He will continue his purge his website of this “vicious element”. If only there were a similar system of autocratic control on humanity which could make them behave in a way that Dawkin's likes. What ever happened to the Catholic Church? (Tech Eye)

Death of Dawkins forum?
One of the brightest and best atheist forums on the Internet has gone into meltdown (Ship of Fools)

"Regardless, there’s a certain unfortunate irony that a forum bearing Richard Dawkins’ name which evolved into a complicated and spectacular entity is now threatened with extinction because an intelligently designed forum has been created to replace it.” (Avenagelism)

I hope that Richard Dawkins corrects this, and at least apologizes to the web volunteers that gave his site so many unpaid hours, but he appears to have dug in with Josh Timonen on this, and in the process he has shown himself capable of being both imperious and callous: what he writes is important; what forum contributors write is “small.” Perhaps it’s true. The average person has always been disposable. Sometimes somebody from the elite classes has to remind us of this. (Prometheus Unbound)

Also, bluntly, if Prof Dawkins doesn't make a very strong effort to fix this - and counteract the impression that he doesn't care for all the people who have rallied to his cause over the last several years - then i) his leadership of same is over and ii) the cause he has been promoting for so long has been grievously hindered. (Eliziphanian)

Aca wrote:new humanist has an blog entry too, disclosing the real reasons for RDF forums demise

http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2010/02/ ... eason.html

DanDare wrote:Why oh why are all the "official" news outlets taking the "Richard stood up for his rights" line without any real research?

DanDare wrote:Why oh why are all the "official" news outlets taking the "Richard stood up for his rights" line without any real research?

DanDare wrote:Traffic on rd.net has taken a dive. Will it go back up?

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/richarddawkins.net

locutus7 wrote:

DanDare wrote:Traffic on rd.net has taken a dive. Will it go back up?

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/richarddawkins.net

I suspect his site will attract new converts (or is that deconverts) and continue to attract theists looking to clash with the symbol of atheism. But I don't see such a tightly controlled site burgeoning these days. It is human nature to want to interact, even on science fora.