Posted by AuntieMel on November 22, 2004, at 10:01:03
In reply to Dr-Bob...Faith Board is a minefield!, posted by 64bowtie on November 19, 2004, at 22:48:23
And I don't mean the "beast" with the triple sixes.
Faith and religion are very, very personal things. Saying you disagree on something is, on an emotional level, akin to questioning a person's ancestry.
This naturally means that if a *very* tight rein isn't kept on the board it will degenerate into a nasty, name calling, very ugly place.
Interestingly the same thing happend to the Halliburton message board on yahoo! finance, something I stumbled across way, way before the current Iraq situation. It has, for years, been a place for lots of (in my opion) uninformed political ranters.
Here's a link. I just looked at it, and for once it's fairly tame....by this boards usual standards.
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URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20041109/msgs/418920.html