Exactly!
How hard would it be to post DIR thread titles in blue or green, or a different script, so they'd be immediately recognizable as restricted?
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DIR Forums Take Two
- Thread starter Brent W
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How hard would it be to post DIR thread titles in blue or green, or a different script, so they'd be immediately recognizable as restricted?
This idea was discussed back when I was on Staff. I believe it was that the current forum software had no way of doing that and we had a vote. The result of the vote was that all DIRs remain blue. IIRC it was because making all DIRs green could easily result in debates in DIRs.
Pretty much this. Or if there was a way to make it work, none of us had access to the tool to change the colors or anything. The only person with unfettered access to site management tools is the site owner.
Plus, different colors doesn't say to a new member "this forum is restricted" like "wut... I can't post in this area" does anyway, yeah? I think in the long run this system will be better. But, still mulling it over.
It appears so. I can't post in unchosen DIRs.
This has already been described.
If you aren't permitted you won't have a reply or quote button.
Tom
Pretty much this. Or if there was a way to make it work, none of us had access to the tool to change the colors or anything. The only person with unfettered access to site management tools is the site owner.
Plus, different colors doesn't say to a new member "this forum is restricted" like "wut... I can't post in this area" does anyway, yeah? I think in the long run this system will be better. But, still mulling it over.
Maybe if you used red... lol.
Nope. Currently, I'd recommend asking questions about various traditions here: Religions Q&A (it's what the forum was created for).
If this ends up being the longstanding way we do things, we'll adjust the wording of Rule 10 accordingly.
MD
qualiaphile
Well that's a huge blow to the smaller DIRs. So am I the only one who can post in the Zoroastrian DIR now? Even ex Zoroastrians or members who are partial to Zoroastrianism cannot post there?
Namaste, @Brent W and mods
As you know, I can no longer post in any DIR without declaring an affiliation with or at least an affinity to a minimum of one religion, from a selection of religions and beliefs of your choosing. How can you not see the complete unrighteousness of this? Will you next be asking forum members to disavow at least one religion, too? IMO, you are using a hammer to smash an ant and breaking the tabletop in the process.
As I said before and after considerable reflection continue to believe, this solution for RF is adharma, a position I cannot support for myself nor comfortably ask others to support and indeed it is illustrative of the generality of ill-thought out and increasingly seriously skewed ideas for "fixing things" which result in rules and controls members of our cultures and societies everywhere are being told they MUST accept or they risk being locked out of some part of their society... and now in a bizarre twist of irrationality, for not declaring a predilection, here at RF they are locked out! So be it.
While I offer the warmest and deepest heartfelt salutations to the people I believe I might have befriended here, I must ask you to please close my account at this site. I don't see a method to do that myself.
I thank my Beloved, sincerely, for the opportunities I was offered to share my path with the members of RF this past year.
OM and Prem,
Sw. Vandana Jyothi
As you know, I can no longer post in any DIR without declaring an affiliation with or at least an affinity to a minimum of one religion, from a selection of religions and beliefs of your choosing. How can you not see the complete unrighteousness of this? Will you next be asking forum members to disavow at least one religion, too? IMO, you are using a hammer to smash an ant and breaking the tabletop in the process.
As I said before and after considerable reflection continue to believe, this solution for RF is adharma, a position I cannot support for myself nor comfortably ask others to support and indeed it is illustrative of the generality of ill-thought out and increasingly seriously skewed ideas for "fixing things" which result in rules and controls members of our cultures and societies everywhere are being told they MUST accept or they risk being locked out of some part of their society... and now in a bizarre twist of irrationality, for not declaring a predilection, here at RF they are locked out! So be it.
While I offer the warmest and deepest heartfelt salutations to the people I believe I might have befriended here, I must ask you to please close my account at this site. I don't see a method to do that myself.
I thank my Beloved, sincerely, for the opportunities I was offered to share my path with the members of RF this past year.
OM and Prem,
Sw. Vandana Jyothi
Brent W
Resident Tech Guy
Just don't log back in. I am honestly tired of hearing your non stop complaining about this. I have said over and over again that we are open to adjustments with this and this might not be the end solution. Yet you continue to act like we just destroyed every single human right you have on this earth.
We are going to try it though and we are going to try to make it work. We are going to continue to adjust where we see fit and we are going to try to come to a solution that can make both our staff and members happy. I am not out to please every single person though.
I am sorry you feel that you can't post here at all now but I am not going continue this discussion anymore with you about this.
MD
qualiaphile
Liu
Well-Known Member
Really? Well, there are some kinds of Satanists where I would consider it justified if they consider themselves Abrahamic:
- so-called Inverse Christians: People who believe in the theology of an Abrahamic religion with no or only very view modifications, but just choose the other side.
Since people like that aren't really welcome in the LHP-DIR (or so I would assume, they are pretty rare on this forum), the Abrahamic DIR would be the right place for them as they have much more in common with Abrahamics than with other kinds of Satanists, theologically and often philosophically.
-LHPers who venerate YHVH. We have at least one such user in this forum, if I member correctly, so this is actually a thing. I'm a bit less sure whether they should be allowed to post in the Abrahamic DIR, but it would seem like a matter of case by case decision, not an outright no.
But regarding more typical Satanists, I agree, most of us don't belong to the Abrahamic DIR.
Here's a crazy idea: if you want to know what the rule's about you could, you know, read it.
Especially since, as you've already mentioned, we've sent you two personalized copies already.