So what's teh genealogy of....`

[Sauron]

...talkfreethought.org?

I see some old IIDB names on there; some of the same old people riding their same tired hobbyhorses; etc.

Who has that handy-dandy chladystic tree of the forum evolution?

[BrotherMan]

It makes me a little sad none of the offshoots have the true bravery to continue the proud tradition of ~~Elsewhere~~.

[Corona688]

elsewhere was mostly pointless but did sometimes shine a little. Like when members of other forums would gather there since it was the one place they could speak their minds when neither polarity of II nor CF would accept them.

[lisarea]

If it weren't for a couple mentions of current events, you could have convinced me that was a time capsule.

And there's at least one participant there I'm not entirely convinced isn't a bot.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Sauron

Who has that handy-dandy chladystic tree of the forum evolution?

lpetrich. The post you require is So this is where everyone went to. - Page 2 - Freethought Forum - referenced here: So what's the deal with all the freethinker forums? - Freethought Forum

And the thread for people who've forgotten is Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. - Freethought Forum

[Sauron]

Originally Posted by JoeP

lpetrich. The post you require is So this is where everyone went to. - Page 2 - Freethought Forum - referenced here: So what's the deal with all the freethinker forums? - Freethought Forum

And the thread for people who've forgotten is Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. - Freethought Forum

Thanks.

I checked all four graphs; for me, they say "Service Unavailable". Can anyone else see anything?

[Corona688]

They're all gone, and the page blocked the wayback machine, so, gone for good.

[Corona688]

Originally Posted by lisarea

If it weren't for a couple mentions of current events, you could have convinced me that was a time capsule.

And there's at least one participant there I'm not entirely convinced isn't a bot.

"Sir, you are employing a double negative."

[lisarea]

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"Sir, I am employing a litote."

[Corona688]

It might be useful to include in a graph which forums are still surviving. I'm sure some must have gone under by now.

[Corona688]

And so saying, I found somewhere else it had been posted, which actually includes that:

http://lpetrich.org/Pix/IIDB/IIDB_Family.png

Funny name for a web site. Who would have thought to look there?

[JoeP]

lpetrich is still active here. I've PMed him.

[livius drusus]

So they split FRDB into two separate forums, one for Biblical crit, one for everything else? I mean, I never had a very high opinion of the unhinged incompetents IIDB gave their database to, but that has to be the most pointless move of all time.

[Ymir's blood]

Fundies Say... is still active, having been updated as recently as today.

[Ymir's blood]

So does anyone remember fondly when IIDB dissidents would show up here to post about how much the parent site sucked and how the admins were all fascists?

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Me neither

[Corona688]

I think we became their ~elsewhere~ for a while. We certainly got a lot of its regulars.

[Sauron]

I found the archives, but they are not searchable, except via Google.

http://bcharchive.org/2/thearchives/....html?t=130429

[lpetrich]

Originally Posted by JoeP

lpetrich is still active here. I've PMed him.

Thanx. Anything that any of you might want to know about all this history?

Originally Posted by livius drusus

So they split FRDB into two separate forums, one for Biblical crit, one for everything else? I mean, I never had a very high opinion of the unhinged incompetents IIDB gave their database to, but that has to be the most pointless move of all time.

That splitting off was due to the shutting down of BC&H there, and that was due to the misbehavior of certain people in that forum. Unfortunately, they did not take corrective action soon enough, like suspending or banning the bigger troublemakers.

Peter Kirby's BC&H forum is thus yet another refugee board.

[livius drusus]

Classic. Good to see that they don't even need a board of directors obsessed with its own putative reputation to make the most reckless, self-defeating and cretinous choices possible.

[Corona688]

Last I heard, II was still being run by SOME board members, just not ALL of them. Correct me if I'm wrong but I remember widespread consternation over it splitting and still not even being free of its chains to "the board"...

[JoeP]

Webkind will not be free until the last board member has been strangled with the entrails of the last troll.

[Corona688]

Who the hell was "Troll Hunter", anyway, will we ever know?

[Sauron]

LOL hinduwoman is still there, on her tiresome rampage against all things Muslim. While ignoring child brides, suttee, the appalling discrimination of India's caste system, bride burning and acid attacks common among Hindus.


I tried to point out this glaring hypocrisy several times, only to be told that

(a) it didn't apply to her, because she was a True Hindu and the rest of them were not, and thus she shouldn't have to answer for their behavior (the "no true Hindu" fallacy);

(b) and besides, eevil Moooslims are eevil.

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by Corona688

Who the hell was "Troll Hunter", anyway, will we ever know?

Adam knows, but he's not telling. The Troll Hunter omerta' is inviolable to this day.