I've been watching some internet stupidity again and it reminds me I wanted to use this place as a bit of a reminder that I do try to hold the locals to some kind of standard.

I don't have a lot of rules. Two really. Don't spam the comments, don't harass those who are quoted. That's not terribly difficult in my estimation, even if it may be somewhat difficult not to charge off and bitch at Ray Comfort or someone from time to time. Lately I've watched the kind of crap that unsourced accusations can generate and it's kept me more diligent than usual in checking quote sources. If someone really said something that dumb, terrifying or amusing we can take some time to point and laugh here, but I ask that is where we leave it when dealing with individuals. We've had some problems with that in the past, and I still work to deal with a few of those problems on a regular basis.

Now, actual activism where people do real work to change the things that lead to the comments we get here, that's a different bird. I would be happy to help advertise or coordinate such things with whatever bit of focus I may have here. That's a legitimate goal with productive means. If you're into that let me know and I'll do what I can to help.

As for my progress on the site, going better than I expected. Writing up the analysis of the indexes gave me a few useful ideas for how to handle the quotes and filters, as it sits we're looking at something about three times faster than the current site for quote access and I should be able to allow for the filters to be used on the specialized pages. Meaning you could pull the fundie top 100 of 2014 if you wanted, or the top 100 of everything regardless of tags all time. Ought to be nice.