Date Posted:09:57:25 09/17/04 Fri Author: Chris Subject: Re: one board with multi language capacity In reply to:
Nick T.
's message, "one board with multi language capacity" on 09:36:57 09/17/04 Fri
Paul Laska (now CMI) once made a very nice discussion board which was multilanguage (English, German, Russian, Korean). It was thought as a community for all reform minded UBF members and ex members. But - though technically and artificially nice - the board was a flop, and after a few weeks or months it was completely closed because it did not fit into the policy of CMI any more. Once they separated from UBF, they had no desire to discuss anything, and to mentally process the past, they just want to operate in the old way of UBF, which is incompatible with open talk, discussion, information and education. But even before the board was closed, it was suffering from the problems I already mentioned. Another case is the German discussion forum at http://forum.ubf-reform.de. Nobody uses it, for the reasons stated. And, by the way, recently Truth seeker opened his off topic board at http://www.voy.com/183054/ for all issues that don't fit here. The problem is not a lack of boards. The problem is a lack of a community which is willing to discuss openly and reasonably.
