>>These are treated as if they were occurring behind the closed doors of a church.<<
Yeah, I read the rules when I started seeing those early morning things from Vision. I have a problem with the phrase above becuase of the 800 lb gorilla in the room. Specifically, they are NOT behind closed doors.
What they potentially allow is someone to say anything they want in their “not closed door” area and nobody is allowed to call them on it. No problem, I just ignore the threads. I responded today to a new post on an old thread, but kept it out of the context of the thread itself to obey the rules.
>>Since both of you are “old-timer” Freepers, you may find the open threads more to your liking.<<
That’s been my MO on these. My only concern is that it implies that one really could open an Islamic “devotional” thread and pretty much say whatever they want and the rest of us would be forced to “ignore” it. Without getting into specifics, that sort of thing - but at a much “reduced” level - has sometimes happened in the religious “closed door” threads.
You can’t ignore them because they come up in “recent posts”. Yet you are required to.
Anyway, just sayin’.
I’d love to see a feature where “devotional, etc.” threads did not show up in “recent posts”. But I ramble. I’m done here and will continue to ignore these threads until I think someone actually does cross a line. Then I’ll just post something to the religious moderator in freepmail.
But since the last major software change, Religion Forum posts are served up automatically because the default browse is "everything."
If you do not wish to see RF posts, browse by "News/Activism." When you log back in, the browse will reset to "everything" - so be sure to set it back to "News/Activism."