How the new forum will affect US......

[TrustAndObey]

I'm not consenting to having my posts moved to the new Former Adventist/Progressive forum.

I know from past experience that it would be an exercise in "attack the poster, not the post" or of "attack the believer, not the belief" and we are not going to be given the opportunity to defend ourselves.

I don't think it's right and I think we need to get this straightened out before the new forum is created.

Also, I think we need to revisit our rules.

Feedback? What do you think about the changes, what should we do to protect ourselves now, etc.

 

[mva1985]

Feedback? What do you think about the changes, what should we do to protect ourselves now, etc.

I was going to post something of this nature, but you beat me to it.

I kind of feel violated in a sense, having "outsiders" meddle in our affairs.

I know that there are some here that will be fine with having the progs move on to a place of their own, and I understand that. It is not exactly what I would want to see, but I will live with it.

But to have "outsiders" offer refugee when I think none was needed is how I feel violated.

In my opinion.

 

[mva1985]

duplicate....

 

[TrustAndObey]

I don't think it was disclosed that there was a poll here to split the forum not even a year ago and MOST Progressive Adventists voted NO!


I don't think that was disclosed at all actually.

I can't say I'm sorry this is happening, but we have some new rules to formulate and some ground rules to set about our posts HERE being transferred over THERE.

I think we also need to discuss ex-Adventists coming here to teach or harass.

The site is going bonkers and I have class! See you guys later tonight!

 

[OntheDL]

I don't think it was disclosed that there was a poll here to split the forum not even a year ago and MOST Progressive Adventists voted NO!


I don't think that was disclosed at all actually.

I can't say I'm sorry this is happening, but we have some new rules to formulate and some ground rules to set about our posts HERE being transferred over THERE.

I think we also need to discuss ex-Adventists coming here to teach or harass.

The site is going bonkers and I have class! See you guys later tonight!

I can stop the prog's who want to leave themselves. But since the internal division is over, there is no reason we should leave ourselves open. The debate should be limited to SDAs who agree with the 28 fundies and those who are studying the Adventist doctrines in order to join the SDA church.

 

[OntheDL]

I meant I can't stop the progs from leaving. Anyone else is having issues lately with the forums? It's been like this since the upgrade.

 

[honorthesabbath]

I agree, our posts should stay in our forum--period. I have NO plans of going over to the WWMC forum--none at all. And I am looking forward to the peace.

But I also think that taking the threads in which the trads have posted is taking things too far.

 

[TrustAndObey]

I think we need to get our mods and Admin into a discussion about changing some of our rules. Some are no longer necessary obviously and some are ones we weren't anticipating needing until now.

I have no plans on going to the new forum either....but several posts here have indicated they do still plan on coming here.

Is there irony in that? Oh yeah.

 

[TrustAndObey]

http://christianforums.com/t5795273-should-the-sda-forum-be-split.html

 

[TrustAndObey]

They could've voted for a forum split a long time ago. Instead, the majority of Progressives voted for the forum to stay together with stricter rules against flaming.

http://christianforums.com/t5795273-...-be-split.html

 

[TrustAndObey]

Hey MVA, we got it the FIRST time you said it man!

 

[mva1985]

Hey MVA, we got it the FIRST time you said it man!

Can you tell I'm having trouble with the forum! ;-)

 

[OntheDL]

Now it seems it's just a matter of time the progs get their own place. Who do we need to talk to, what do we need to do about revisiting the FSGs?

 

[TrustAndObey]

Okay, how about this you guys? (I need some feedback please):

http://christianforums.com/t6899690

Those are the congregation-wide guidelines that this forum is currenly under.

Notice HOW a member is defined and WHAT a member may do.

How about we ditch our FSGs (except for our statement of faith) and just go under the CF site-wide rules and these congregation-wide guidelines until the Progressives and formers have their own forum?

It would save us a lot of what we're seeing right now and after the dust settles we can discuss FSGs.

Sound good?

 

[OntheDL]

Okay, how about this you guys? (I need some feedback please):

http://christianforums.com/t6899690

Those are the congregation-wide guidelines that this forum is currenly under.

Notice HOW a member is defined and WHAT a member may do.

How about we ditch our FSGs (except for our statement of faith) and just go under the CF site-wide rules and these congregation-wide guidelines until the Progressives and formers have their own forum?

It would save us a lot of what we're seeing right now and after the dust settles we can discuss FSGs.

Sound good?

That's good idea.

But considering things don't move themselves unlike with the progs, we should just place a limit on who can debate rather than trouble them later on again.

Did I understand you correctly Lainie?

 

[TrustAndObey]

They don't agree with the Seventh-day Adventist Statement of Faith so they wouldn't be able to debate here anyway.

 

[TrustAndObey]

It would stop it right here, right now.

 

[TrustAndObey]

I think if we stopped all debate in here for a while we'll discover:

1. We may LOVE it and go to other places on CF to debate if we feel compelled.

or

2. We'll see that we do want debate here, but from experience know what types of things we need to formulate rules against.

I think it's a good idea, but it's not up to me, so I'd like to hear what the other Trads say.

 

[happywiththelord]

its just all so confusing!

 

[happywiththelord]