This thread is an open discussion of how our forums are designed. Every single member is welcome to participate in this discussion. But please try to offer CLEAR and constructive suggestions and feedback. Please stick around and participate in this ongoing discussion. If you make a suggestion return to see what other people thought of your suggestion. This will be a discussion that talks about the pros and cons of each idea.

The goal of this thread is to look at ALL of our forums and address these questions:

Do we currently have our forums in the right categories? Categories we currently use are Community Forums, ...Read More...

If anyone emails or private messages me between now and Monday, February 15th I won't be able to reply. I'm going on an annual cold-weather camping trip and I won't have my laptop with me. See you next week.

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People are pissed off on the Richard Dawkins forums at RichardDawkins.net

Actually, they are pissed off in their own personal homes and not literally on the forums. They can't even post on the forums right now as Richard Dawkins made the executive decision to shut the forums down. The forums are now read-only.

According to the below post by Richard Dawkins he does plan to bring back a more formal article posting system that subjects each new article to moderation prior to publication. The new system will use tags and other nice bells and whistles and I'm sure this change will indeed clean up the site quite a bit.

But what happens to the tens of thousands of posts that are currently on the forums? People have poured their hearts and souls into those posts. I imagine there are many people with thousands of posts on topics ranging from evolutionary theory to philosophy to current events. What will happen to all of that personal writing? From what I'm reading it will be trashed.

No wonder people are losing their minds. I think Richard Dawkins is making a huge mistake. Those people are his fans and to toss his fans writing in the garbage can is disrespectful and just plain wrong and mean. I get it. Some people were saying some pretty rotten things and those people should be ashamed of themselves. But to punish thousands of people  ...Read More...