CFI Forums

Why is Occam a moderator?

2007-12-16T18:03:13-05:00

At every turn he belittles and mocks the membership. I don’t even dare post here for fear of his embarrassing tirades.

Why is he tolerated by the administration? Is it a family thing? I’m a f’ing Mensan and I don’t even feel like I can participate here, which is a real shame.

Thanks for a fantastic podcast. I’ll stick to that.

view new posts search function

2008-04-26T02:25:31-05:00

THe <subject> does not return all the new posts. I have noticed this a few times over the last few months. I use this function a lot so I would appreciate it if it could be fixed.

Ta very much,

Ski.

I like the forum software - is it commercially available?

2008-04-06T15:26:09-05:00

Hi,

I’d like to recommend this forum software to a group. Who codes it, where can it be bought?

thanks

Martin

PS: Especially like the formating options, the possibility for entry authors to edit posts later, and the email notification. BTW, if it’s not a proprietary system I would find it good practice to acknowledge the underlying software by stating its name somewhere ("powered by").

Four Reasons Why CFI Forums are Dissapointing, with CorrespondingTMany Suggestions for their Improvement

2008-04-03T21:00:52-05:00

I hesitate to post this-don’t want to seem school-marmish-and will anyone even read it anyway- but WTF: in the interests of improving something that is good but could be so much better:

1. Many of the threads have been hijacked by a) well-meaning(?) ideologues with a single and extraneous point to make or b) religious enthusiasts of the biblical prophesy variety, or c) conspiracy theorists. These people all have one thing in common: a lot of free time to take over a forum.
Suggestion: clearly deranged or narcissistic posters are gently urged by moderators to reform or remove themselves from the thread.
2. Many of the posts are ridiculously long - and directed to another individual poster ("Hey Anaxamander- in my last post I told you to ...."). Unless you’ve been following the thrust and parry between these two the whole exercise becomes exceedingly tedious. And many of these private discussions are off-topic anyway.
Suggestion: posters should make declarative, jargon-free (if possible) statements/arguments that will be intelligible to most readers of the thread-- and brevity is the soul of wit.
3. The boundaries between different thread topics are necessarily imprecise- but many posters make NO these effort to stay on topic.
Suggestion: off-topic posting is gently discouraged once it becomes an impediment to communication. Not sure how to do this- should the moderators be doing more? (do they have a life?).
4. The number and frequency of posters is way too small. Come on people! These are in many ways the key intellectual questions of our day, and there aren’t that many fora like CFI. I can’t believe days can go by between posts on “secularism v. religion” or many other threads. I have to assume that problems 1), 2), and 3) above are partly to blame and are turning off many potential posters.
Suggestion: keep it short, to the point and make the discussion flow. Our collective mind is strong.

Visitor Statistics

2008-03-11T09:19:51-05:00

The Visitor Statistics section doesn’t seem to be working. (The forum now feels like an episode from the Twilight Zone: it’s freaking me out! )

Email notifications

2007-08-06T14:42:22-05:00

Is there any way for me not to get an email notification whenever someone responds to a thread I’m in by default, and not to get an email notification when I get a PM?

Search field doesn’t work

2007-12-28T20:19:45-05:00

My searches don’t yield results for things that they should. Even for things that had yielded results in the past.

How do I post a picture?

2007-12-04T09:22:44-05:00

I keep trying to attach it and a message keeps coming up that says the system is not able to take any attachments at this time. Is it even the correct method to “attach” the picture?

strange: system does not count my posts

2007-09-04T15:16:27-05:00

I just noticed that my post counter is stuck at 42, and has been for quite a while, regardless of whether I post replies or new topics. It’s not important to me but perhaps it’s a symptom of something of interest to the system admin.
Martin

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2007-11-02T20:15:46-05:00