authority and have shown compassion with all fairness allowing other views to be heard in the manner they wish to give it. Please keep in mind, I conclude that not all of the moderators here need an adjustment. I have not had an honest chance to meet them all and I find it impossible that the obvious problem here could be a cloned thing. Political Yes. Cloned hopefully Not.
13) We will not all agree on this and naturally members/moderators who are friends will come to their defense to take the witness stand. I did notice these same complaints while sifting through other posts. I know I am not alone on these issues.
14) This is a time for those of you who have been harassed and treated disrespectfully by a particular moderator(s), to speak up with constructive advice or forever hold your peace. Or in the words of one moderator, LEAVE. I would not expect any changes. While the forum title exclaims without bias, a bias has been displayed.
15) Perhaps if these select, mean and bullying moderators would keep quiet themselves for awhile they could actually do a good job, which is to moderate the members who quarrel with each other, instead of being the person starting the quarrel attempting to topple all who disagree.
16) I may be an old lady. I am not a stupid old lady. I am however too old to really care about what anyone else thinks about this. Please go right ahead and speak your mind the way you wish to say it and don’t be afraid. If I am here today and gone tomorrow, makes no difference to me. Have I wasted my time with this? Probably. Good Day, Sherri
