Intrepid wrote:In truth, most of the religious threads are started by the non-religious.
That's nonsense. Going back to A2K's start in 2002, there are around 1400 topics in the Spirituality & Religion forum. Well over half that total has been tallied in the past 12 months, with a clear minority of those topics having been started by antireligionists. Over the past year, the site membership has shown a marked increase of apparent religionists, particularly those whose postings indicate they are Christian religionists, and who's posts, BTW, comprise a solid majority of all the past year's worth of posts to the Spirituality and Religion forum. A common tenor of those postings indicates the displeasure Christian Religionists take at being challenged to substantiate their assertions and validate their propositions.
husker wrote:Just reflect on this for a few minutes - CDK and company has made this site such that google picks up on topics pretty fast - in the search engine world. So now add the abundant quanity of topics for religion and many people out in the cyber world search for religious discussions - wham bam - influx
Bingo
Intrepid wrote:Setanta wrote:Intrepid wrote:In truth, most of the religious threads are started by the non-religious.
Horsie poop . . .
Is that one of your off the cuff responses, or have you actually checked. I beg to differ.....
Dunno if Set checked or not, or how diligently if he did, but I just spent good bits of a few hours at it, from a variety of approaches.
dlowan wrote:kickycan wrote:There has been an influx of very religious people lately. It's annoying as hell, ain't it?
Yes.
I blame it on the skill Craven has with search engine optimization (and I wonder if some of 'em brung their friend from christian sites).
Data mining turns up strong evidence that is the case - chasing down usernames, members' listed favorite websites in their A2K profiles and websites cited or otherwise mentioned in posts, subject and/or titles of topics, recurrance of distinctive phrases, and so forth turn up unambiguous correlation with the increase in religionist activity here and members posting to other religionist forums, groups and blogs. Explicit and implicit references to A2k/Able2Know on such other venues has increased exponentially over the past year as well.
