Should we ban religious threads

foosh · Apprentice Joined: 11 Jan 2004 Posts: 231 Location: STL

I'm sorta disappointed that so many people voted to ban them. Although I agree it's mostly trash.
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danielsbrewer · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 9:58 am Post subject:

I also wish that you could set the forums that you view when you look at "messages since last visit", but I suppose that is not available in the forum software.

niffs · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:35 am Post subject:

I dont like religeous threads. At least not here. I came here to read about Gentoo, not Christianity Vs. Atheism. Nontheless I think banning them wouldn't do much good, people would post protest threads instead, or political threads <shudder>.
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z3ro · Apprentice Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 261

It would be nice if we could have some sort of filter system that each member could set for their account.

Eg: don't display any posts that contain religion - based on keywords.

I vote ban all religious threads, and delete OTW.

niffs · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:23 am Post subject:

I like the idea of having a filter, almost like the "adblock" plugin for firefox, but for the gentoo forums! Maybe someone should suggest that...
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20552

If you don't want to read topics unrelated to Gentoo, don't read OTW. Its that simple.
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oldan · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:08 pm Post subject:

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masseya · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:00 pm Post subject:

Whoever said that those threads were like a train wreck was completely right. So I would add to pjp's advice with: If you know you get caught up in debates easily, be careful reading those threads. They can be very heated at times.
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cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

OTW is just like a drug though, once you pop, you cant stop!
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curtis119 · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:32 pm Post subject:

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curtis119 · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:01 am Post subject:

masseya · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:02 pm Post subject:

/me begins weeping silently.
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sgarcia · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:34 pm Post subject:

Wow. Times have certainly changed. This thread is completely unrelated to what I expected.

Was a time, if you were on a computer related discussion group, a "religous war" would be about things that mattered. Like vi vs. emacs, or object oriented vs. top down.

Now we're worrying about trivailities like Islam vs. Christianity? I tell you, the level of discourse has *really* gone downhill!

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

this is OTW.... 'nuff said
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kallamej · Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 11:05 am Post subject:

No, this is GFF, and this thread has clearly passed its best before date.
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