Cross

This is a good topic. I moderate a Christian site that has seen it's share of debates, constructive and not. Some people just show up to cause trouble. They try to get a negative reaction out of the members so that the trouble maker can say, "see there, I knew they were fakes, Christianity is no different than other religions". If members and staff do what has been suggested here, then those willing to debate just to aggrivate others will change and in the end the negative debates will be silenced.

Penny

I used to be one another Christian forum website and people just used to jump on each other really bad. And most of it was understandings. It was obvious that who ever was getting ugly had not read the original post correctly and no one ever put their foot down. Sometimes they were just down right name calling!

So, I switched to here. I have to just show my appreciation to the moderators because it can't be easy and for keeping it a Godly place to chat.

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Philippians 4:13, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."

Ephesians 3:13, "I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory."

Banarenth

Anytime a subject that has proven to be highly debated and confrontational comes up, we monitor them VERY closely. But, we don't always act immediately because we do recognize that some subject, while controversial, are also part of our lives as Christians.

If you are genuinely interested in learning the truth, you can post a carefully worded topic in the private discussion area. You will probably prompt one of us to restate that the topic is being closely watched, but we do genuinely look at each and every instance. So yes, there are times when a topic will be immediately discarded, while the same topic will be allowed until it turns into a debate, simply because of what we can discern about the motives of the poster.

You aren't guaranteed to have a topic that never gets locked because everyone gets to participate. There are generally several warnings, one way or another, before a topic is closed.

When in doubt, please feel free to contact the moderator team directly in PM if you have questions about how to present a topic.

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Pastor Gary

I'd also like to remind all of our members to REPORT CONFRONTATIONAL OR DEMEANING POSTS instead of 'mixing it up' with posters. The REPORT BUTTON is located just below the person's name in the small Trangular ICON.

Use THAT Report feature to alert the Moderator Team as to your concerns. It serves no purpose to get into a harmful or degrading debate, when the staff could have taken care of things like this much earlier if you had reported it.

Many thanks.

Willow99

Agreed!
Willow99