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Getting more mods wont help.. where i came from we just formed small groups and blocked/ ignored known people who would try to cause discord/conflict between the group... we had a lot of those, and we had no mods, but we kept them in check by just getting most of the people in the group to just ignore the offenders, and to never post on their threads, leaving them to just sit there by themselves.. it worked out pretty well to be honest.. usually what would happen is the ones on ignore would often go and fight with the other offenders because those were the only people they could get a reaction out of. Sometimes they would make new accounts and try us again, but after they show their colors they just get ignored again...
Some people are not who they say they are on this site and they come on only to disrupt, confuse and cause chaos.

Kind of like how if you don't feed a troll they start eating each other?

After 11 months here, I realized that the BDF has serious issues.
Often threads are started that are hijacked by folks who want to teach their doctrine.
They use someone else's thread as a platform to push their personal beliefs.
If that happens to a thread I start, I should have the option to close that thread or at least ask a mod to close it in a reasonable time frame.
I enjoy Bible discussion, that is why I joined, but there is very little on the BDF. It is mostly opinions and assumptions and when you disagree it becomes personal attacks and even questioning the intellect of others.
This may be a harsh statement, but in my opinion, the BDS is a joke and should be eliminated.
There is nothing here for me. It is a waste of my time. It is very depressing.
So yes, I'm gone.

After 11 months here, I realized that the BDF has serious issues.
Often threads are started that are hijacked by folks who want to teach their doctrine.
They use someone else's thread as a platform to push their personal beliefs.
If that happens to a thread I start, I should have the option to close that thread or at least ask a mod to close it in a reasonable time frame.
I enjoy Bible discussion, that is why I joined, but there is very little on the BDF. It is mostly opinions and assumptions and when you disagree it becomes personal attacks and even questioning the intellect of others.
This may be a harsh statement, but in my opinion, the BDS is a joke and should be eliminated.
There is nothing here for me. It is a waste of my time. It is very depressing.
So yes, I'm gone.

After 11 months here, I realized that the BDF has serious issues.
Often threads are started that are hijacked by folks who want to teach their doctrine.
They use someone else's thread as a platform to push their personal beliefs.
If that happens to a thread I start, I should have the option to close that thread or at least ask a mod to close it in a reasonable time frame.
I enjoy Bible discussion, that is why I joined, but there is very little on the BDF. It is mostly opinions and assumptions and when you disagree it becomes personal attacks and even questioning the intellect of others.
This may be a harsh statement, but in my opinion, the BDS is a joke and should be eliminated.
There is nothing here for me. It is a waste of my time. It is very depressing.
So yes, I'm gone.

This place is fine. Ya'll need to just accept that this is the way it is on public forums. This place is actually fairly well self-moderated compared to other forums out there.

I have been to other forums and am well aware of the similarity of heated debates and unrequired blows at each other but only those who are content with the way things are accept the way they are and I cannot do that because the church is in a state where we have forgotten our first love we have forgotten what it means to be Christian we have forgotten what love is and what standing for the truth is.

Instead we are christians by title only we speak of God and teach of him yet barely know him we claim to be love we teach love yet the fruits of love is but a shriveled pear in most hearts and confuse debating and proving ourselves right and attacking others with standing for the truth. This is not what I was taught a Christian is this not what I was taught love is and it's not what I was taught standing for the truth is I refuse to be the average Christian so I cannot accept this is just the way it is.

We may be in the world but we are not of the world so accepting this is just how public forums are cannot reside in our hearts, change is possible even if it seems impossible do you think that Rosa parks just accepted the way things were? do you think Martin Luther King just accepted the way things were? It only takes one heart to make a change it only takes a spark to make the fire burn

pretty much .. the trolls i used to deal with used to sit there for about 16+ hours a day trying to start stuff... when they got put on the ignore list all they could do was sit there and argue with themselves while the rest of us just did our own thing and moved on without them. After a few months they started dropping like flies because i guess it was getting boring for them.

How do we get Mods attention?
I have contacted them 3 times in the last 2 days and they are ignoring me.

Any mod could look at the titles in the BDF & skim through a couple & immediately deal with troublemakers.....

I have been in the BDF & had 8-10 tabs up at the same time, skimming thru them, looking for answers to my posts. It is not that hard.

Perhaps the real answer is the mods have been told to leave the BDF alone. I can't see any other logical explanation.

I've thought about leaving too. I'm not on here as much as I used to be. Some days I just don't see the point.

Getting more mods wont help.. where i came from we just formed small groups and blocked/ ignored known people who would try to cause discord/conflict between the group... we had a lot of those, and we had no mods, but we kept them in check by just getting most of the people in the group to just ignore the offenders, and to never post on their threads, leaving them to just sit there by themselves.. it worked out pretty well to be honest.. usually what would happen is the ones on ignore would often go and fight with the other offenders because those were the only people they could get a reaction out of. Sometimes they would make new accounts and try us again, but after they show their colors they just get ignored again...
Some people are not who they say they are on this site and they come on only to disrupt, confuse and cause chaos.

I have been to other forums and am well aware of the similarity of heated debates and unrequired blows at each other but only those who are content with the way things are accept the way they are and I cannot do that because the church is in a state where we have forgotten our first love we have forgotten what it means to be Christian we have forgotten what love is and what standing for the truth is.

Instead we are christians by title only we speak of God and teach of him yet barely know him we claim to be love we teach love yet the fruits of love is but a shriveled pear in most hearts and confuse debating and proving ourselves right and attacking others with standing for the truth. This is not what I was taught a Christian is this not what I was taught love is and it's not what I was taught standing for the truth is I refuse to be the average Christian so I cannot accept this is just the way it is.

We may be in the world but we are not of the world so accepting this is just how public forums are cannot reside in our hearts, change is possible even if it seems impossible do you think that Rosa parks just accepted the way things were? do you think Martin Luther King just accepted the way things were? It only takes one heart to make a change it only takes a spark to make the fire burn

You know this site has the option to form small group forums. I don't think many people use that option for discussion and bible study.

They are too easy to forget about. People join, then forget they exist and the groups die off. Also I suspect many in the BDF would be unsatisfied with a group of people of the same beliefs. There's no one to yell at and criticize and correct then.

It's not the way the forums are run but the way people who want to see a change respond to others that need to be changed.

If people just get mad and upset and leave because their thread is hijacked then there will never be a change.

Only when God's people are on their knees in prayer (figureatively speaking, I know some with medical problems who can't kneel)...only,through prayer can we see the power of God change lives.

It's not the forum that needs changing but all of us who visit it.

Can we display wisdom from above by treating others with gentleness and love? Yeah some folks make it real hard to love them.