[greyfoxx39]

There seems to be a practice of some RF posters ignoring your warnings on "making it personal" and using the same language in subsequent threads.

Can we now look to these posters and the "thin-skinned" posters being told to leave the thread as in the past?

There is also a marked increase in new RF posters using obscenities in the RF, including acronyms denoting obscenities. I would suggest forbidding that be a part of your rules.

There have been several FReepers banned due to accusations of others in the RF either being "nazis", suggesting nazi behavior and especially accusations that some FReepers want to "see members of a certain faith killed". I suggest that a warning that these practices could affect a FReeper's membership be made a permanent part of the RF rules.

Thanks for this thread and your exemplary monitoring of the FR during the past few years. It's much appreciated.

[Religion Moderator]

When you see an inappropriate post on the Religion Forum, send me a Freepmail, ping me - or if it is urgent, make an abuse report.

Sometimes I just post warnings to discourage ad hominems - but if the post is particularly flammable, I will pull it. Accusing any group of believers or anti-believers of a crime (e.g. 'they want to see ... killed' or 'they're Nazis') IS urgent.

Finally, any Religion Forum post which contains potty language - or references to potty language - will be pulled as soon as I see it.

If you are new to the Religion Forum and wonder where your post went, it may well be that you used a word like "crap" or "BS". If you need to see the post again to reword it, let me know by Freepmail and I'll send it to you.

[metmom]

The RM does an awesome and often thankless job.

I can just see him coming home and logging onto FR and sighing, wondering what he’s going to encounter THIS time.

One point I’d like to make is that disagreeing with another belief system is not necessarily *hate*. What I’ve seen too often is that pejorative is too freely thrown about and at someone who is pointing out what they see as errors in another belief system.

It most often occurs when a member of said belief system has nothing left in his arsenal to contest what is being pointed out, and so resorts to accusations of *hate* to deflect the discussion or discredit the source.

IMO, at that point, one can invoke Godwin’s Law and declare a win.