Why is this forum attracting so few new members?

[OH MY WORLD!]

Leo is probably right.

[SusanDoris]

I wonder if it is because of all this twitter stuff? On the other two forums I go to new members are few. Perhaps there is just a natural lull in forum discussion on the internet. We who got to know each other on the BBC board share a strong inclination to keep in touch with old friends, and I for one do not want to miss what good writers say, so even if there are only one or two topics that I choose to post on, I do not want to leave!It's a pity bluehillside seems to have gone? 

[Hope]

Could it be anything to do with the fact that many people feel uncomfortable discussing religion regardless of their faith positions.

[Ricky Spanish]

It's a pity bluehillside seems to have gone? 

And after the mods went to the trouble of disabling Karma again to stop his panties from bunching too.

[Nearly Sane]

I miss the glory days when we were the subject of discussions and presentations in Welsh Working Men's clubs

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Maybe because they see us all as a bunch of losers who keep going round in circles. 

Post of the week......Right on the money.

[Ricky Spanish]

I miss the glory days when we were the subject of discussions and presentations in Welsh Working Men's clubs

And the PoTW prize was a trip to the Bahamas.

[Andy]

I think a big reason is because it is such a nightmare ball ache to register here now. I re-registered last year and I had to go through the facebook page for them to understand that I was trying to register and that I wasn't one of the hundreds of bots they dealt with every week.

[Nearly Sane]

I miss the glory days when we were the subject of discussions and presentations in Welsh Working Men's clubs

And the PoTW prize was a trip to the Bahamas.

Ah yes, I remember the week we won it jointly and Senga the cocktail waitress at The Bahamas Lounge in Billericay was rushed off her feet.

[Rhiannon]

I think a big reason is because it is such a nightmare ball ache to register here now. I re-registered last year and I had to go through the facebook page for them to understand that I was trying to register and that I wasn't one of the hundreds of bots they dealt with every week.

You probably have a point. I reckon Gordon checks and blocks somewhere between twenty and thirty spammers a day. It's so easy to end up on a blacklist at somewhere like spamhaus - if you've ever had an opt-in mailing list on a blog for example. Sometimes we spot one that looks legit and then turns out to be a bot.

[Nearly Sane]

I think a big reason is because it is such a nightmare ball ache to register here now. I re-registered last year and I had to go through the facebook page for them to understand that I was trying to register and that I wasn't one of the hundreds of bots they dealt with every week.

You probably have a point. I reckon Gordon checks and blocks somewhere between twenty and thirty spammers a day. It's so easy to end up on a blacklist at somewhere like spamhaus - if you've ever had an opt-in mailing list on a blog for example. Sometimes we spot one that looks legit and then turns out to be a bot.

We are all bots just some of us are looking at the  stars

[BashfulAnthony]

Maybe because they see us all as a bunch of losers who keep going round in circles. 

Post of the week......Right on the money.

Anybody looking in here will soon realise that there is little scope for debate:  it's just atheists condemning, with little or no realistic give and take.  In short the place is sterile, and all but moribund.

[Owlswing]

Maybe because they see us all as a bunch of losers who keep going round in circles. 

Post of the week......Right on the money.

Anybody looking in here will soon realise that there is little scope for debate:  it's just atheists condemning, with little or no realistic give and take.  In short the place is sterile, and all but moribund.

I regtret that what you say is, to a large extent, correct.

OK, I rarely look at the vast majority of topics, Christianity, Islam, Jewish, sports, have little or no attraction and alot of threads descend into prove it/disprove it spirals or exchanges in quote-mining.

The restricted numbers on these boards result in far too many threads becoming repeats of dozens of other threads with the same protagonists going over the same old ground.

It is a great pity that so many of the old Beeb R and E population are no longer around or contactable.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

So..........The forum feels like '' A conversation had''?

[BashfulAnthony]

The younger people are all into the various social media sites.  This forum relies on older people, with little new to say.  As well as that, there isn't time to be on here much if you are into Twitter, etc.

[Rhiannon]

Could it be that in some weird way we actually enjoy each others' company?

[jeremyp]

I miss the glory days when we were the subject of discussions and presentations in Welsh Working Men's clubs

And the PoTW prize was a trip to the Bahamas.

What does that stand for? Piss off TW?

[jeremyp]

Maybe because they see us all as a bunch of losers who keep going round in circles. 

Post of the week......Right on the money.

Anybody looking in here will soon realise that there is little scope for debate:  it's just atheists condemning, with little or no realistic give and take.  In short the place is sterile, and all but moribund.

And yet here you are, always ready with an insult.

[BashfulAnthony]

Maybe because they see us all as a bunch of losers who keep going round in circles. 

Post of the week......Right on the money.

Anybody looking in here will soon realise that there is little scope for debate:  it's just atheists condemning, with little or no realistic give and take.  In short the place is sterile, and all but moribund.

And yet here you are, always ready with an insult.

Please see, M41.

[Ricky Spanish]

Maybe because they see us all as a bunch of losers who keep going round in circles. 

Post of the week......Right on the money.

Anybody looking in here will soon realise that there is little scope for debate:  it's just atheists condemning, with little or no realistic give and take.  In short the place is sterile, and all but moribund.

Maybe because they see us all as a bunch of losers who keep going round in circles. 

Post of the week......Right on the money.

Anybody looking in here will soon realise that there is little scope for debate:  it's just atheists condemning, with little or no realistic give and take.  In short the place is sterile, and all but moribund.

OK.

When are you gonna leave.

So the rest of us can have a decent conversation about the fallacies between the original texts of Paulane theology, and how Mark and Matthew contradict his version of salvation and how Paul dictated Christianity to his followers as portrayed in his Greek centric letters in complete contrast to the writers of the later 'gospel'?

[Rhiannon]

I'm always learning stuff on here.

[BashfulAnthony]

Maybe because they see us all as a bunch of losers who keep going round in circles. 

Post of the week......Right on the money.

Anybody looking in here will soon realise that there is little scope for debate:  it's just atheists condemning, with little or no realistic give and take.  In short the place is sterile, and all but moribund.

Maybe because they see us all as a bunch of losers who keep going round in circles. 

Post of the week......Right on the money.

Anybody looking in here will soon realise that there is little scope for debate:  it's just atheists condemning, with little or no realistic give and take.  In short the place is sterile, and all but moribund.

OK.

When are you gonna leave.

So the rest of us can have a decent conversation about the fallacies between the original texts of Paulane theology, and how Mark and Matthew contradict his version of salvation and how Paul dictated Christianity to his followers as portrayed in his Greek centric letters in complete contrast to the writers of the later 'gospel'?

Your post exactly shows why nobody joins up here anymore.

[Ricky Spanish]

Your reply shows that you have no idea what I'm referring to..

Anyone else care to enlighten them??

[BashfulAnthony]

Your reply shows that you have no idea what I'm referring to..

Anyone else care to enlighten them??

I don't think anybody cares.

[Harrowby Hall]

I think that the attitudes of some self-described christians on this forum differ little from those found in medieval times when heresies were being rooted out and heretics put to death. They treat atheism as some kind of heresy instead of just being a rational alternative to credulity.

 Slaughter the lot. God will recognise his own.