And you also remember the exhaustive pace that had to be maintained just to keep up - we had very active mods, giving triple/quadruple the time required, just to keep our heads above the water and still it was a loosing battle. And debate ended up with alot of mods burning out from exhaustion. GA has always been one of the highest report yielding areas, and numerous efforts to salvage it have occured. And if you recall, when efforts were made to consistently apply the rules, always striving to be as unbiased as possible and take a proactive approach of being in the threads, posting, and trying to keep things civil, there were those who were mad with that - I believe it was called "over-moderating". I've personally witnessed alot of the attempts to fix GA and really have to commend TPTB for all the energy and effort they have put into trying to salvage this forum. I can understand where some feel frustrated about this decision, but they should be aware this decision only came after all other efforts failed.
Yes, very true. What some may not realize here is there are some members who post on another athiest site which have an agenda to deconvert Christians. They visit many different Christian websites and their main goal is to deconvert Christians. On that site in which they originated from, they have a list that has many of the deconverted Christian names (from CF, along with other Christian sites) that were deconverted on their list. In fact, the posters are boasting and bragging about how they deconverted this Christian or that Christian. It's heart breaking.
I have no problem with non-Christians sharing and fellowshipping and discussing Christianity, but I do have a problem with members who have an agenda to deconvert Christians and use the GA forum as their platform.
I realize that most members are not apart of this one group of atheists, but unfortunately, I believe this change needed to happen to protect the lambs who are vulnerable aka the babes in Christ who are still learning and have yet to form a strong foundation in Christ.
I realize that many here in this thread may not agree or understand, but I have that list and it breaks my heart to read it. I pray for those people who names are on this list. These people were once strong Christians, but are no longer Christians. It's heart breaking and that is why I support this new change.
This new change is not to exclude non-Christians, but to help those who are sincerely seeking Christ to have a chance to learn about Christ by fellow Christians.
There are many other forums here where non-Christians are very much welcomed to fellowship and have fun and discuss some things, but no more will young Christians who are vulnerable be subjected to a non-Christian's agenda of deconverting them. I'm not saying that is the goal or agenda of
"ALL" non-Christians, because I know that it is not. Unfortunately though, we do have some non-Christians who do have this agenda and in order to protect the lambs as Christ has called us to do, I support this new change.
I am in full agreement. Everything was done to keep this forum afloat but it was for not. The vitrol and flaming continued.
Me too. Amen
Agreed...somtimes the people that desperately need the help are the ones that fall through the cracks when Staff are kept busy enforcing rules against people that really should know better...people that agreed to abide by the rules when they signed up
Exactly.