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Post by Ginnie on Sept 23, 2007 20:55:11 GMT -4
I've noticed that the out of 522 members of this forum, about 100 have posted only once or not ever at all.
I know we have the Lurkers and Viewers Thread to get new members to post and introduce themselves and that is a way to get more people to post.
I'd like to encourage all the rest who haven't posted to do so and partake in our discussions.
Maybe a lot of the member list has gone on to bigger and better things and haven't deleted their membership, I don't know.
To post, you don't have to be a scientist or scholar after all - heck, just look at me! ;D
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Post by PhantomWolf on Sept 23, 2007 21:46:44 GMT -4
Some people create a user name simply so they can keep track of the posts they have read.
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Post by homobibiens on Sept 23, 2007 23:06:34 GMT -4
Some people create a user name simply so they can keep track of the posts they have read. Yes, but I don't find this forum software well set up for that. Maybe it's just a matter of being different from what I'm used to. The board hasn't been true to its name, since most of the discussion is about theological issues. But it looks like that it is a recent phenomenon, so it can't explain the reticence of people to post prior to that. And then, one of your currently more prolific posters is someone well-known the width and breadth of the internet for destroying every board he touches. That can't be helpful in getting people to post. |
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Post by gwiz on Sept 24, 2007 9:37:53 GMT -4
Looking back over the history of this forum, it has great waves of activity whenever new hoax believers come along to try their luck, but after the inevitable descent to abusing us and getting banned things get a little slow again.
I must admit the continuing religious discussions are a bit of a mystery to me. "Why here?" is the question that comes to mind.
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Post by Jason on Sept 24, 2007 10:57:58 GMT -4
Why religious discussions here? Have you looked at religiously-centered forums? The traffic is huge and the trolls are legion. I like this forum because it doesn't have a huge amount of traffic and has some interesting people on it. I didn't come here in the first place to discuss religion or philosophy - I was interested in Apollo - but the subject came up so I was glad to discuss it.
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Post by homobibiens on Sept 24, 2007 12:10:59 GMT -4
Have you looked at religiously-centered forums? Just this one  |
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Post by LunarOrbit on Sept 24, 2007 13:43:23 GMT -4
If this forum has successfully served it's purpose then there will be less discussion of the hoax theory, not more. An increase in popularity of the hoax theory is a sign that we're failing to convince people that the moon landings really happened, so I personally believe it's a good thing if that area of forum is becoming quiet.
If people want to discuss other subjects to fill the void that is fine with me, as long as they do it politely. I specifically created off topic areas in the forum because I knew we couldn't talk about the hoax theory all the time. But if anyone feels this forum has become too focused on topics that are unrelated to Apollo or the hoax theory they are free to initiate new discussions that are on those topics.
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Post by Jason on Sept 24, 2007 13:53:57 GMT -4
I've long thought that the decrease in Apollo Hoax discussions is a sign that there progress of a sort is being made. Most of the hard work in debunking hoax theories has already been done, so when a new HB poster shows up it's an easy matter to just reiterate what has already been written.
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Post by echnaton on Sept 24, 2007 14:05:12 GMT -4
These things seem to come into and go out of fashion. Apollo was over before a very large number of internet participants were born. The story is old and the hoax claims are old. There is always something more novel for hoax proponents to move onto that will attract more attention. As with clothing fashions the old will one day become new again and interest will pick up when a new generation of ignorance comes of age, something that happens pretty fast. But it will only ever be a new way to mix and match old forms of misunderstanding.
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Post by Ginnie on Sept 25, 2007 16:21:57 GMT -4
I must admit the continuing religious discussions are a bit of a mystery to me. ;Why here?is the question that comes to mind.
Most of the religious discussions are done by only four or five people.
Where are the other hundreds of members posting about something else?
I think the religious topics seem more pronounced because of a vacuum created by a lack of Hoax/Apollo threads.
I didn't participate in the General Discussion and Beyond Belief areas for quite awhile after I joined here. That wasn't what I was looking for when I joined. After I took a look I found the threads fascinating.
What is good is that I've found all participants intelligent and for the most part do their homework before posting.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Sept 25, 2007 16:54:26 GMT -4
It's a lack of anything else worth while discussing, the CTs have been very quiet lately and so Religion and Politics have been cropping up as substitutes.
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Post by Ginnie on Sept 25, 2007 17:05:34 GMT -4
Yeah, where is Moonman or Spongebob or Rocky when you need 'em to liven things up.
Oh yeah, banned.
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Post by Jason on Sept 25, 2007 18:14:11 GMT -4
Which is of course the problem with banning them. No more Apollo Hoax Believers, no more discussions on whether Apollo was faked or not. If only they could obey the forum rules while discussing Apollo...
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Post by PhantomWolf on Sept 25, 2007 19:37:21 GMT -4
Yeah, and the courtiers of King Canute thought he could command the tide to stop too. |
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Post by homobibiens on Sept 25, 2007 19:41:12 GMT -4
Yeah, and the courtiers of King Canute thought he could command the tide to stop too. He could command the tide to stop. |
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