Comments on: Richard Dawkins’ Foundation Forum Self Immolates

By: Telegraph invents comparative degrees of atheism. Dawkins = “athiest” | Online Journalism Blog

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:30:07 +0000

[...] is rushing to catch up with a “religion” story that the Times got hold of first when blogger Chris Wilkins tipped them off (and updated later). Ruth Gledhill already had an interview with Richard Dawkins done before it [...]

By: Richard Dawkins is now a Mullah? « Mohammed Abbasi

Richard Dawkins is now a Mullah? « Mohammed Abbasi — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:47:35 +0000

[...] Wilkins, who has blogged about the row, told me yesterday that one of his acquaintances described the closing of the forum as [...]

By: The Richard Dawkins Foundation net forum (RDF) self-destructs -- yet another big atheist board immolates itself - The Heathen Hub

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:21:52 +0000

[...] it. There is too an op-ed Eureka blog post by Hannah Devlin, also of Times Online, and a blog post by Chris Wilkins. *** For further information: The RDF members are all gathering over at Rationalia, another web [...]

By: DannyFromTower

DannyFromTower — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:05:32 +0000

The moderators did not undertake this. The employed site administrator informed the moderators (all volunteers) that they were no longer needed and should not cause trouble by dissenting or helping the rest to move. Any that did had their account closed and their entire posting history deleted.

Many of the moderators were the most positive and professional contributors to the data built up at the site. Remember this was not as trivial as a blog, where old articles and their comments dissappear into obscurity. Much of the posts on the site where kept as “stickies” because they were considered very valuable for science, reason and education purposes.