My New Forum - God Chat

[tbpew]

Originally Posted by Rico

I think it's a good idea to have a safe place for new converts to go and post. At first, however, I thought you guys were going to end up signing GNC's death warrant with the changes you had in mind. I hope things go well for you there.

yeah, I am generally pretty much a "glass half full" kinda guy, but I am not sure the 'newbie-safe zone' is able to generate enough general content to keep a visitor engaged long enough, and deep enough, with an online community. Attention spans are short in general, but when dealing with electronic-discussion....the attention span drops to just plain 'silly-short'.

The Godchat room gives another management option for 'Rens-raiders' to use in their approach with the larger GNC community.

The balance is tricky and challenging.

I applaud their efforts and am confident it will serve to supply another empirical data point for those of us who have a well-developed love/hate relationship with the online dynamic among apostolic-leaning brethren (and MOW).

[Rico]

Originally Posted by tbpew

yeah, I am generally pretty much a "glass half full" kinda guy, but I am not sure the 'newbie-safe zone' is able to generate enough general content to keep a visitor engaged long enough, and deep enough, with an online community.

The Godchat room gives another management option for 'Rens-raiders' to use in their approach with the larger GNC community.

The balance is tricky and challenging.

I applaud their efforts and am confident it will serve to supply another empirical data point for those of us who have a well-developed love/hate relationship with the online dynamic among apostolic-leaning brethren.

The part I don't understand is exactly how they plan on helping new converts without allowing them to be exposed to controversial doctrines. We can't even agree on when a person is saved, let alone the deeper issues pertaining to Christianity.

[John Atkinson]

Originally Posted by Rico

The part I don't understand is exactly how they plan on helping new converts without allowing them to be exposed to controversial doctrines. We can't even agree on when a person is saved, let alone the deeper issues pertaining to Christianity.

Actually it is more of a protecting them from controversial issues, when they get stable we will just send them here.

[John Atkinson]

Originally Posted by tbpew

The balance is tricky and challenging.

I applaud their efforts and am confident it will serve to supply another empirical data point for those of us who have a well-developed love/hate relationship with the online dynamic among apostolic-leaning brethren (and MOW).

Why thank ya. Part of the plan is to use God Chat as a place to send people who would normally get banned on the GNC.

We like giving options.....

The balance...eh, I really can juggle.....