I was thinking the same thing...although I was unsure if he meant that faith icons would be gone altogether or what it's going to be. I personally like to see the icons, too, even though some-like mine even though I attend a U.M. church-may be only the genaric Christian icon.
no, some have misunderstood or misread what erwin had written. he never said he was getting rid of the faith icons. what he said was that people would be in control of their own faith icons from now on. (you used to have to pm an admin in order to change your faith icon..now you can change it yourself any time you want)
i have no problem with that..how bout everyone else? we can make a debate subforum in WP ??
yes..we need a wiki to make our subforum rules..how do we start one?
we will still have faith icons, they arent being taken away. As well as not being attacked..dont worry..we are putting up a no debating rule in our main WP section so we won't be attacked!
from what erwin wrote..in order to be a mod you must have 100 posts and you must be nominated by a current mod, then after that you have to get voted in by your forum peers and only those in the forum with alteast 100 posts can even vote (which stops people from creating sock accounts just for voting purposes).
For the same reasons atheist used to go into the old AOL religion chats --to cause problems, to raise doubts, to make themselves feel secure in their non-beliefs by tearing down the beliefs of others. I'm not saying all atheist are like this, but there are some with a clear agenda of doing away with all religions and they will use any forum to do it.
For years we were able to change our icons on our own..its only been less than a year since they started making you pm and admin to change it..they are just changing it back. your right..people can abuse it. BUT..overall i guess ya gotta see that we are adults and should be able to be trusted to be honest. yes..there are those that won't be honest, but they wont get away with much. i mean if i change to a baptist icon tomorrow and go vote in their forum..i think they would question me. Not only that but thats why CaDan is going around to all the congregational forums suggesting weighted voting...meaning for every post you have in a forum..thats how many votes you get. So even if i went and made 3 posts in the Baptist forum..ya i could have 3 votes..but people that have been there for years would get 1,000 votes and 3,000 votes each. So my 3 measly votes would mean NOTHING..so i AGREE with weighted voting..IF we have an easy way of finding out how many posts each voter has in the forum!
Which is why, I think, we need to spell out what it is we believe. An icon may or may not be an accurate reflection of one's beliefs, but their words surely will be.
it isnt going to be a problem here. We will make a no debating rule, so they can't debate. As far as votes go..if we do weighted voting..the atheists wont have much votes since as of now they have exactly ZERO posts here in WP!
