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Other Categories => Controversial Issues => Non Christian Perspective => Topic started by: DavidGYoung on May 20, 2023, 05:32:56 AM

Title: Clarification, please.
Post by: DavidGYoung on May 20, 2023, 05:32:56 AM
Is this board, Non-Christian Perspective, the only one which the administrators permit non-Christians to post on?
Title: Re: Clarification, please.
Post by: Athanasius on May 20, 2023, 05:29:54 PM
Is this board, Non-Christian Perspective, the only one which the administrators permit non-Christians to post on?

If you're asking for permission, I'm not concerned about where you post. The intent with that 'rule' (as far as I understand it), is to try to prevent every topic from becoming an apologetics exercise, argument, or worse. As long as we can avoid that, feel free to engage.
Title: Re: Clarification, please.
Post by: DavidGYoung on May 21, 2023, 03:11:09 AM
OK. Thanks for the explanation.
Title: Re: Clarification, please.
Post by: Fenris on May 21, 2023, 01:53:04 PM
Hi, resident Jewish person here. I post everywhere. I just save my posts that could be viewed as critical of Christianity for "Non- Christian perspective".
Title: Re: Clarification, please.
Post by: DavidGYoung on May 27, 2023, 03:23:58 AM
Incidentally, why is this board listed under a category named 'Child boards'?
Title: Re: Clarification, please.
Post by: Athanasius on May 27, 2023, 04:05:52 AM
Incidentally, why is this board listed under a category named 'Child boards'?

Controversial Issues is the parent board; Non Christian Perspective is the child board.
Title: Re: Clarification, please.
Post by: DavidGYoung on May 27, 2023, 04:31:23 AM
Why not call it 'offspring' instead?
Title: Re: Clarification, please.
Post by: Athanasius on May 27, 2023, 04:45:10 AM
Why not call it 'offspring' instead?

For two reasons:

- This is inherited SMF terminology, https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Child_board.
- "Offspring" board is just weird.

An alternative would be something like 'sub-board', 'subforum', etc. But I'm not in a rush to change something that works.
Title: Re: Clarification, please.
Post by: DavidGYoung on May 27, 2023, 06:05:53 AM
It's just that the current title looks a bit like, let's just say something you would expect to find on the dark net.
Title: Re: Clarification, please.
Post by: Athanasius on May 27, 2023, 06:28:58 AM
I'll keep that in mind
Title: Re: Clarification, please.
Post by: RabbiKnife on May 27, 2023, 07:50:11 AM
It's just that the current title looks a bit like, let's just say something you would expect to find on the dark net.

Spend much time on the dark net, do you? You
Title: Re: Clarification, please.
Post by: DavidGYoung on May 27, 2023, 12:06:00 PM
I don't know if any of you heard it, but a while back BBC Radio 4 had a comedy series called Bigipedia. It was a parody of Wikipedia (itself a parody of a serious encyclopaedia). One section was called 'Bigipedia Kids' with a disclaimer that ran something along the line of "Bigipedia Kids is no longer called 'Hanging at the school gates' due to an ongoing legal case in the High Court and the previous title 'underage fun' has been the subject of a copyright infringement."

Whether it is true that paediatricians were subject to vigilante attacks or whether that is an urban myth, there are enough Daily Mail articles doing the rounds to call into question the terminology of internet forums.

Title: Re: Clarification, please.
Post by: Athanasius on May 29, 2023, 06:44:49 AM
Let's consider this set of questions, clarified.