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Originally Posted by Newman
Stmatt- One of the best things about the forum was that Bro. Yohe was using it more or less like a think tank.
He invited people with substance behind their opinions to write articles that were in fact "peer reviewed" on the board. This does not happen anywhere else in our Apostolic circles so far as I know.
The Pentecostal Herald avoids any real debate or thought-provoking articles, contininuing to only allow what speaks the party line. Pentecostal Publishing House only prints books that line up with the manual.
Bro. Yohe was interested in ideas of whatever stripe so long as they were articulated well and had substance to them. Opinions off the top of one's head and and/or unexamined traditional rhetoric wouldn't make a good article for the forum and Jim Yohe knew that.
His vision made for interesting reading and lively debate as we dug into the topic; and drew in quality posters.
It would be good to have articles again. Peer review is something that is sorely lacking in most circles that think we must all speak with the same voice.  |
I was one of the first to be on Bro Yohe's forum...I think.
I'll tell you one difference. I actually worried about getting banned... I don't think he would have allowed half of what we've become. Maybe he would, we just didn't get the opportunity to see. I know Bro Yohe even banned himself once. He was a stickler for the lines he did draw and when he crossed it himself...he gave himself a temp ban as far as posting opinion.
Newman is right. Bro Yohe's articles were there, then he invited others. He had writers from Newman to Kansas Preacher on the hook to write. We might have vehemently disagreed but we respected each other...and if we didn't we got dumped.
I will say this. You can't recreate the old fcf. There is too much disrespect already and no one will write an article and put it out as fodder for ridicule.
There are very few posters who will attempt anything of substance here. I come here for the banter and to see if there is anything noteworthy, but I save my views for safer climes.
FCF was growing rapidly at the time of Bro Yohe's death. Yet, I do believe it still had the same flavor and discipline as when it was smaller.
I think the only way it can be recreated is with a more tightly controlled environment...and I doubt that many here want that to happen. Say what you want...Bro Yohe was as firm and hard about how he wanted his forum to be as the administration of CAF or Goodnewscafe. He wanted more diversity...but he rode herd as the strong-armed segundo with a quick triggered ban button. It was fun....